It has been a challenging week, what with the shooting of that innocent young soldier in Ottawa. I’m still rattled that some evil coward could commit such an atrocity in a sacred place. We have to get accustomed to remembering more often and being grateful every day to the men and women who helped secure our freedoms, not just on November 11th. Hub and I have been toiling away at getting the gardens and garage ready for winter. It’s such a reverse of what we do in the spring, when we fling out the deck furniture, take down our bicycles from their hooks and uncover the tender shrubbery. It doesn’t seem so long ago that we were shucking our heavy clothes, impatient to sit…

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