A Million Vacations
Boy oh boy, some people have too little to think about. Â …
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Personal Life
Our New Old Set of Wheels
We have mused and fantasized about owning an RV or trailer for as long as we’ve been together. Â …
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Royal Tyrrell and a Hoodoo Field
My cousin BA, Aunt Wanda and I scooted over to Strathmore from Calgary and picked up two more cousins, Mike and Wanda and Wanda’s boyfriend Dave, for our excursion to Drumheller. …
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Columbia Ice-Failed
On my plane ride to Calgary my seatmate, a man who had retired at 27 and somehow escaped without me strangling him in a jealous rage, said “You HAVE to go to the Columbia Icefield!” Â Apparently it has receded tremendously in the decades since I last saw it. I vividly recall running toward the plain of ice and recoiling in horror as a stranger next to me suddenly began urinating on its edge. Â …
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Cowtown Trip
Ah Calgary. It’s the Canadian city of exponential growth and recent, devastating flooding. It’s also the home of my closest cousin, my sister-from-another-mister, Barbara-Anne and her family. …
Bathtub 1, Lisa 0
I had a mishap on the weekend that I attribute mostly to a lack of sleep. Â …
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Happy Birthday Mom!
Mamasita.  Matka. Mamoo. Moo. Ma. Helen. Mrs. H. …
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Our Houseguest
Everyone, meet Darby. Darby, everyone. Â Darby is Spice’s cousin! She’s the fur-baby of a brother and sister-in-law on hubby’s side. Â …
Eavesdropping on my Life
Saturday’s balloon ride required us to get up around 4:30 am so we could make it to the other end of the city for 5:30 am. Â This wasn’t too far from our regular weekday routine except that we couldn’t have much coffee because we didn’t want to go up with full bladders. Â By the time we made it back to our vehicle it was about 9:30 am. Â …
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Previous Woman’s Day
Slowly we’re clearing away some forgotten stuff from the basement. There has been talk of shelf building and that sort of thing. Looking around under the stairs the other day I found a handful of magazines. Some are comics (worthless, I checked) and one is a Woman’s Day from March 11, 1980. Â …
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Up Up and Away
So the sixth time was the charm! After five cancellations because of weather, my milestone birthday gift got off the ground on Saturday morning.
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B3 For All to See
Here she is.  My third motorcycle in five years: B3! …
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