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Sunday, October 25, 2015

In a Heartbeat.....


Thirty years ago today we got married; for each of us it was our second time round.   Blending two lives, my kids, his kids and two households into one. Ever since then time and years have been slowly ticking away.  Its been quite the adventure too.  The picture below was taken a few weeks after we got married at my new mother in law's home.  On the wedding day, we forgot to bring a camera and our best man didn't bring his either.  To go home to get it would put us seriously late so we carried on with out it.



I occasionally went to work with Bruce and rode trains. In this case, the Canadian passenger train during Christmas through the Fraser Canyon.  1985


After we moved from the Vancouver area to the Okanagan Valley, we made new friends  both train and weaving related. Here we are waiting on the 1995 CN Christmas party to start after a couple of rounds! 


After another move to the Winfield area....a visitor caught this picture of us in 1998.


I climbed back up on a train again for Bruce's last run January 7th, 2000 and so that ended his 38 year career on the rails.


Another move back to the west coast and we are now on Vancouver Island. We took a trip to Saltspring Island with friends ( and bought four looms between us!) in late summer / early fall 2008. Here we are having a gelato break.


My brother came to visit and took this picture of us on the board walk in Cowichan Bay approximately  in 2010.


The two of us enjoying the warm summer breeze on the car deck of the ferry on our way to see our new born grandson in summer of 2012.



Finally.... us again taken on August 7th 2015.    I would say yes all over again and Bruce says he would ask again (or so he assures me!)


Here's the evolution of a Railway career (as a bonus).  Bruce here is age 13-14 or so...


... and here he is running the real trains....


.... and now he's back to playing pretend trains again!



Bruce tells me the best is yet to come!  




5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Anniversary you two! Here is to many more miles of track yet to come. Cheers!

Louisa said...

Super Happy Anniversary, you two!! Delightful retrospective.

Elizabeth said...

Heartfelt congratulations to you both! Thank you for sharing this with us.
(My maternal grandfather and great grandfather were locomotive engineers--back in the days of steam!)
I do hope that your recovery is continuing smoothly.

Cindie said...

Happy Anniversary!!!

Joy said...

Happy Anniversary! It was fun to travel the years with you. They do go by in a flash. There's something about trains that is magical, isn't there?