Reading away

I think I have read more books during the past two years than during the 40 years before that. Loving it especially during a cold evening with the fireplace on.....

Opa Vandenboom loves his new Christmas lights, purchased and hung up by his loving daughter Mary. Last weekend Joe, Marcy and Spencer were in Niagara to cheer on Wil who was playing a hockey tournament in Thorold. It was nice to see a few of his games. It looks already so long ago we watched Hilary and Mark in those arenas. Wil's team won the tournament....

My sister Hanneke send me this photo: March 1944, Jo Nolle en Nel Leverman get married at age 24 and during the last year of the Second World War. Later that year my sister Gerrie was born, and she sent me recently a photo with her kids....

And Gerrie's youngest, Berrie, with his family in the mountains of Switzerland. New generations growing up in a world shocked by the COVID pandemic and all the fallout and confusion. It is not always easy to stay optimistic, but then again - it is the only way to go. Soon we will be in 2022...

Change of chairs

Because both Mary and I live the life of retirement luxury, we felt we deserved two new comfort chairs. Our old ones - which served us well for some 20 years - went out, and Mary found us two very nice new ones. Today they were delivered. The old ones were picked up within two hours after we put them on the side of the street. Hopefully they will still find some good use somewhere....