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the same session as the holiday card i sent out this year i didn t order enough cards so i had to cut like 25 people from the list this year how can i have a hundred people on my holiday card list hopefully i will prepare better next year if i send cards lol here is wishing everyone a wonderful 2026 filled with family friends and good times and read on if you d like to read about what we did the first half of the year posted by tornwordo at 10 58 am 2 comments sunday august 03 2025 milestones it s been a fun eight months since i last sat down to pen a blog post if you are on fb you ve probably seen serge s version of things as he has become the fb poster and i the lurker the older i get the more i m interested in consuming rather than creating this blog notwithstanding the first milestone is the blog 20 years old i was turning 40 when i started it i posted a lot more frequently back then so here what s been up i went back to ecuador in january skipped out to meet up with serge and a group of campcampers on a caribbean cruise and then returned for another month with serge here we are at a great restaurant we discovered called tartar when we returned to ecuador from the cruise the climate turned cold cloudy and rainy we froze and then on the last day when we were packing we discovered the space heater that came with the apartment but we didn t know about doh we are going back this january and renting the same place so we shant make that error again in march i went to a concert for the first time in ages i m a bit concert averse the performers never sound as good as their recordings and even nosebleed seats are costly kylie didn t disappoint however it s fun hearing songs get popular on the radio that i heard the first time live the snow finally disappeared at the end of april and in may the place where we live became a private club as it does each summer i organized a progressive dinner where we had apps at one house entrees at another and dessert at a third there are 3 long term couples in the picture but we are the longest at 32 years it turns out we are also 20 years married something not many same sex couples can say since we married merely weeks after it was legalized in quebec in 2004 another milestone we have had a pretty warm summer so far and we spend many afternoons by the lake a pond really enjoying the sun sand water and music those of us who live here refer to it as our little slice of paradise every weekend there are themed parties and dancing til late i have managed to stay out only once so far this summer my goal is twice to dance of course that was the night they were doing body painting when we arrived there was hardly anyone there so we got in line for the body painting by the time it was our turn there were over 80 people there definitely out of my comfort zone but i didn t die then last week i turned 60 another milestone we went to the auberge du lac taureau for a couple days it was in a beautiful location very remote that was part luxury resort part adventure camp here we are on my birthday evening enjoying the fireplace we rented on the shore of the lake 49 aside from goofing around at the beach all day we also did some archery we wanted to go on the evening lantern led nature walk but a storm was approaching so they canceled it what a storm it turned out to be where the lightning is constant like a disco strobe at maximum frequency you know i love a good storm finally my goal was to reach my goal weight by my birthday and i did it haven t been this weight since i dieted in 2020 a sort of milestone this is before the christmas pajama bingo a couple weeks ago i won now i m looking forward to eating like a king at campcamp i m sure you ll see fb updates from serge when we go next week thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the summer posted by tornwordo at 10 43 am 5 comments saturday december 07 2024 holiday letter 2024 happy holidays it s one of my favorite times of the year the house is filled with christmas jazz there s a foot of snow icing the neighborhood and i m ready for vacation and eating mom s cooking after last year s holiday post i went out to california to visit the family and a few friends in palm springs it was such a winning formula that i am doing it again this year but serge is coming too here is the last picture i ever took of george last december before we had to put him down i miss him so much soon after that terrible vet appointment it was christmastime and after i got back from california it was so snowy and cold i couldn t wait to get out again snow and cold is fine in december but after that there is no joy for me i headed to ecuador first this year it would be my longest visit yet 10 and a half weeks i found an amazing little airbnb unit in a great location with a lovely rooftop patio with a view over the city it was thirteen hundred dollars for the whole stay there we booked it again for 2025 for about a month i enjoyed the sunny days and hanging with friends that we have down there thursday game day was one of the weekly highlights also even though i work a little bit down there it feels like i am in retirement can t wait to go back in january then as in years past we went on a cruise with our campcamp com friends it was the first time we had gone on a cruise with msc and it was delightful i think the ship wasn t full and therefore it was never super busy and one never had to wait long for anything about an hour after we had gotten on the ship they announced they were canceling a stop so the remaining ports were miami and nassau yawn we ended up never getting off the ship and it was wonderful having the pool largely to ourselves during port stops of course we had great fun with our camp friends and nightly meetups and dinners i can t recall what serge was doing here maybe we were talking about when harry met sally but who knows after the cruise serge flew back to ecuador with me for about 6 weeks we did things we had never done there before like visit the zoo very big on the steep side of a mountain that took us a good three hours to walk through the pic is from there and visit the amazon a very long and ardous journey to get there and back but we saw amazing waterfalls and wildlife and eat guinea pig tasted like greasy chicken the winter vacation formula worked so well that we are doing almost exactly the same thing in 2025 i think we will swap out the amazon excursion for a beach excursion this year though we got back at the end of march and winter was still hanging on but the snow finally quit in april in may i joined some campcamp folks to scope out the new location of camp in maine what an upgrade we all had fun planning for the summer and really enjoyed the bowling alley i now know what the back of the alley looks like and how to get the pins and balls unstuck as they are wont to do in june serge s mom celebrated her 80th birthday with us we went out to dinner at 5 thinking we wouldn t need a reservation though it was saturday and the first place we went was completely full and they wouldn t be able to take us until 7 30 luckily the next choice had room for us more and more these days i find myself thinking that there are just too many people everywhere this was one of them finally summer arrived here we are down in old montreal for the jet boat ride i had gotten half price tickets on black friday so we took our next door neighbors who as i ve said before have become our best buds we hung out all summer around the fire at the beach and frequently at each other s house for the carnival like party here we ordered costumes from the wizard of oz and dressed up they left for thailand in october this year for a five month stay like they did last year in 2026 though we are planning to stay more time here in the winter and hang out together when a girl s got to go she s got to go serge in his dorothy costume he made the ruby slippers himself then it was time for campcamp and we got to use the costumes a second time for t dance it was a great week but only really the first few days for me being in charge of transportation became a headache with campers coming down with covid and needing to be transported out as well as my staff coming down with covid and having to leave it all worked out as usual but it was stressful at the end in september we had a visit from an acquaintance inquiring if we would like to have a pug he knew i had a pug in mind for a future pet the only catch was not to castrate him so that he could continue to make puppies with his two female pugs frankly i don t think either of us were ready to get a dog again but we took him for a one week trial and of course fell for him he is really a good dog very vocal and very attached to me it will be hard to be away from him for so long when i am in ecuador this year plane tickets had already been bought when we got him the fall has been fun with freddy i took him down to the river and he loved splashing around and biting the water we even took him to montreal when we went to our friend s birthday party he did great there was a kid of about 11 years old there who took to freddy right away it was fun seeing them play together and reminded me of the bonds i had with dogs when i was a kid last week we got to visit our friends in granby we had a great time catching up and getting holiday sloshed together that is a basic recap of the year s highlights i m still working part time teaching and serge is still working part time at the local hardware store although i m a bit of a news junky i feel like the holiday letter is not the place to weigh in on current events suffice it to say there is plenty to fret about but at this time of year i just like to feel grateful for all the good in the world our friends and families and good health and happiness i wish the same for all of you merry merry posted by tornwordo at 12 52 pm 6 comments sunday september 08 2024 my sixtieth year but i m not sixty yet yet it dawned on me that i am in my sixtieth year of life since at 59 one has completed all of those years turning sixty can t be all that different than turning 59 after all but here i am going through my life and suddenly the reality of my age is like that bad devil on your shoulder commenting darkly on everything about it it s not all bad though it seems more like this is my year of resignation that no one escapes old age no one resignation might be the wrong word it s more like letting go letting go of the notion that i can get rid of those wrinkles that sag those brain farts they ll be increasing forever more letting go of the idea that i m still going to make something of myself that i ll be well off bwahahahaha this is liberating one tiny shred of light on the overriding fact i m dying the point is we all are i just keep dwelling on it these days might as well share some of my observations today i have started to put cream on my face those who know me know i loathe to put any type of cream on my skin i just hate the feel of it but when i was in ecuador this year they sold retinol the good strength over the counter so the devil on my shoulder told me to get it its application is now a daily ritual i can t say it s my favorite station but apple music s easy listening essentials is the station i play most frequently i bet my grandparents would like it if they were still alive serge and i both forgot our anniversary this year we realized it eleven days later a record the fact that this made us both giggle helplessly mitigates the horror of the memory loss it implies i had a follow up scan this week about a little thingy they found on my lung last year i m still waiting to hear from the doctor i figure it can go two ways either i ll need some treatment or i won t i ll die or i won t wait i will die just possibly not from the little thingy on my lung my ass looks like a plastic grocery bag with just a little bit of water at the bottom of it if you re sixty yours probably does too at least that s what i tell myself i haven t written here since we lost georgie the two of which may be related i grieved hard but then something weird happened the grief became like a testament to my love for him and then it was easier the grief has died down greatly which in a way almost saddens me because when will i get to feel such an expression of love again not that i m wishing for more grief that will surely come that is if i don t die first last night we sat in a room full of people where old men sang karaoke songs on stage we were not one of them serge asked me does it feel like we are in a retirement home i had to shush him paying attention why did i not do this so much before like i can sit and watch the birds at the bird feeder for an hour it s all happening so fast when you pay attention i make stories up about the bird squabbles and try to figure out the pecking order between species fascinating we have a commercial sized recycle container at our house when serge brought it home i thought it was a great idea we do go through a lot of cans after all perfectly normal right finally for today i feel much less inclined these days to share to create to do and more inclined to observe consume and be so cliched i know but it s true and lest you think some of my observations are too dark rest assured that i am just fine and will keep trying to pay attention i ll do a year review blog by christmas until then thanks for stopping by posted by tornwordo at 5 26 pm 3 comments sunday november 26 2023 2023 recap greetings friends as i did last year i thought i would write a recap of the year to close it out and at least have two blog entries for the year it has been a year of mostly ups and few downs and here are the highlights snippets meets holiday letter style it has certainly been a big travel year i started things out by going down to ecuador in january for a few weeks and collecting the accumulated interest 8 from our cd as always the friends food and temps were perfect and it felt so short that i scouted out and found an apartment to rent for 10 and half weeks this upcoming january for a total of 1300 usd this will be the longest period we will have escaped winter and i suspect this trend will continue ten blissful weeks with no freezing nor shoveling and one dollar tacos and twenty five cent cokes shorty after returning from ecuador we went on the camp camper cruise which i organized and got about 20 people to go on from camp it was a big success everyone had a great time and it was fun seeing the first time cruisers reactions i got roped into organizing another one this year which we weren t going to go on but after going to camp and being ground down by our friends we are going to fly back from ecuador for a week this feb to go on another camper cruise out of brooklyn and then fly back to ecuador i m exhausted just writing that sentence let alone living it the things we do for our friends wink a few weeks after the caribbean cruise ...