NEIGHBOURLY VISIT

Just had a visit from Celine, our neighbour to the west. She walks a lot, a cancer survivor, going strong. Even goes down the steep hill to the lake with her grandkids. She and Ivo, her husband have lived a hard life as agricultural labourers, and she worked in a factory later in life. Ivo is over 80 and is hard as a rock. Keeps a huge garden, which supplies half the neighbourhood with fresh vegetables, also keeps chickens and rabbits. Celine talks to all the people around here so we get the local news from her. Like who just got fined for crossing the road with a loaded gun while out deer hunting, or who is having a rough time making ends meet. Since we tend to keep to ourselves, this is mostly news to us.

WELCOME TO DAVE'S BACK PORCH

Welcome to my new blog. I'm not really on the back porch because it's winter time here in Southern Ontario. Although today it might be hard to convince someone of that. It's around 8 C. Yesterdays' rain took away most of the snow. No sun to speak of, a little gloomy. So, that's like winter.

Had a good walk last night over to the cliff to dump the chicken bones. The wild cucumber vines covering the trees look amazingly spooky in the glow of the flashlight - like Spanish moss.

This blog is meant to be like a journal of our life here on the half-frozen shore of Lake Erie. We (Jackie &I) have been here for 20 some years and I've kept a record of most of it. Now I'm doing the same thing only making it a bit more public. It's a quiet life but enough seems to go on to keep us occupied. And here we are ready to jump into a new year so it seems like a good place to start something new. I hope you'll follow us on our journey where ever it may lead.