A blog full of memories
Here is something I published for my Dad in 2008. I think it is still relevant and I shall cheat a bit and post it again. Happy Father’s Day Dad. See you next week!! XO J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s a little late in coming today, I know. AND I have absolutely no excuse. None what-so-ever (that …
I found it in bulk! At that Aligro store we bought your knife sharpener at. BULK! I guess I’m set for a year or so. I once asked somebody who commutes from London to bring some to Switzerland. He pooh-poohed my request: “HP sauce! HP sauce! That’s what peasants put on their chips!” I don’t …
My dad pops up on Skype video now. My computer rings and every time I click the red telephone to answer, I say: “On screen.” And the video starts. The other day, my Dad appears on screen and he’s pissing himself laughing. “Jennie.” He snorts through his snickers. “Jennie. I’ve decided to adopt a dog’s outlook …
He was laughing his head off. He and Mum had been traveling in New Brunswick. The went to the Canadian Senior Olympic Games. (Dad won a silver in lawn bowling–Congrats Dad!). Anyway. He calls. He can barely speak he’s laughing his head off. And I’m expecting another rude joke. But he says: “Last night we …
He used to lean over conspiratorially at the dinner table: Psstt…Psst. Want to hear a dirty joke? And our friends (no matter who they were, he named Charlie Brown) would look up eagerly and say: Yeah. And nod their head. No grown-up had ever told them dirty jokes. My Dad would motion them closer and …
My Dad gets on the phone tonight: Jennie. Jennie. I have to tell you this joke. He’s laughing but gasps out: Bertrand told it at the dinner table the other day. And if there is anything my Dad likes (besides my Mum and KFC), he likes Bertrand’s jokes. He gets the added enjoyment of hearing …
It’s my Dad’s birthday today. I would just like to take this moment to tell the world I love my Dad. He’s taught me a lot and –it’s never too late to say: You were right, Dad–most of the time. My Dad is a funny man. He has the best sense of humour of anybody …
The other day, I was eating dinner with my friends Katie and Sean. They were making wine in their garage and I wanted to take pictures. Originally, I thought this blog entry would be about how Californian’s make home-made wine, but then, when we sat down to dinner, Sean said: I’m so hungry, I could …
This is a picture of my Dad as he is about to go hunting. He definitely looks like a true Yukoner here.
M-pants and I were playing a new board game that daddy had bought for Christmas. It involves monuments, tokens, and a map of Europe. He took the boat monument and started making it sail in the ocean around Italy. “Mommy. I sail in ocean.” I am surprised–and quite pleased–that he knows the word ocean. I …
My mum is a quilter. She lives in Whitehorse, Yukon and has been quilting since the late 1980s. (When she reads this blog post, she will tell me the exact date and the exact project she started working on.) She quilts for a number of reasons: to express her creativitiy, for the company (of other …
Both M-pants and Jman are growing up so fast. I have this quote: “The days are long, but the years are short.” I thought I should at least start recording progress. M-pants likes books right now. Especially those simple books with one picture on each page. He likes the interactive book T’choupi et Dou-dou–the one …
Today, somebody in FB accidently typed the word ‘foul’ instead of the word ‘foil’. I laughed and told her this story: My mother has terrible handwriting. Nobody has ever–in the history of time (at least my time)–ever been able to decipher it. When my parents were first married, my mum wrote my dad a shopping …
I am not really a traditional holiday person. In fact, I mainly try to avoid tradition all together. My mum, on the other hand, has a list a mile long of things she does at Christmas: Christmas letters, Christmas baking, decorating the house, decorating the tree, Christmas dinner (although, I am pretty sure my dad …
It is really quite early to be playing Christmas carols all of the time. They are everywhere anyway. Here is a video that makes me laugh each time I see it. I Skype alot with my family and I have been peering in and out of the webcam frame from different angles saying: Menaw menaw… …
Dave Rogers over at Urban Yukon wants to know: How has Urban Yukon affected your blogging? He is writing a story for What’s Up Yukon. I can’t remember how I found the Urban Yukon blog ring, but it was just when I started blogging—I just checked, apparently since 22 May 2007 (I thought it was …
I talk to my parents in the Skype the other day. “What were you up to today?”, Mum asks. “Oh. We just lazed about because we have only a few more weeks of THAT luxury. We went for a walk, then we treated ourselves to a lobster dinner.” Mum says: “Yum. How was that?” They …
I haven’t been on the blog for a while. I just read a comment from my friend in Ottawa: “Update your blog or I’m calling your Mum!”. Oh. The shame! Mais, en fin, voila–an update. BARCELONA We went to Barcelona for a week. My cousin Nik won a cruise in the Mediterranean and she and …
To my friends and family who have inquired: “Nothing happening on your blog Jennie. What’s going on? Are you OK?” Thank you for inquiring. Yes. I am alive. I am fine. I’ve just had a lot going on. At the end of January, I drove from Whitehorse, Yukon to Healdsburg, California. We’d sold a property …
It looks like Sunday, 03 January 2010 will be the Urban Yukon Bloggy Brunch. Put it on your calendar. Tell your blogging buddies. Most of all, come on out and meet everybody in person. Put a face on the blog!! Time: 11h00 am to whenever (probably around 2h00 pm) Place: Mary Lake subdivision. I’ll send …
My mum and I are upstairs. I’m working on my websites, Mum is writing out Christmas cards. My dad walks upstairs: “Dorothy, if I wanted to look this thing up on the internet, how do I do that?” I am in my bedroom, but my ears perk up. I wonder if he wants to research …
I ask my Dad: “What is the best practical joke you’ve played on someone?” He snorts. “Oh. There are so many!” Then he starts chuckling. “I think the best one was when I was driving your sister down to Olds College. We stopped in Fort McMurray to see my relatives. I phoned up my niece …
It was one of my friend’s (from elementary school) birthday yesterday. I thought about her as I wrote the date on some forms at the bank. And made a mental note to check when I got back to the computer. I was surprised to get an email from her later: Hi Jen, It’s my birthday today …
