Janice Makortoff:  

Hi anyone who decides to read this. By some miracle, I've entered the year of 2017 and can still walk upright. Considering the mess I made of my left knee in high school, that alone is a wonder. Another year of retirement has gone by and seeing that my life is not one of adventure and surprise, I manage to get through my days without incident or harming others. I'm not as active as I was in the past few years mainly because my dog walking days came to an end almost a year ago when my wonder terrier crossed the rainbow bridge. However, not to be confused as any other senior driver, I enjoy getting out behind the wheel of my sporty Pontiac G5 to play a bit of dodge car with all those other grey haired Vernon drivers. And there certainly are a lot of us here. Number 1 son has left Alberta and returned to the city of his birth, Kamloops where he was attempting to continue his career as an electrician. And now he's returned to the city of his childhood - here in Vernon when earlier this year, he secured employment with a new electrical company. His two children were in Calgary, one now a high school grad looking for his place in this world. And this one ran away from his unemployed life in Calgary and is living with his dad here in Vernon. He's also begun his career in the electrical field as an apprentice. Number two son still works in the Vancouver film industry and was/and is a part of the making of several movies and TV series. His Thai wife is becoming accustomed to the Vancouver weather although not actually enjoying the wind, rain, power outages and this winter - all that snow. Now that my grand daughter is two years old, they thought it was time that maybe another child would be a good idea. He or she will arrive sometime in June. Hayl...Expand for more