Musings about our life. Updates on our health, time spent around our gardens in spring, summer and fall, bike rides, new recipes we are trying and other topics that catch my attention.
What started as a necessity six years ago (the Doctors told me I needed to lose some weight for surgery, so I started to run five days a week), has become a lifestyle. Once I lost the first 20…
Our bike trails really are Collingwood’s Jewel in Hiding. This is now my third full year of riding the trails daily for our groceries, a fun little challenge I gave myself in an effort to enjoy the outdoors, get…
We both continue to enjoy our lives in Collingwood in the Spring, Summer and Fall. It’s a beautiful place to live and is a recreational cornucopia. There are a ton of fitness studios and gyms and an incredible trail…
On my bike ride to do groceries on a late September day, I heard splashing coming from The Pretty River and realized the Chinook Salmon were spawning and wandered down to spend the next hour watching incredible feats of…
This summer has been a good one for backyard visitors. This beautiful black swallowtail butterfly showed up last week looking for some sun on our mulch bed when I noticed him and took a few shots. The Black Swallowtail…
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last six years re-thinking what’s really important to me and the life I share with Yim. If there was one thing a diagnosis of cancer provided me with, it was the…
I thought that a post featuring some chronological photos of the past seventy years would be a fun thing to look back at. I was born in NDG in Montreal on June 27, 1955 and my French Canadian Mother…
Yim and I met at a party in Montreal, which was being held by mutual friends, in an old warehouse along the Lachine Canal in March of 1998. For those of you who don’t already know, it was a…
2024 was another busy year for us and a lot of fun… In the early part of the year, we stayed around home and spent time researching and planning our trip to Italy with our friends, Dorothy and Mark,…
It’s December now and I have continued my bike rides through the end of November. For the most part, the weather has been good but there have been a few cold days, which has meant adding a few more…
