Travis
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My boy is back.
Travis is home. After nearly two weeks on the land; picking Goose eggs, fishing, hunting seal, eating flowers, hiking to waterfalls and watching birds. He's back a little early because of a bout of stomach flu, but he seems better and I don't mind his early return at all. I've missed my boy. Tomorrow we
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Class of 2020. The class with vision!
Travis' kindergarten class graduated today. Ready to take on the world. Afterwards he said "Dad, tomorrow I'm in Grade I". He was so thrilled about it I almost didn't want to tell him he now has the summer off… or that there are 12 more years, undergraduate and med school still left. Doesn't he look
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Return of the Kiggavik
I’ve been trying to get back out to the St George Society Cliffs, ever since my last trip out there, to see if the Gyrfalcons had returned. Unfortunately something always seemed to get in the way. It doesn’t help that only one of the snow machines is working and Leah relies on hers as much
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My Son, the visual artist.
When I downloaded the picture from the previous post off the camera this afternoon, I discovered that Travis has been busy taking pictures with my camera. This is just one of his many shots, but I thought it pretty interesting. It’s a picture of the TV screen showing one of the dancers from the children’s
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Some new family pictures.
I thought I’d share with you some photos of us that I received by email today. I really need to credit the photographer but (I hate to say it) I only remember his first name, Alex… They are pictures from our visit to the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. The first is my new favourite
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Unabashed proud Dad post
One of the (many) joys of being a parent is that you get to do things that you haven’t done since you were a kid. Like this…
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Travis’ Fourth Birthday
Saturday last was Travis’ fourth birthday, and although I intended to post then about it, I’ll make an abbreviated attempt now. The weather co-operated a little better this year than the past few years, but it still was glorious out. All the same we had the party at Victor Bay. I still hadn’t gotten the
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Birdsong
I’m sitting here, in the livingroom, listening to birdsong just outside the door. The House is quiet, our only client having left for the morning. Travis and Leah are still asleep, Hilary is in my lap, smiling of course, and the smell of the coffee is wafting up from the kitchen. I’m not yet ready
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Move over Art Lad
Yesterday afternoon, Travis got a couple of pieces of paper from our printer, took a pencil crayon and went off on his own, quietly creating… A picture of mom…and a picture of dad. He pointed out to his mom that dad’s legs are longer than hers. And I noticed that he got all three hairs