Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty 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.
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Tuesday October 29
Ann riding near Kentville
The riding season is coming to an end but we still managed to get out four times since I last wrote: twice with the Railers on the regular Monday ride to Lawrencetown Beach, once with the Roadents on the regular Wednesday ride from Laurie Park to Monte Vista, and also on Saturday when we rode with the Ramblers from Kentville to Berwick. The weather has taken a decided turn to the colder recently so there has been a lot of bundling up, but it has also brought out the colour in the trees, so the rides have been very pretty.
The cold weather, including a couple of nights when the temperature dropped below zero, has meant some changes in the garden. The tomatoes, peppers and eggplants have been taken out at last. It was a bumper year for the latter including three smallish ones that I harvested on Saturday before pulling them up.
Our friends James and Judith — I've known James since we were both kids — were in town last week from Ontario. They dropped in during the afternoon and then we all went for a very pleasant dinner at friends of theirs who moved to Bedford from Ontario last year.
On Sunday, we had the Aljawabra family over for a pot-luck lunch along with some of the others who helped sponsor their arrival in Canada eight years ago: Jen and Colin, Joanie and Pat. The Aljawabras have since managed to bring Mahasen's parents and her son Mohammed here, though it is still unclear whether Mohammed will be able to stay. Ibrahim is now studying to become an engineer at St. Mary's and Ahmad has started a painting a drywalling business and has a family of his own with three small kids.