The few days following Christmas were lovely. Max enjoyed long walks on the crisp, frosty mornings, and afternoon visits with friends and family, not to mention leftover turkey and all the other treats that were part of the festive season.
Episode Twenty-eight: Max eats a light bulb.
Once we’d decided to create a Max puppet, the possibilities seemed endless. Max was to replace the poodle in the Christmas show, but I soon realized that I could build a series of shows around his various tricks. And since
Episode Twenty-seven: How Max, the Ho Hum Husky was born.
In spite of the decorating and the festive songs tinkling from the radio, I could not come up with a concept for my Christmas song. I had written a good script, which included three Pelham animal marionettes—a cat, a poodle
Episode Twenty-Six: Santa and Max are watching you!
The day after the election, we set off to meet Edna and Brandy as usual. It had snowed in the night, and then frozen, so the ground was treacherous. To add to the hazardous conditions, we were joined by an
Episode Twenty-five: The more they see of me …..
November passed in a blur. There were still all the usual responsibilities: Running the home, feeding the family, taking the girls to activities, and walking and training Max. I was also trying to work on the role of Violetta with
Episode Twenty-four: Halloween Howl!
Halloween was always fun at our house. When the girls were old enough for trick-and-treating, we created our own family tradition, sneakily devised so they didn’t stay out too long. We invited their friends and friends’ parents back to the
The Window in Room 21 – Memories of the Sundowner Inn
Our family has many happy memories of the Sundowner Inn on Hospital Bay. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that I used this Pender Harbour locale for a story in my latest book. The impetus for the tale came from Patty Jackson,
Episode Twenty-Three: Campaign Dog.
During the campaign, interactions with my friends took on a Monty Python flavor. On our morning walks, Edna would grin and refer to me as Your Worship. When our recording-artist friend, Gary Kehoe, came to visit, he quipped that, if
Episode Twenty-Two: What those darn dogs got me into!
On the day after Katie’s (and Max’s) birthday, Marcella came to church with us. After the service, Hugh and I dropped the girls at the mall and continued out to Sasamat Lake to give Max his weekend hike. En route
Episode Twenty-one: Max has a birthday party.
Although we didn’t know Max’s exact birthdate, we calculated that it must be mid-September. Since Katie’s birthday was September 19th, she graciously suggested that Max could share her special day. Katie (and Max’s) birthday party was to be an afternoon