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People don't notice winter or summer when they're happy.

Rian on board a motion trainer at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC.

Against a literal backdrop of World War Two fighter aircarft, Rian spent a morning with me at the local flight museum taking pictures and making notes. We were making arrangements to hold a birthday party there next month, and Bern put me in charge of the "aircraft identification scavenger hunt". The museum's character is defined by its smallness. It's located inside a hangar at the Langley airport and at any given time, you can see displays being worked on by the volunteers. That's what has kept us coming back and maintaining a membership over the years. It's local and they're doing what they can to keep aircraft history alive.

Eli on a tour of the neighborhood during the first snowfall of the winter.

Bodhi and our neighbor's newest addition, a baby girl.

Rian cozy on the sofa after a good day on the slopes.

There were a few firsts this past Christmas. Rian skiied for the first time. Eli walked in the snow for the first time. And Bodhi held a baby girl for the first time. This is also my first web entry for 2012. As I changed the copyright year below I was pleasantly shocked to see that this is my fourteenth year writing a web blog. Coincidentally, while over at mama's house today (the boys' grandma) I came across my copy of Paul Watson's book 'Where War Lives', and it reminded me of the very first blog entry I made more than a decade ago. That was 1998, Indonesia was going through a revolution, and I found myself spending part of the night in an Indonesian police station for wandering into and taking pictures of a riot in Medan, Indonesia. Perhaps bad things happen for a good reason though, because I ended up meeting Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Paul Watson because he was being held and questioned in the interrogation room next to me. He even bought me a Coke and a Mars bar when we ran into each other again a couple of days later. And so it was the surrealness of being caught up in that revolution that got me blogging some fourteen years ago.

Don & Bernadette along with their three boys live in Surrey, BC, Canada.



People don't notice winter or summer when they're happy.


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Blogdate: Saturday, January 14, 2012 first time for everything, round three

Eli on a tour of the neighborhood during the first snowfall of the winter.

Bodhi and our neighbor's newest addition, a baby girl.	Rian cozy on the sofa after a good day on the slopes.
There were a few firsts this past Christmas. Rian skiied for the first time. Eli walked in the snow for the first time. And Bodhi held a baby girl for the first time. This is also my first web entry for 2012. As I changed the copyright year below I was pleasantly shocked to see that this is my fourteenth year writing a web blog. Coincidentally, while over at mama's house today (the boys' grandma) I came across my copy of Paul Watson's book 'Where War Lives', and it reminded me of the very first blog entry I made more than a decade ago. That was 1998, Indonesia was going through a revolution, and I found myself spending part of the night in an Indonesian police station for wandering into and taking pictures of a riot in Medan, Indonesia. Perhaps bad things happen for a good reason though, because I ended up meeting Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Paul Watson because he was being held and questioned in the interrogation room next to me. He even bought me a Coke and a Mars bar when we ran into each other again a couple of days later. And so it was the surrealness of being caught up in that revolution that got me blogging some fourteen years ago.