This month Gary and I vacationed in Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.  One of the most interesting stops we made was at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  In the 1920s both my parents landed there as immigrants from Finland.  These immigrants would then disperse throughout various parts of the country to try and find...

Do you know what a Canna Lily looks like?  It is a flowering plant with huge burgundy leaves and a red flower at its height of about 8 feet tall.  It is a wonderful plant for large garden displays.  A friend gave me some tubers/roots last summer which I planted near the end of our front porch.  It flourished wonderfully throughout August to...

“Oh dear! One more project to fix!”  I complained to Gary while standing outside at the front of our house and looking down at our broken wooden mailbox laying on the ground.  When we were away on vacation for a few days, someone had backed into it leaving damage behind.  That was bad.  Maybe they slipped into it during the ice storm at the...

“Come and see!” I yelled quietly to Gary as I was standing in our kitchen and looking out the window.  Sitting on a post of our porch was a young hawk.  Through the winter months we have hung cages containing suet on either side of our portico.  We tried to put them somewhere so that the pesky squirrels wouldn’t get the food.  Somehow those...

“Aw, there is one and only one!”  I was complaining to Gary that our large Christmas cactus hanging in our front room window was bearing only one pretty blossom.  Where were the others?  I guess it’s not a Christmas plant either since they didn’t appear at Christmas.  I think I need to pay better attention to all the ads that scroll by on...

I can’t say that house-cleaning is my favourite activity.  How can so much dust accumulate in a month with only two people living in our home?  However, my philosophy all through my life has been if you are facing an overwhelming task conquer it by working on it a little bit at a time.  Our guest room needed some paint touch-up on its ceiling and wall cracking fix...

Well, we did it!  Our children and I were actually able to surprise Gary for his 80th birthday he is celebrating today.  Our daughter Sara created an app – 4score.glide.page – on which we all contributed our birthday wishes for him plus added some interesting photos of both long ago and current times.  We have over 50 family members and friends who have participated...