After talking to my mother the other day, I realized that I still didn’t know anything about my stepfather’s death, so I went online to see what I could find. This was it… September 17, 1925 – July 22, 2011 GROVE Peacefully at Picton Manor Nursing Home, on Friday, July 22nd, 2011, DERYK WISEMAN GROVE, […]
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again?!
Damn it! She’s done it again! A while ago, my mother called to tell me my stepfather, ‘Deckle’ (Derek W. Grove), had passed away. Of course, he’d been ‘sick’ and in a home for years, so I was saddened but not ‘surprised’. ‘I’m so sorry!’ I told her. ‘Have you talked to his ex or the […]
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It was early… 5:30 or so… and I was job hunting online. My blistered feet protested when I got up to get a coffee making me wonder if old-school door knocking was worth the effort or if I should be doing everything online? Sure, old-school had gotten me jobs in the past, but… The faces […]
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Since meeting, my BF and I have been challenging each other to find or share places we like. Because he’s a life long resident of the Niagara Region, while I’ve spent decades elsewhere, he’s done most of the ‘sharing’. In June, however, we rode north to Algonquin (Park) and then east to the Pembroke (Ontario) area, where […]
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Ok, so it’s been a month sinse I got ‘downzized’. What have I done? Well, I hit Toronto MotorSport Speedway for the annual ‘weekend at Cayuga’ with my BF, Penny and Mr. B, et al. (Pictures pending.) Then, I spent a few days getting caught up on the house and all and took off with […]
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Thanks to everyone who joined us on our Jun/Jul 2011 trip to Toronto MotorSport Speedway! It was a great weekend as you’ll see. Oh, and for the girl that asked “how come they get a pool?” the answer is “because Penny and I were smart enough to bring one.”
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Well, this is it. Went to work, tried to take it like any other day, but it wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped. Guess when you’ve worked as long as I have in one place you make connections and form attachments. I always joked about doing my ‘I quit’ dance and all, but I didn’t. […]
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Odd. I always thought leaving this place would be easy. I figured I’d exchange numbers with a couple of friends, do my “I QUIT!” dance, and laugh my butt out the door, but it seems like it’s more complicated than that. Not that the company would make it ‘hard’. No! Asked the Big guy today […]
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Well, today started out like any other… I got to work on time. The boss dropped by to say he’d ‘run the numbers’ and get back to us, and I joked about ‘not holding my breath’. A friend, sure something was ‘wrong’, scolded me for it but the 6 month ‘pilot project’ we were on […]
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