Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty-five 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 January 25
Our lilac bush having trouble coping with the snow
We had a snow storm early last Monday, waking up to about 15 cms of sticky snow that clung to all the trees. There were quite a few power outages but we kept ours. I was just psyching myself up to go out and shovel the drive when our next door neighbour Dave came and did it for us with his snowblower (he claims that he loves using it). Now the polar vortex has descended upon us, as it has over much of the country, bringing a high of −13°C, very cold for these parts. The storm in its wake will be arriving overnight and lasting until Tuesday morning. It is forecast to bring 35 cms of light fluffy snow so we are planning to go skiing on Wednesday.
We were skiing at Wentworth on Friday and at Martock a week ago Tuesday after Ann did her stint at the food bank. The conditions were good both days. We are now gearing up for two weeks of skiing in February: one week at Mont-Comi in Quebec and one week at Poley Mountain near Sussex, New Brunswick.
Ingrid's neighbour Gloria wanted to get Ann's advice on applying for a new job so, last Saturday, we met at Uncommon Grounds, a café in the south end of Halifax. I read the Guardian Weekly while they chatted and then we met Kim, Ingrid and Mike at the Resolutes Club for lunch.
We were at the Resolutes Club again yesterday with our friends Dave and Manon, and Dave and Donna. We are all going on a biking trip around Lac St. Jean in Quebec in August so we got together to discuss the logistics of the trip. Ann and I took the ferry to Halifax and walked up to the Argyle Fine Art Gallery on Barrington St. where we had arranged to meet. They had a show of miniatures including three by one of our biking friends. Ann and I had a quick look around then got a text saying that they were having a coffee at the Bird's Nest Café across the street, so we headed there. After coffee, Ann, Manon and Donna went back to the gallery while the three Daves went across the street to browse in an art supply store (one of the Daves was looking for something to pass the time on an upcoming winter trip). We all then went to the Resolutes Club for lunch after a quick game of pool.
Last Sunday, we went to Vivaldi Meets the Middle East featuring Symphony Nova Scotia baroque ensemble and a now-local Iranian musician on the tar. We both enjoyed it a lot. There was more entertainment for Ann on Tuesday afternoon when she went to see the movie Song Sung Blue with our friend Judy, and then again on Thursday when we went to Neptune to see Mad Madge, a rather strange play about an ambitious woman during the English Reformation in the 17th century.