Magic New Year’s Eve of 1955

I was trying to think of other New Year’s Eves but only two come to mind. I was almost seven years old and was staying with my grandmother in London, England for the holidays. I slept on a little cot which she had placed by her bed under the window. This particular New Year’s Eve [...]

Reminiscing over my travels

Visiting one of my blog friends today I commented on how well travelled he was and I said I think he probably had me beat as far as all the places he had visited. So I started to make this list. I think I have remembered everywhere. Some places I visited as a child and [...]

Snow collage

The dog is Annie our Maremma sheepdog. She has a large fenced yard to run in that borders the ravine at the back of the property so she can see all the animals come and go but currently the snow is so high that she just walks over the fence and is gone for [...]

Snow, ice and creeping old age

It was a beautiful day here today -12C but the sun was shining and I had to wear sunglasses. My husband was on the roof getting the last of the snow off and I was pushing it up to the road. It was hard work, my legs and arms were shaking with fatigue before I [...]

All over for another year

Its 8:10pm and I can sit down and browse on the Internet. We had the phone calls from the two sons in Calgary this morning, and one son and two daughters on the lower mainland of BC and my sister-in-law called from Ontario this afternoon, plus my husband’s friend of over 50 years about an [...]

A brief History of Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas – see you after the holidays
Christmas cards were partly inspired by Valentine’s Day cards and New Year’s cards, the oldest surviving of which was printed in 1466. Home-made cards were fashioned by children even during the reign of Queen Anne, but the popularized Christmas card as we know it wasn’t invented until the [...]

Went to the big city yesterday and a little history

Before there was anything else, there were Indian trails and wildlife trails in the Bulkley Valley. It was the trapper who blazed some of the first trails through the wild, mountainous country. These traplines generally followed the rivers and the creeks, and often criss-crossed from lake to lake. Eventually some of these Indian trails were [...]

Socially correct Seasons Greeting – to you all

From me “the wishor” to you “the wishee,” please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally responsible, socially conscious, energy efficient, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of a winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with [...]

10,000 steps

About a year ago I bought a pedometer, that is a little gadget that you wear that measures how many steps you take, you can get fancy ones but I chose the simpler variety. 10,000 steps is approximately 5 miles, depending on your stride. The idea is you put it on first thing in the [...]

Foxed, again and again

My husband has a habit of putting things down and then forgetting where he has put them. He always says it is my fault because I must move them. Of course he is joking. This fall I had bought him a packet of work gloves, the sort with suede inserts, and he uses them when [...]