Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty-five years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
You can click on the pictures above to get a bit more information about each of us.
Sunday November 30
Ann in Terence Bay last week
Yesterday, the Ramblers officially ended the year with their AGM. As the Ride Scheduler I had to give a brief report on the rides we did, or did not do, this year. Since I have just completed the first year of a two year stint, I will be the Ride Scheduler again in 2026. I am currently checking out options for new or modified rides for next year. A week ago Friday, Ann and I tried out a new route from White's Lake to Terence Bay, back to White's Lake and then down to Prospect. It is a good route, with both Terence Bay and Prospect being quite picturesque, except that there is a stretch of less than a kilometre along a busy road with no paved shoulders. Annoyingly, there are paved shoulders all the way from Halifax to White's Lake but they end just at the place where we would like to have them. Unfortunately, that might mean that the ride will be too dangerous for us.
As well as continuing to bike when the weather is good enough, Ann and I have begun to skate again. So far we have been to the RBC Centre twice. They have free skates for an hour and twenty minutes every weekday morning and in a few weeks we will also have the option of skating outside at the Emera Oval. We are also staying active by walking with the Roadents most Wednesdays. Usually we go to Shubie Park but last week, for a change, we walked along the Dartmouth waterfront trail instead.
November 18 is Latvia's Independence Day so, as I have done for the past few years, I went to Parade Square in Halifax to join Ingrid, the honorary consul for Latvia in Halifax, at a flag-raising ceremony. This year the mayor, of whom we already had a poor opinion, decided not to make an appearance and sent one of the councillors instead. Ann was not able to make it either (but my opinion of her has not lessened) as she was doing her usual stint at the food bank. Afterwards, we went for coffee at Tempo, the café in the Barrington Hotel.
On Friday and Saturday, the church held one of its fund-raising sales: bags of used books for $10, jigsaw puzzles for a couple of bucks each, "new to you" Christmas items, baked goods and a raffle on a large gift bag. Ann, David and I went down on Friday morning to help lug tables from the basement to the main floor but found that they had already been set up by the time we got there. Ann went back in the afternoon to help set out the items.
That evening, Ann and I went to see Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier playing with Symphony Nova Scotia. We ran into several of our biking buddies there. Everyone enjoyed the concert.
Today, Ann invited Alice, whom we helped emigrate from Uganda a few years ago, for cake in honour of her birthday which was a few days ago. Susan and Pat, who were also part of the group that sponsored her, also came.