It seems that someone or something likes to take a shortcut, even in winter. Perhaps I should say especially in winter with the temperatures into the minus double digits. Mature trees took a beating in the latest ice storm just … Continue reading →
If you’ve been reading my blog through the fall, you will remember my post Sweaters For Syria. The project has met with favourable response and then some. Today we received a message from our pastor with an update from Canadian … Continue reading →
On December 18 I blogged over at Canadian Writers Who Are Christian, as I do each month. This being my last post for Canadian Writers blog in 2013, I wrote about lessons from this year in business and in life. … Continue reading →
We’re in the winter season in Canada. Time for walking in snow, but carefully on ice, of which we’ve had a lot already. It’s time for winter sports such as skating, toboganning and skiing. In the middle of winter on … Continue reading →
January 10th 2014, open storytelling hosted by Baden Storytellers’ Guild at The Button Factory in Waterloo. Begins at 8 pm and goes until 10:30. Bring $5 and your own mug for hot apple cider and then settle in for stories. … Continue reading →
Christmas Day may be over, services celebrating the birth of Jesus, but are there not 12 days of Christmas? After the baby was born, shepherds would still have been telling others about the baby. The angels gone back to heaven, … Continue reading →
Christmas Day, we went to our daughter Laura and son-in-law’s home and spent the later part of the day with our children and grandchildren. My next younger sister will be hosting her family gathering today. Still others will have spent … Continue reading →
The City of Kitchener will take small pieces of wood into the New Year on garbage pick-up days. Our neighbour’s large trees sustained significant damage in our weekend storm. If you need wood and can haul away large branches, call … Continue reading →
This past weekend we were hit with a tremendous ice storm in which many in our city and other areas are still without power. Areas southwest of us were affected already on Friday when the freezing rain began, but the … Continue reading →
The inns are filling as people arrive in Bethlem for the required census. After all, who would argue with the Roman governor about such things. It would mean a new taxation likely, to add to the burden of the poor, … Continue reading →
