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Off The Grid
We're into our third day here at Bob and David's cottage on Lake Kipawa in "la belle Provence" and I have to admit I am suffering from the lack of access to the outside world, either via radio or the Internet. I didn't bring a ham transceiver with me this time, and, of course, there is no cellular service here or any kind of Internet at all.
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D-Day + 69 Years
Assuming my math is correct -- and it often isn't -- it is the 69th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 during the Second World War. As always, when I think about this event, I am amazed and appalled at what those young men went through to take back the European continent from the Nazis.
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Not much to say
Yes, I know. It has been a long, long time since I last made an entry into this blog. Which is stupid, because I pay for this service, and if I'm not going to use it I should give it up. Well, we'll see.
It is a beautiful spring day here in Woodstock. I'm sitting on the front porch listening to the birds twitter and watching the cars drive by - ( Read more... ) -
The Big Trip South 2013
Robbie and I had been looking forward to a trip to Florida for a long time. For his part, he was wiped out from his schoolwork, his job and he needed some time off. For my part I just needed to see the sun and feel the warmth of it for a while.
We had planned to leave on Monday, March 11, 2013, but a problem with the car delayed our departure.
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GTs in Southwester Ontario
Yesterday was a bright and sunny day. I persuaded Robbie to get out of bed and go for a drive down to Port Burrell in order to take a look at the newly installed submarine, the Canadian warship, Ojibwa. It's a big monster, especially sitting on the ground out of its native element. I look forward to getting inside it and perhaps operating the ( Read more... ) -
Second Thoughts on Blogging
It is not just laziness that has kept me from adding to this blog. I have to admit that I am having second thoughts about publishing details of my personal life on the web like this. I don't think I need to go into the reasons why exposing oneself's personal details on the web is a bad idea; everyone has read about this stuff by now.
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Christmas Day 2012
I'm seated by myself in the living room listening to lovely Christmas music on my old a.m. radios. The house is all done up as much is going to be this year - we were a little more restrained than we have been in the past. Mom and Pop Perchard are upstairs getting ready for the arrival of the rest of the family. Robbie is still off working! He was ( Read more... ) -
O, Chrstmas Tree!
As usual, the world did not end today. Those silly Mayans! Not that any serious minded person expected it to. Still, it's always entertaining to see the crazies at work when these issues come up.
There has been some crazy weather out west of us. Minnesota and Wisconsin have gotten dumped with a lot of snow. It looks pretty, but I'm sure the ( Read more... ) -
A Failure to Communicate!
Robbie has put in another full day. It is 11:23 PM and I have been waiting for him for an hour in the living room to come home so that we can go shopping -- or not, depending on how you interpret his messages. I wanted to copy our exchange From the Messages app, but Apple does not allow that, so you'll just have to imagine an exchange that was ( Read more... ) -
It's the Season
Friday was our 13th anniversary! It's hard to believe that we've been together this long, Robbie and I. I guess we've become very comfortable with each other because the anniversary has become no big deal. Robbie had to work and since his days are usually quite long he was not home until almost 10 PM. Then we sat together watching TV when he ( Read more... )