That's Entertainment! On the ranch, in the 50s, we burned our garbage. It was the only option. Each week, the trash cans were colle...

Funny Friday     Today’s post is the first of what will be a monthly feature here.  It’s called Funny Friday, and is a collaborative...

It was my first ‘live’ hockey game. Okay, I know that all of them are live. And quite lively. Let me re-word . . . It was the first...

Success! Routines are important. Especially when one has many small bodies that one is trying to shuffle into bed. The bedtime ritual i...

He’s not a  mean or nasty lout, In fact, were you to ask about Our Paddy Craig O’Connor boy, You’d find he’s just a hoi polloi. H...

Me and Zee. Now that's a little more like it! At sixteen, I made my first foray into the wide, exciting world of horse trading. ...

The Tolley Easter turkey. Well. One of them . . . Ours is a Christian family. Easter is important to us. We spend time in worship ...

I come from a long line of non-smokers. Generations of puff-nots. But my best friend had a cousin staying over for the summer. ...

Mark. In cleaner times. Family reunions. The renewing of ties. An opportunity to get re-acquainted. Catch up on family accomplishme...

Does this look delicious to you? Yeah, me either . . . My Mom had a magic cupboard in her bathroom. It was full of wonderful little bot...

If you are ever in Denver . . . Somewhere in or near Denver, Colorado, is my wonderful, stupendous, long-awaited, much-anticipated, bel...

Oh, please! Not that song again! I grew up on a large old Southern Alberta ranch. Among cattle, horses and hired men. I loved it. I spe...

The warring factions. Dinner is over. Everyone is comfortably full. With the cleaning of the dessert plates, the grandkids have s...

How do you relax after dinner? Okay, I admit it. Our family is weird. We like theatrics. And things medieval. Case in po...

See? Blue. When my husband married me, he got more than he expected. I came with baggage. More correctly. Horses. One was blue in colou...

Lake Okanagan. It only LOOKS peaceful and serene... The Ogopogo was going to get me! Ahem . . . I have a vivid imagination. I ad...

I know it's hard to tell, but there are differences . . . My husby and I were just finishing supper. The doorbell rang. He went to ...