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 February 22
Ann, Jayne and another member of the club whose name we have forgotten at Mount Poley
I left you last time as we arrived in Sussex for a few days skiing at Poley Mountain. The weather was great on Tuesday and Wednesday and we enjoyed great skiing followed by group dinners with the ski club at the All Seasons Inn where we were staying. On Tuesday, after skiing, Ann, Jayne and I went skating at the Waterford Youth Centre which is about a kilometre down the road from the ski hill. It consists of an outdoor rink and a small community hall, just across the river via a covered bridge. When we arrived, the mum's were all inside keeping warm and the kids, all pre-schoolers, were on the rink honing their hockey skills. It was the most Canadian scene I have witnessed for a long time and took me back to my youth playing hockey after school on backyard rinks around our neighbourhood.
On Thursday, there was snow forecast and, since we had tickets for the symphony that evening, we decided to forego skiing that day and get an early start for home. We arrived without problems mid-afternoon and enjoyed Beethoven's Violin Concerto that evening.
The following evening we went to see Cult Play at Neptune about a woman negotiating a lesbian relationship within a cult. Neither of us liked it much.
Since then I have spent a lot of time playing my guitar while watching the Olympics, including suffering through the hockey and curling losses, though we have also been trying to stay active by skating at the Oval and the RBC Centre and walking with the Roadents. Ann has also been keeping busy with all her regular activities: church, volunteering at the food bank, book clubs, etc., etc.
On Tuesday we both went to help prepare the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner. Ann helped set up the tables and I was a pancake cook. However, having donated blood earlier in the day, I began to feel woozy in the heat of the kitchen so passed my flipper on to someone else and went to help set the tables.
On Thursday, as I pulled into a parking space by the Oval, I failed to notice a large chunk of ice which, as I drove over it, ripped off a protective shield on the underside of the car. The shield was attached to the front side panel which was also damaged. I spent Friday on the phone with the insurance people and we we have an appointment tomorrow at a body shop to see how bad it is.