I have a great corporate career and I am enjoying the benefits of being in its latter stage having earned good income and the comradery of people I have worked with and served. I have learned every day on this job from people who are smart and dedicated. And I
We visited this house in Mallorytown in 2013. It was not a typical build for this village or Ontario but this is the story behind it as told by David J. Wells in The History of Mallorytown – Fact, Folklore and Fiction. No ghosts here. Dr. Joseph Lane purchased two
Photos on real estate listings lie and lie. Fall is crazy is here. For us, work has shifted from a trot to a gallop, and we are engaged in time tetris to trying to build in weekend trips to properly property search. At first the real estate listings on our
What is it about sharing meals that connects us? My mum’s family was big on family reunions. The last one we had with my aunts, uncles and cousins took place on the farm, Journey Place, in 1992. This memory is bouncy in my head right now because of a couple
We had a plan. After four weeks of gruelling work and work travel, Saturday was meant to be restful and low key. Hit the farmer’s market at 9:00 AM for my favourite flower and food fix, head up to Ryder Lake to check out an open house and then back
In July 2022 we explored Colony Farm Park in Coquitlam. I have always been curious about that piece of land across from the old Riverview Hospital tucked in between Lougheed Hwy and the confluence of the Fraser and Coquitlam Rivers. We revisited last week. Oh what a pleasant day. The
Closing out this week I finished two things. The first was going through a large box of photos that had been stored at my stepdad’s place. He died, sadly, in 2021 nine years after my mother. The box was passed on to me, but I only just started going through
Just before Easter weekend this year I found out that we won the lottery for a tiny community garden allotment. It was raining hard that whole weekend and when we hiked down to check it out the community garden was all puddles and mud. Our wee plot was full of