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They're back!
Thursday was St. Patrick's Day. March 17. It was also the day my daughter and her husband got married eight years ago. As I was pondering all this I was looking out my kitchen window and something streaked past my vision. Could it be? Yes it was! A ruby throated hummingbird was feeding on the shrimp plants that surround my kitchen bay windows ( Read more... ) -
Long distance families......
Growing up as the oldest of five sisters and a brother gives you a unique perspective on life. I don’t know what growing up close to my sisters would be like, since I have lived apart from them since I was eighteen. Only sister number three, Diane, lived near me for a few years. She joined me at my college during my senior year and lived nearby ( Read more... ) -
Travel Updates
Additional updates will to added to the end of "Not a Good way to Start a Trip...." as time allows. (-: -
Not-to-be-missed board books......
If you don't know what a board book is, you just don't spend much time with toddlers. Toddlers often love to be read to, but can't resist grabbing at the pages and tearing them. So the solution is books with cardboard covers and pages. Yes, well loved board books will eventually meet destruction, but it takes a lot longer. You also may not know ( Read more... ) -
Not a good way to start a trip.....
In spite of having spent several hours two months ahead of time trying to get the best possible reservations for my three stop trip, I received an e-mail two weeks prior to travel that a flight had been changed and I now would spent 4 hours in the Chicago airport on my way to Canada. This made me miss the first shuttle to Medicine Hat and ( Read more... ) -
Easter memories......
The year was 1961. It was Easter Sunday. I was eleven years old and it was my birthday. I had waited my whole life for this special Easter. You see, I was an Easter baby-born on Easter Sunday. Everyone had always told me that my birthday would only be on Easter every eleven years. This was the year! I was beside myself with excitement ( Read more... ) -
A rare sighting
It was early December. I can’t believe I took the time to read the article. It was concert week for the chorus and much of my list of Christmas duties was unfinished. But reading the article about the snowy owl invasion took my mind off the unfinished list. It seemed these huge white owls from the Arctic were flying south in record numbers and ( Read more... ) -
The Homecoming
It is the evening of November 3, 1984. Every room in the house is lit in readiness. The floors shine; the windows sparkle; even the freshly cut and watered grass in the yard twinkles under the outside lamp. Company is coming-and not just ordinary company. My sister, Diane, and her family are coming from Peru. We have not seen or ( Read more... ) -
On spring, hummingbirds, oak leaves and large trees.....
Spring in our part of the country means several things ( Read more... ) -
Waiting for baby Quinn..... (Updated as new info and time permit)
Yesterday it hit me that I had been gone from home for a whole week. I arrived in Medicine Hat at dinner time on Wednesday (November 7, 2012). The things that needed to be done were a little daunting. Kati's small living room was piled high with gift bags, boxes and baby things. Kati had not yet had the energy to sort and put away the things ( Read more... )