Home is where you live

Posted on by Tim Olohan

Several years ago while at work one day, I looked up and noticed this beautiful lady looking at me. I’d worked with her for years, but all of a sudden I saw her in a completely new light. We’d just installed LED’s and got rid of the fluorescents, but that’s neither here nor there. We fell in love and got married. Life was grand then and still is to this day.

As a bonus to having my love returned to me with interest, I also got to know and love her 4 beautiful youngsters. And her siblings and parents. Wonderful people, all of them, not a single dud in the bunch. I sold my condo in Langley, BC and moved in with her and (on and off and on and off) one or two or three young adults. Not having children of my own, I’ll admit that there was a learning curve. Being childless allowed me to be somewhat ( or extremely ) self-indulgent. We rolled up our collective sleeves and did the hard work. Me on unclenching and trying to remember being a youngster myself and them in graciously giving trust to this old weirdo that woo’d their precious Mother.

Please flash forward a few years and find me living my best life with my 5 best friends, in Provinceton, a lovely little neighbourhood in North Cloverdale, Surrey, BC. The house is 4 walls and (now) 2 residents, the home is 6 loving souls. This is my community.

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…and yet here we are…

Posted on by Tim Olohan

Well, dear reader, it’s March in beautiful British Columbia. By this time of year we’re all fed up with flat grey skies, chilling winds, and that bloody rain !! And somehow, just as we get to think that we just can’t deal anymore, we often get a weeks reprieve from the gloom. The sun comes out, the ground dries up, and we can finally take a look around to discover a few buds on the local flora. I feel like I can relate to the caterpillar waiting to burst forth from the safety of its cocoon into this huge new world. Life lays all opportunity at our feet.

Look, even though Spring is officially just a few days away, Winter isn’t done with us yet. History tells us that we have at least a couple on months of rain to come yet. We know this, but for a couple of more days, let’s just pretend that this t-shirt weather is here to stay. Deal ? Alrighty then.

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