What we've learned about retiring early, health, technology, RVing and an active lifestyle.
Mark Boothby
When I retired I had no specific goals; just 2 broad goals I wanted to accomplish: Regain my Health Don’t spend the rest of my life watching Netflix on the couch. We had a great media room mind you, but I had no intention of spending a lot of time there. When I retired I … Read more
Has your Doctor talked to you about nutrition? Mine did, for years my family physician told me to lose weight. That didnt sink in because overall, I was feeling fine. What I didn’t know and refused to accept was that my lifestyle was killing me. Eventually, it caught up to me and I had a … Read more
We’ve been isolating ourselves since March 5th. Many local governments are releasing cautious plans to reopen. What will we learn from this Pause? We ponder that question in this blog. First off, it’s been along time since I posted on this site. Well, I have been writing. One of my volunteer positions is with the … Read more
How are you doing during physical distancing? I so prefer that term over social distancing. We still have tools to communicate socially so physical distancing is so much more accurate. The first couple of days we did not accomplish much. We soon learned to develop a routine and we accomplish much more while reducing TV … Read more
We have to take the pandemic seriously, so we were concerned about leaving to start our contract. Both Provinces have a lot of people ill so that wasn’t part of our considerations. Being close to family and being involved in the Stampede always draws us to the Williams Lake Stampede. But, the pandemic is growing … Read more
With the flu, Covid-19 and Shingles so much on the TV, we have taken steps to pump up our immune systems. We came up with the photo above after the 1000th bad new broadcast of that day. While certainly serious to people of certain ages or health conditions, the experts are not saying you have … Read more
I’ve written about his topic prior but this article from the Tribune contains more info. Most of us know the location of William Pinchbeck’s grave on the knoll above the Stampede Grounds — Read on www.wltribune.com/community/haphazard-history-william-pinchbeck-is-not-alone-on-the-hill/
Even though Della is a self-described townie, she attends the Farm Women’s conference each year. She came home so full of energy from the speakers and with a goody bag of great information. Here are some of her take home learnings. One Hundred years ago, over half of Canadians worked on farms. Now that number … Read more
If you’ve followed us for a while you know we are supporters of whole, minimally processed food. If feels like the marketers have gotten a hold of this goal and taken it too far. We wholeheartedly believe in eating 9 to 13 servings of plants each day. Our goal is to eat whole food and … Read more
How many emails do you have in your inbox? When I was working at Emergency Services a colleague had over 1700 unopened email in his inbox. This was a jaw dropper for me. But it didn’t bother him at all. He felt if it was important people would call him. Since email is a primary … Read more