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 April 5
Happy Easter!
Our latest puzzle
The day after I last updated this age, Ann flew home from Ottawa. I picked her up from the airport and, the following day, I returned the rental car and picked our own up from the body shop. So now everything here is back to normal.
This morning, Ann and I were up early to attend the short service on the Dartmouth waterfront followed by breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausages, fruit salad and muffins in the church basement. Ann stayed afterwards to sing with the choir in the regular 11 o'clock service.
The weather, for the most part, has continued to be cold and wet which has prevented me from getting as much done in the garden as I would have liked. By this time last year I had already planted lettuce and kale but nothing yet so far this year. The week ahead promises to be a little drier so I hope to get some stuff planted soon.
I have managed to get out for some rides but mostly just around Dartmouth. Ann joined me on one of them but she has been busy volunteering at the food bank and doing taxes with the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program which hasn't left much time for biking.
A week ago Thursday we went to Neptune to see Chase the Ace, an amusing one-man play about shady dealings around a lottery in a small town in Cape Breton. We met with Ingrid, Mike, Kim and Glen for dinner beforehand at Mappatura Bistro. We were at Neptune again this week to see Come From Away, the musical about events in Gander on September 11, 2001, which Ann had already seen but I hadn't. We had another nice dinner beforehand at The Wooden Monkey with the usual suspects.
Last Tuesday, I drove to Truro to play bridge with my friend Layton at the Truro Bridge Club. We played really badly, making all sorts of stupid mistakes, but still managed to place in the middle of the field. We are going to try and do better this coming Tuesday.
For the past week I have been watching the chess Candidates Matches which are taking place in Cyprus. There are two co-located tournaments, one open and one for women, which will determine the challengers to the current world champions. The talk of the tournament so far is the young Uzbek player Javokhir Sindarov who, at the half-way point, is a point and a half clear of the field having won five games and drawn two, an almost unbelievable start at this level.