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 November 24
Sellar's Cove on my ride a couple of weeks ago
The Wednesday before last, we woke up to a couple of EHS vehicles across the street and several paramedics going in and out of our neighbour Barb's house. She had had a bad fall and ended up in the hospital for an extended stay. We looked after her cat, Luigi, for her until her daughter arrived from out west yesterday.
Now that the biking season is officially over, and since the weather has been particularly miserable for the past couple of weeks, we have begun skating at the RBC Centre again. There is free skating for adults from 9 am until 10:20 am every weekday. So far we have been twice and plan to go again tomorrow morning. The Roadents have also switched from biking near Enfield to walking in Shubie Park. On Wednesday, we went with them on the first walk this season followed by coffee and treats at the Marco Polo Café.
A week ago Thursday, Ann went to Wolfville on a shopping trip with Kim and Nancy. They had Lunch at the Library Pub and got home again in time for us all to go to the Resolutes Club for dinner along with Ingrid and Mike. We then went to Neptune to see Winter Moons, a play based on a Mik'maq folk tale.
The next couple of days, I played in the Karl Hicks Memorial Bridge Tournament at Mount Saint Vincent University with my friend and ex-colleague Layton. We played in three sessions with our best result in the second when we were first in our group. I have now amassed a total of 24.27 masterpoints which are awarded for doing well in tournaments. To put that in perspective, one of the American players recently passed 100,000 masterpoints.
While I was playing bridge, Ann was hanging out with Kim and Nancy and attending concerts. On Friday, they went to see Emilea May at St. Andrew's Church in Halifax. Ann enjoyed the concert but found the announcer annoying. On Saturday, she went with Susan and Dave to see the Camerata Singers at the First Baptist Church. She enjoyed that concert much more than the previous one.
Last Monday, as we have done for the past few years, to honour Latvian Independence Day, we went to Parade Square for an early morning raising of the Latvian flag by Ingrid, who is the honorary Latvian consul in Halifax. The new mayor and three councillors were also in attendance along with several members of the local Latvian community. Afterwards several of us went for coffee at Tempo.
For some time now, our washing machine has been vibrating a lot during the spin cycle causing it to wander across the floor. We finally had someone in to look at it a few weeks ago and got the bad news that it was toast. We decided to replace our dryer as well since it uses gas but, with our new solar panels, we can run an electric one more economically and with a smaller carbon footprint. After some research, we decided to buy them at Costco even though we were not members; the savings in price easily made up for the cost of rejoining. The new washer and dryer arrived on Tuesday.
On Thursday afternoon, Carl and Roxanne asked us over to watch a broadcast from The Economist on what to expect in 2025. Not much of it was optimistic.
Yesterday, Ann and I went to the Ramblers AGM at the Mill Cove Pub in Bedford. Since I am the secretary, I took minutes. I will be continuing on the Board of Executives next year though my role will likely change to Ride Coordinator. Afterwards we went for coffee at Harvest with Dave and Manon, Dave and Donna, and Shauna and Peter.