How can it be that life just keeps getting better and better?
Last week Number One Son Steve piled his possessions into his van, and along with Rosie the Dog and his brother Mike as co-pilot, made the epic 4534.9 km cross-country trip from Ottawa to Vancouver Island, where he is returning to a BC life based in Victoria. For the first time in many many years we are all together now in the same time zone (for awhile anyway, until Mike heads off back to the Arctic – to return in December to spend a month in The Bunkie writing his thesis).
Six or 7 years ago, Steve was living in British Columbia and went back to Ottawa for a visit. Once there he got, shall we say, majorly distracted, and it’s taken all this time for him to make his way back, to stay for good.
So this year’s birthday present to me on this day, November 5th, is the fact that Steve is now only a 2 hour drive away. I couldn’t be happier.
Well yes I could. That would be if Mike moved out to this time zone as well. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
The birthday song du jour this year is courtesy of the late, great, Koko Taylor. Rock on 63 Year Old Mama. The best birthday ever.