Thoughts from Chickadee Lane

                                                                Roof top solar panels on Chickadee Lane These are exciting days at Chickadee Lane!   Last week twelve solar panels were installed on our roof. On Tuesday, the final inspection took place and with all systems go, the switch was flipped. The solar system produced power! For me, this is a miracle on many levels. First that we live in Creation, amid a solar system, circling a star we call the sun, 150 million km from earth.   It is a miracle how, on this far away star, atoms merge and produce light and heat that make life possible here on Earth. It is a miracle that travelling at 300,000 km/sec, it takes eight minutes and 20 seconds for that sunlight to reach Earth and strike the solar panels on a roof on Chickadee Lane.   It is a miracle that people can do such great things as to develop a way to harness that light energy through solar panels. Simply put, when the silicon material on the panels is exposed to photons of sunlig

                                                  Full moon over Kingston Creek It was yesterday September 7 when I settled into writing you. I was just home from eating cake while gathering to celebrate a momentous occasion - Charlie, my youngest grandson’s 10th birthday.   Amid the usual gifts of socks and cash, there were gifts cards for Xbox games. “What’s an Xbox?” I asked. “A video game, Grandma,” came the reply; accompanied with an eye roll. Coincidentally, the first X box games were released ten years ago.   Remembering the excitement of Charlie’s birth caused me to think about how the world has evolved these past ten years. Facebook memories pop up with photos of Charlies’ first day. It was   with awe and wonder we first stared into the red raisin face of this adorable newborn. It seems the ten years have flown by all to quickly and w ithout those photos, the images of those early days would be vague. I remember loved ones, parents and friends no longer in our midst.   I celeb