Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty 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 March 9
Dave and his new skis at the top of the hill at Cape Smokey
A few weeks ago, while we were skiing at Martock, Ann had some trouble with one of her bindings. She took it into the shop for an adjustment and the guy's eyebrows hit the ceiling; he suggested that it was time to get new skis and bindings. We bought them second hand about 20 years ago so we have done pretty well out of them. Anyway, we took the advice and got ourselves new ones a couple of weeks ago. A couple of days later, we went to Wentworth with our friend Toru tried them out for the first time.
A week ago Tuesday, Ann, David and I went to the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake supper in the church basement.
This week, Ann and I went on a mini-vacation to Cape Breton with Kim and Glen. We left on Monday morning and drove to the chalet we rented at Cabot Shores Wilderness Resort in Indian Brook, arriving mid-afternoon. Kim and Glen arrived shortly after. Ann heated up some potato kale soup that we had brought for dinner along with rolls that I had baked the previous day.
On Tuesday, Ann, Kim and I drove to Cape Smokey for a day of skiing; Glen hurt his shoulder last fall and his doctor said he shouldn't ski, so he amused himself elsewhere. It was a lovely day and the conditions were good. Ann and Kim packed it in after lunch so Glen came to pick them up while I skied for a couple more hours by myself. That evening we ate at The Bistro, the restaurant at the chalet.
On Wednesday, it was warm and wet, so instead of skiing we went on a short hike through the woods and along the shores of Macdonald's Big Pond. In the afternoon, Ann, Kim and Glen went shopping at the chocolate and leather shops just up the road from the chalet. I stayed put and started a jigsaw puzzle that Kim and Glen had brought. When they returned, Kim helped me finish it. That evening was Kim and Glen's turn to make dinner: spaghetti Bolognese.
On Thursday, we packed up and drove home stopping for a walk around Baddeck followed by lunch at The Freight Shed Bistro. We also stopped in at Big Spruce Brewing in Nyanza where I got some beer an Ann bought some T-shirts.
The week before last, Ann started volunteering to complete tax returns at the Dartmouth libraries. The first day was a bit rocky with some technical issues but after that things went better. She will be doing more until the tax season is over.
The moon emerges from totality
On Friday, I was up early to watch the lunar eclipse. It was a beautiful clear night and we had a clear view from start to finish from the front deck. I set up my camera and took a photo every 10 minutes but unfortunately I knocked it out of focus as it approached totality, so I only have decent shots from the beginning and the end.
It has been quite warm over the last few days so bicycling season has begun. On Friday, Ann dropped me in Halifax, then went out to Bedford to play Mahjong. I met Norm and Alex on the Chain of Lakes Trail and we biked out to the Coke plant (where the trail switches to the Beechville-Lakeside-Timberlea Trail) then back to the 5k Café for a coffee where we were met by Pauline. Alex then showed me a good route to ride safely through Halifax to the Macdonald bridge so I could get home. Yesterday, while Ann was making soup for the church's Souper Sunday fundraiser for the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre, I rode along the waterfront trail, up to Portland Estates, then over to Mount Edward, down Breeze to Waverley Rd. Ann met me at the Cottage Café for a coffee before I rode the last little bit home. Today, Ann and I rode to the end of the waterfront trail. She then returned to the church for Lenten study led by an Atlantic School of Theology student who has had a placement at the church. I continued on following a similar route to yesterday, but extending it by riding out to Montague Gold Mines before returning on Waverley Rd.