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.
Wednesday May 19
Fancy tulips in the back yard
Ann and I stayed in Renfrew until Andrew's birthday on May 5. That was a low key affair after the excitement of the party the previous Saturday. There was a pancake breakfast with presents before the kids went off to school. Andrew also got to choose dinner but I've forgotten what it was.
We began the drive home the next day after seeing the boys off on the school bus. We stopped for the night in Rivière du Loup and arrived home in the late afternoon the following day, in time to go to Neptune to see The Ghost of Violet Shaw, a suitably mindless farce set in the 19th century; after driving all day I don't think we could have coped with anything more substantial. The next day we were also up reasonably early to go with Pat and Cindy to a dress rehearsal of the Neon Dreams show with Symphony Nova Scotia. The audience was largely made up of school-kids who got along well with the musicians.
Since then my time has largely been taken up by gardening and biking. I am continuing to dig up grass in the back yard in favour of flower/vegetable beds and there has also been the perpetual weeding. Most of the vegetables are now planted with the exceptions being those that need reasonably warm night-time temperatures: tomatoes, basil and eggplants. Hostas in the front yard have also been moved to the back and replaced by a new rhubarb patch; we'll have to wait a year or two before it bears full fruit.
A bald eagle soaring over the farmland
near Port Williams
Amazingly, none of the Ramblers rides has had to be cancelled due to poor weather (touch wood). A couple of weeks ago we joined them for a ride around Dartmouth and Cole Harbour and, this past weekend, we went to Bridgetown in the Annapolis Valley for three days of biking in gorgeous weather. We drove up on Friday, checked into the Bridgetown Inn, then joined Kim, Glen, Ingrid, Mike, Norm, Pauline, Jani and Lynn for dinner at The Crow's Nest, a seafood restaurant in Hillsburn. On Saturday, we rode north of the river to Middleton, then back south of the river. That evening, Ann, myself, Kim, Glen, Ingrid and Mike went to Restaurant Composé for a very nice dinner. On Sunday, we rode south of the river against a fierce headwind to Annapolis Royal, where we had lunch at the German Bakery Sachsen Café, then returned north of the river with the wind at our backs. Monday's ride was a Ramblers classic through the farmland between Port Williams and Canning.
We have also been out to Lawrencetown Beach with the Railers and twice with the Roadents, from Laurie Park to Monte Vista and from the 5k Café in Beechville to the Bike & Bean in Tantallon.
I have also been following the Habs/Sabres hockey series including the nail-biting seventh game overtime win on Monday. Let's hope they do as well against Carolina.