KICKING MYSELF AND THIS BLOG BACK ON TRACK FOR 2021 WITH A DISPLAY OF PHOTOS.
For the past few weeks and over the Christmas Season in the year 2020, I have been bopping around, in my mind, and breaking from the chronological order of our life and travels. The reason being, I think, was that…
ANOTHER READER POST – IN CASE I LOSE FOCUS – 2021
To start off the New Year I am posting this offering from a loyal reader and faithful friend. This article reminds me of how I found Alberta upon return, after many years of living and working in milder climes. It…
RAMBLINGS OF THE MIND – RECOLLECTIONS OF MY PARENTS
Now is the time to drift back a bit, and grasp onto a few of the fleeting reminders of my parents. A while back, I wrote a piece about how they came to live in Canada, where they met and…
OUR CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE TREE FAIRY – 2020
I just could not resist a last picture of our Christmas tree for the year 2020. This photo is of the piece we left behind after the trimming was done and after we had selected the perfect part for our…
OK IT’S DONE WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL – CHRISTMAS 2020
OK, the tree is up and decorated. I do not understand what the big deal was? After hacking this behemoth out of the forest; I then unloaded, unpacked and applied decoration to this monster, with the minimum of issues. Even…
HERE I SIT TONIGHT – STEAMED AND ABOUT TO BLOW A “FUSE”
Today, just three mere weeks from another long anticipated Christmas, I sit in the middle of the living room with a tree in place. You think this should be a happy time right? Well, think again. This cursed box of…
A FAMILY LEAPS INTO THE UNKNOWN 1994 – CANADA
After 16 years of travel around the world in the pursuit of work and adventure. The time had come to return to Canada and try to re-establish some roots. The decision to make this move came at a time, where…
NERF GUNS AT HIGH NOON – AN EPIC BATTLE – 2017
I find myself coming to a crossroads in my journey to shake the cobwebs from this failing mind, and to keep my memories chronological in order. Rather, I am now experiencing flashbacks to times and stories that appear more random…
ONCE AGAIN CAPTIVE OF DAD IN HIS CAR FOR 3 DAYS
By now we had been in Pennsylvania for a year and a half and ol’ Bubbaloo was wanting to go see her dad, step mom and the rest of her family in Edmonton. I had been thinking, often, of visiting…
42 YEARS AGO A CANADIAN WILDMAN MEETS AN INCA PRINCESS – an opinion piece
As I write the title for this blog, I am amazed at the number of years ol Bubbaloo and I have been together. It seems surreal and a bit unreal that this much time has passed like a finger snap.…
