Tag: winter
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Rocky Mountain Beauty
Being back in our ‘home’ city has been great, in that seeing family and friends is wonderful and important. However, the city itself has been a bit depressing for me as the growth and change it has experienced has not been all positive in my eyes. So, our short pre-anniversary trip to Canmore was a…
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It’s Been Fun, P.E.I.
Well, here we are wrapping up our seven month stay on Prince Edward Island that included six months of house sitting just outside of the small city of Summerside. The goal when coming here was two fold; to explore an area of Canada we had never been before and to experience an East Coast winter.…
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Introduction to East Coast Winters
We have enjoyed an exceptional fall and an easy pace into winter here on Prince Edward Island. However winter arrived in force over the last week. We thought the first snow storm of the year last weekend was impressive, however this weekend another storm demonstrated that Mother Nature was just getting going. We were warned…
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Hope
As I sit here looking out the window at a perfect New Years Day I am filled with a mixture of hope and concern. It certainly has been a hell of a year on many fronts and even though it really is just another day, the beginning of a new year does seem to bring…
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Returning Home
Karen and I were incredibly fortunate to be successful in getting a house sit in the City of Chestermere, just outside of Calgary, Alberta. This is especially significant for us as we are from Calgary and had not been back in four years. For people familiar with Calgary, the first question to us was “Calgary,…