Monthly Archives: November 2007

Lesson Learned

When you have an ear infec­tion, and can’t hear very well out of the affected ear, and you tend to sleep on your side, sleep­ing with the bad ear up makes it rather hard to hear your alarm clock.

The farm

Just in case I never get here again: I wanted to take a pic­ture. This is where my grand­par­ents lived. I’ll say more later, when it’s not quite so raw. The thought of not going back is enough to make the tears well up a little.

It’s snowing

And I get to drive in it. Woo hoo.

Grandpa

On the Tues­day before Hallowe’en, at 11:20 at night, my phone rang. Through the won­der of call dis­play, I saw that it was my sis­ter in Win­nipeg call­ing. That time of night, it’s prob­a­bly not going to be good news. My grand­fa­ther had died at 11:00 that night. He was 88 years old, and he went,