Category: Family

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...

There are lots of methods of using technology to keep kids safe, from very visible monitors of various kinds to the “secret” ones such as software that lets you find out what your kid (or spouse) is doing online. GPS fleet tracking has been around for a few years...

We had a wonderful Christmas Day – a superb brunch with Sharon, Laura and Randy and then dinner at our place with Steve and Rachel. We had a huge turkey dinner and the fur-kids (4 dogs and 3 cats) were great – very patient even when Rachel starting handing...