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Hoppy Easter!
This morning we woke up to a bit of a grey day and rain was expected in our 10C day. It was a good morning to prepare for the long road...
Ruth Mcbride
Apr 4, 20216 min read


Why couldn’t we have grandkids first?
My mother and father used to say that to me after I had my son Josh. I never really understood them. Now I do. What a delight to see...
Ruth Mcbride
Apr 3, 20216 min read


A St. Stephen kind of day...
What do I mean by a St. Stephen kind of day.? Keep on trucking! And that’s what we did today! St. Stephen’s ‘mini me!’ I was awake very...
Ruth Mcbride
Apr 3, 20218 min read


Kind of like a Gene Autry song!
”I’m back in the saddle again. Out where a friend is a friend. Where the longhorn cattle feed. On the lowly gypsum weed....” But...
Ruth Mcbride
Apr 1, 20216 min read


We aren’t spending the whole day getting ready are we?
That’s what I said to Richard last night over dinner. With nice weather finally here, the last thing I wanted to have happen was to...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 31, 20218 min read


How touching and thoughtful...
We woke up to another stunning sunrise this morning over Fanny Bay. I had an early start today as I had to be in Courtenay at ’Extreme...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 30, 20218 min read


UN-Nesting and Nesting all at the same time
What a busy day we had today! We had my last strength training session in Courtenay with Paul. Today he really was a torturer as he...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 29, 20215 min read


The last time...
What a crazy day we had today. I woke up with a sore head from my the back of my neck up and the weather was not co-operating either, as...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 28, 20218 min read


What a storey!
What a busy day we had today! We started off catching ANOTHER MOUSE in a trap in Newman! OMG! If you read yesterday’s blog you know how...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 27, 20216 min read


My worst nightmare!
Last night as we were getting ready to go to bed, I was showing Richard something on my ipad on the couch. Normally Richard would be...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 26, 202110 min read


Making memories...
As I start tonight’s blog I’m a bit melancholy. We’ve made so many great memories this winter and its hard to fathom that our winter on...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 25, 20215 min read


What will your bench say?
Today we went hiking at one of our favourite spots to hike on the Island. Seal Bay Regional Nature Park. We had been to Seal Bay once...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 24, 20216 min read


Spring!
We’ll start today’s blog with a picture I took at the golf course this morning. Ah, so beautiful! It’s spring on the Island. It really...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 23, 20216 min read


Repairs and more repairs!
Last night we tried to watch this Academy Award nominated movie on Netflix called ‘Mank’. I fell asleep unfortunately. It was not our...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 22, 20216 min read


Anticlimactic!
We had a great night celebrating last evening and this morning was very anticlimactic having to get going so quickly to pack up the condo...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 21, 20214 min read


Whale of a time!
Well, today is the BIG 6 OH! I don’t feel old so that’s good. My good friend from Nova Scotia Lady B sent me this nice card today and I...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 21, 20218 min read


Not such a charming day....
I’m running out of time to get ready for our 8:30pm dinner at the renowned ‘1909 Kitchen’ in Tofino! Paul Moran, the chef at 1909...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 20, 20215 min read


Charmed!
It is really nice to have a lot of space to roam around in! We are not used to having 1,500 square feet of space to live in, and the...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 18, 20217 min read


Crossing this one off..
This is definitely not New Zealand! Nope, this isn’t anywhere close to being New Zealand, but this certainly is as close to paradise as...
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 18, 20216 min read


How anticlimactic!
This morning we had a nice lazy kind of morning. It’s so nice to be able to sleep in without an alarm, and today was one of those days....
Ruth Mcbride
Mar 17, 20216 min read
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