Category: Family

I just have to show you the beautiful cat that we’re babysitting for a while. Molly was really enjoying the warm morning sun today. 🙂 Edit: Somehow Molly just never left, and became a cherished member of our pack for 10 years, until she died of cancer 🙁...

For the past week, Cathy and I have been babysitting 2 dogs while my son and his partner prepare to move. It’s made for a very busy house! Yesterday morning before heading to the cruise office, I took them all out for a walk/play to put them in a...

I thought it would warm up. Well, it did, but I was busy. “Warm” and “not busy” never did coincide (well, “not busy” never actually occurred). So, at 30 below zero, the Xmas lights went up on the house this afternoon. Next year I’ll get them up in October....

A new TV series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Courage in Red” began on OLN last night. I hadn’t heard about it, but luckily checked my Facebook account and saw a message about it. I encourage everyone with an interest in policing in any form to tune in...

The Okanagan Valley is a superb location to celebrate Thanksgiving (except that Cathy isn’t with me). Just up the hill from my sister’s place is an orchard that really knows how to blend tourism into the business, and yesterday my daughter and grand-daughters and I spent a couple of...

The day has begun – I spent the night at my sister’s and am now back at my parents’ place having coffee while the rest of the world wakes up. I stopped in to see the Kelowna CruiseShipCenters office yesterday afternoon and had an enjoyable visit with the owner...

As of last night I’m in Kelowna for a week visiting family. It’s nowhere near as warm as I’d hoped, but it is sunny – and the Fall Wine Festival is on 🙂 This is what my driveway looked like yesterday as I was getting ready to leave. In...

Summer has arrived!! My kids are making me kinda nuts, though 🙂 When I was in Calgary 3 weeks ago I helped my daughter pick out a new Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, and a few minutes ago my son pulled up on his new Kawasaki KLR650! 🙂 Whoohoo, Daddy needs...

Today was a fun day in town. We dropped the girls off at school and went shopping 🙂 There are a whole lot of things that Whitehorse does very well, but although shopping is a world better than it was a decade ago, it’s still pretty dismal. On our...

I couldn’t live on the Prairies, but I do enjoy visiting. Boring at first glance perhaps, but particularly if you get off on the back roads, there’s a grandness that is very powerful, and there are photo ops everywhere. We made a quick trip out to Drumheller and back...