Poor Mom was taken to hospital for the third time last Saturday evening (second time was in the wee hours of July 22). (more…)

Pedwar came across this great story about a pretty special feline so I thought I’d post a link to it. (more…)

We caught up with Margaret and Andrew at the party for Alec & Michelle and learned that, with their first anniversary fast approaching, they are (more…)

Our good friends and bona fide Glebe beautiful people, Alec & Michelle, are packing up the kids for a three year work stint in Washington D.C. While it’s a great opportunity for them and they are all very excited, (more…)

Given North American’s relative ignorance of the global spectacle that is Formula 1, we F1 junkies are forced to rely on the web to catch glimpses of our heroes in TV spots such as this brilliant (more…)

We took off for the cottage on Friday night to spend the night and the day on Saturday with my parents as the weather forecast was actually looking promising for once. When we got there I made the first of two interesting, at least to me, discoveries. (more…)

Great news: Mom’s surgery has been scheduled for late August. That’s still a month of pain for her to get through - hopefully manageable with some pain medication - but at least a date has been set. Now the challenge is for her to eat enough now to have reserves when she’s recuperating but not so much that it worsens her condition in the meantime. A delicate balancing act!

I’m a little late to the party, but seeing as we’re in Canada and the iPhone isn’t here yet, I guess I can be forgiven. (more…)

Pictures from pedwar’s parents’ 60th Anniversary Celebration, back in 2006. (more…)

For reasons unexplained, the hospital discharged her last night at 11:30PM without completing the surgery. No one is particularly happy as we expect that as soon as the drugs wear off, she’ll be back to her earlier situation of not being able to eat, or move around at all, not to mention the pain — they didn’t even prescribe some pain killers! All that to say that the staff at the residence may be calling an ambulance again soon.