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.
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Sunday April 19
On the Ramblers ride in Seaforth yesterday
I last reported here on Easter Sunday. On Easter Monday we hosted 13 for dinner (horrors! such bad luck): the three of us, Ingrid, Mike Alex, Kim Glen, Josie, Lauren, Roxanne, Carl and Chapman. I made rolls and leeks au gratin, Ann cooked a ham and made scalloped potatoes, and various vegetable dishes were brought by our guests. Our friend Erika was going to come but she had a cold so pulled out at the last minute; she did still provide us with a carrot cake for dessert.
I've played bridge with Layton a couple of times over the last two weeks, once at the Truro Bridge Club where we redeemed our previous poor performance by coming in first, and also at the Don Cox Memorial Tournament at a hotel in Truro; we did fairly well there but not as well as I would have liked.
Ann has been very busy with all her volunteering: doing taxes at various libraries around town, at the food bank, and at the church. She did find time a week ago Thursday to meet Marg, Ingrid and Kim for drinks at Dear Friend Bar in downtown Dartmouth in honour of Marg's birthday.
The next day, we invited Carl and Roxanne over for a relaxed pizza dinner. We end up by crossing the street to their place and watching the Artemis II splashdown on their TV. While any trip to the moon is impressive, I was a bit surprised at all the hype about it considering that the technology is almost 60 years old. Someone in the PR department obviously latched onto the fact that they were going 1% further from the Earth than any of the Apollo missions so that they could claim a great technological triumph.
The Ramblers biking season has officially started. As we did last year, we had a pre-season Lunch two Saturdays ago at the Best Western on St. Margaret's Bay Rd. in Halifax. That allowed everyone to get reacquainted after the winter so that our first ride could depart with reasonable efficiency. That ride was yesterday along the trail between Lawrencetown Beach and Porter's Lake where we stopped at Tim's for lunch. Although it has been very wet recently, the weather for the ride was fantastic though a bit cool. There was also a bit of wind but, since the trail is largely protected by trees, that did not bother us unduly. I have also ridden out to Lawrencetown Beach and around Dartmouth a few times.
On Wednesday, we took our e-bikes to Sweet Ride Cycling in Mahone Bay, where we bought them, for servicing. While we waited we met Ingrid and Jocelyn's at Eli + Trix, almost across the street from the bike shop. After lunch I went to check out the trail through Bridgewater to make sure that it is in good enough shape for rides later in the season. Meanwhile Ann relaxed with Jocelyn and Lokman at their place. I met them there before returning to Sweet Ride to pick up the bikes.
I mentioned last time that I have been watching the chess Candidates matches. They finished this week with Sindarov, as expected, a runaway winner in the Open. The women's match was very close until the end with Vaishali Rameshbabu of India winning in the last round.