Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody, only a few days late. This year it is pretty hard to pass love along when we are so strapped with restrictions, but have other ways to communicate our feelings to loved ones.
Again this week there is little happening that people want to tell, but for sure some folks are visiting back and forth within their bubbles, and playing it safe when doing so. When you compare the hardships folks are enduring now and compare it with lonely times when the pioneers first lived here, without any of our conveniences of today ‑ power, telephones, radio, roads ‑ do we have anything to complain about? Are we really so hard done by with these regulations and distancing? We would rather life carried on normally, but it’s starting to look like life will never be the same again.
Last week was celebrated as appreciation week for teachers and school staff. They remain “Unsung Heroes” as they carry on in these uncertain times, doing their jobs.
The cedar waxwings are taking care of the bunches of red seed pods on the Manchurian elm trees in the area and north of here. It’s great to have so many winter birds, The Eurasion doves are coming in and cleaning up under my feeders these days, too.
The CAA magazine had several interesting articles in their last issue on Prince Albert, Tofino, B.C. and Newfoundland. Love the seafood menus described at Tofino. Also the information that home renovators would need to know as to costs of their projects and time it takes when you aren’t too sure just how it should be done. Like my niece said recently, “I had no idea a little room like a bathroom could take so much time and money.” During this time of the pandemic many folks are using their time to upgrade various parts of their home as a means of keeping themselves busy and it always takes money to do it.
A 4.4 earthquake at Banff, Alta. must have been a surprise for folks. How can it shake in the middle of so much land, and especially with the huge mountains in that area looking pretty solid?
