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.
You can click on the pictures above to get a bit more information about each of us.
Sunday June 8
The Musquodoboit River on the Rambler ride a few of weeks ago.
A week ago Thursday was Ann's birthday so I made her the breakfast of her choice: steak and eggs in lieu of our usual Eggs Benedict. The two of us then went for a ride with the Railers along the BLT and Saint Margaret's Bay Trails to the Bike & Bean where we stopped for a coffee before returning. It was a lovely day so it was a very enjoyable ride.
That evening, while I watched the hockey game, Ann went to a choir practice to prepare for two performances of Gardens: A Sacred Oratorio with two other church choirs, an organist and a soprano soloist. The first was in Truro the following Saturday and the second the day after at Grace United. Ann was not very enthused about the music at first but she warmed up to it. Both concerts went well.
While Ann was singing in Truro, I went to a music party at my friend and band mate James'. He explicitly asked me to bring my banjo so I thought that I would clean it up a bit that afternoon. I removed the resonator removed a fair amount of dust, then found that a couple of the clips providing tension to the head were loose, so I tightened them up causing the head to split. I tried to get one at our local Long & McQuade but it seems that, of the hundreds of their stores across Canada, only one had a banjo head in stock and it was neither the one in Dartmouth nor in Halifax. However, the Folklore Centre in Halifax did have one so I rushed over to get it then spent the rest of the afternoon taking my banjo apart, installing the head, and putting it back together again — a lengthy process since there are 24 clips holding the head on and they each have to be tightened just a little bit at a time so that the tension is applied evenly. I managed to get it done in time for the party, which was fun with all of the Dave Brothers Band there as well as a couple of James' other musical friends.
I have spent a fair bit of time in the garden over the last couple of weeks. Everything has now sprouted (I was almost losing hope for a while; the cold weather delayed the cucumbers and squash) and there is lettuce and dill to be harvested.
It has not been a good spring for the Ramblers bike rides. For the last three weeks it has rained on the weekends and the ride has had to be cancelled. Before that, the weather was cold and the rides were not very well attended. So far the weather is looking good for next week but a lot can happen in six days. During the week, the weather has been much nicer so we have done the usual rides to Lawrencetown Beach and from Laurie Park to Monte Vista. Yesterday we rode over to Kim and Glen's and then around a loop through downtown Halifax with Kim's brother Greg and her son Will.
On Tuesday, Ann went over to Halifax for a belated birthday celebration with Ingrid, Marg and Kim at one of the cafés on the waterfront, whose name escapes her.
On Wednesday evening, Ann noticed a leak under the kitchen sink. Further investigation revealed that a widget holding the drainpipe together had broken. We called the plumber on Thursday morning and were put on a waiting list, but they didn't arrive until Friday lunchtime. The fix took all of five minutes.
On Thursday evening, we went to ViewPoint Gallery to see an exhibition of paired photos by gallery members and their invited guests. There were some really nice shots.