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.
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Sunday March 8
The breakfast area at the Castle Rock Inn
Ann and I spent this week in Cape Breton skiing at Cape Smokey with the Club Ski 30 crowd. We left on Tuesday morning, after getting up early to watch as much as possible of the lunar eclipse, and arrived in Ingonish Ferry at about 4pm having stopped at the Museum of Industry in Stellarton to break up the drive. We stayed at the Castle Rock Country Inn which is about 3kms from the ski hill. Breakfast and dinner were included in our package so we spent all our non-skiing time at the inn.
When we awoke on Wednesday, it was snowing and by the time we arrived at the hill there was about 4–5cms of fluffy powder on top of a hard base. That made conditions really great for the morning; by the afternoon, it had heated up enough that the new snow became heavy and patchy exposing the harder snow beneath. On Thursday and Friday, the hill had been groomed and the conditions were much more consistent. Ann and I skied together for some of the time but also split up and skied with other members of the group who were closer to our abilities. Ann also stopped after lunch while I lasted until the lift stopped on Wednesday and almost as long on Thursday. We only skied until noon on Friday, then headed back home stopping in Baddeck for lunch at Bean There Café, at Big Spruce Brewery to pick up some beer, and at the Whistleberry Market in Greenhill for a few groceries.
This afternoon Ann and I went to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Neptune. We saw it there years ago but Ann claims to have forgotten all about it. Though definitely funny at times, it is not an easy way to spend three hours on a Sunday afternoon.