Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
You can click on the pictures above to get a bit more information about each of us.
Sunday May 25
Tulips in the back yard
A week ago Tuesday, we were up early to get Ann to the airport for a 7am flight to Ottawa. The next day, she and Morgan rented a car and drove to Montreal where, on Thursday, Morgan had top surgery. There were no complications during the operation and they returned on Friday. Ann spent the next week at Morgan's helping with post-operative care. This Thursday, Ann met Ben and went to Renfrew for the night. On Friday afternoon, both Ann and Katy flew back here and I picked them up.
Katy came here for Ingrid's 70th birthday party which was this afternoon at the Halifax Curling Club. It was well attended by many of Ingrid's friends and relatives including her cousin and his daughter who came from Toronto and her brother Paul who came all the way from Germany. Afterwards we had pizza at Ingrid and Mike's so that Ingrid could spend a bit more time with Katy.
While Ann was away, David and I co-existed peacefully at home. I went on some bike rides with the Roadents and Ramblers and, on the days when it wasn't raining, tried to get the garden in shape.
On Friday, I picked up Chapman and we drove to Truro to see John Reischman and the Jaybirds. Our friends Manon and Dave, and James and Erin met us there. John Reischman is a fantastic mandolin player who I have known of since we went to Vancouver in the early 90s and saw him playing with Slavek Hanzlik. The other members of the band were also all really good: it was a great show.