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| Masked, in front of our Christmas tree |
Carolle Trembley and John Palmer
19 King St., Unit 602
London, ON N6A 5N8
CANADA
Hello again
Wow, it’s a Winter Wonderland here today.
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| The First Snow of Winter |
Oh, traffic is difficult and it
is cold, but it is our first snow storm and the trees are all covered in
white. It is so beautiful. Unfortunately, the wind has blown the snow away
from the pallet John uses for his snow art.
And the rest of this week is supposed to be warm. What a way to start winter. As you will see, this year our pictures are of
the view from our 6th floor window.
And what a year. This is the COVID-19 year. We hope you are all safe at home. We are old and high risk, so it means we have to be extra careful. And we are.
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| John's Snow Art in the Last Snow - Spring, 2020 |
Carolle mostly stays home, and John goes for long walks in this beautiful city. We have a lot of take-out meals from our favorite restaurants. We have played a lot of Cribbage, and tease each other about winning too many games. We have begun to play Gin. We don’t keep score, so we don’t argue as much about who is winning.
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| The Autumn Colours in the Park across the Street |
We did manage to have an 80th birthday party for Carolle at one of our favorite restaurants. All the family were there, as were a few friends. And we obeyed all the rules. We all had masks, and we were carefully spaced by the restaurant so that we had distancing between the tables. And still we had fun—and turtle pie!
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| Moonset over a Sunrise |
We don’t see our family as often as we would like. The young ones are growing up so quickly. Miles has started walking. So he gets around even more than we last saw him. Laura and Matthew text us photos and videos of him, and he looks so happy with his big smile. Paytyn is back at school with her friends, and Paisley is at home playing with Mom and the dogs and cat. Sometimes the girls visit with Grandma (Rachael). They have learned to work with her Alexa, have made cupcakes and had their fingernails painted. And this weekend they are coming to our place to help decorate our Christmas tree. In Mississauga, Lara and Elise are going to school, but most of their other activities have been curtailed. They are clearly doing art, as we have some beautiful pictures they have done. They looked so happy in the snow in their last photo. Wonder if they made a snowman. Phebe is doing well at university, with many classes done on the computer. She and Nick have moved into a house they are renting from her Mom and are happy there. Cordelia and Amber have also moved to a new place with room for the dogs to run.
In the first week of October, Carolle’s sister, Viv died. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and, after her operation, ended up in palliative care. Her girls, Kristi and Karen, were with her every day to the end. They plan to take her ashes to the Bredenbury, Saskatchewan cemetery next year to be with Carolle’s Mom and Dad and sister B. Luckily, we had been in Edmonton to see Viv just after her operation. She is missed.
Carolle has become interested in NASA, starting with the TV programs with their spaceship launches. And she ordered books which were mistakenly not the children’s books which she thought. So we now have quite a library about NASA and the International Space Station. John bought her a NASA t-shirt, and finally found a cardboard model kit of the ISS, which we put together. It took us slightly longer than the 45 minutes they said. But it looks good.
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| Summer Sunset |
Last spring John published two novels he had been working on: ‘Susan’s Story,’ a companion to his first novel, ‘2605,’ and ‘Murder at the Office ChristmasParty,’ a classic murder mystery with an unusual plot twist. And just this week he published his second murder mystery, ‘Shrink-Wrapped Murder.’ With no concert band and no theatre, he’s happy to have writing and hiking as other hobbies. All his books are available in both Kindle and paperback formats from all the Amazons.
| John's Four Novels |
It will be a quiet Christmas at home for us this year. We have not yet planned our Xmas banquet. And, in spite of the challenges, we remain aware that we have an awesomely wonderful life, for which we are grateful. We hope you also have some awesomeness in your lives. We wish you a Merry Christmas. And we are all hoping for better things next year.
With love from John and carolle
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| John's Most Recent Snow Stomp Art: 2020, Spiraling out of Control |
