It has been some time since my last personal/family update, and it seemed like Labour Day might be the time to remedy that. I suppose most people sleep in on a holiday, but I’ve never been good at sleeping in—or sleeping at all, really. So instead I’m up early with an itch to do some writing.
Some friends who are new to Canada (they just squeaked in before the world shut down) were asking about Labour Day and how Canadians celebrate it. Relatively few people actually “celebrate” it in any meaningful way. Mostly we treat it as a day that marks the end of summer. That’s because the days are getting a little shorter and a little cooler and it’s obvious we are rapidly approaching the fall season. But it’s also because in most provinces this is the last day before schools start up again. So generally people stay pretty quiet and get themselves ready for normal life to resume now that summer is over. If we do much of anything it tends to be a walk or a backyard barbecue or something relatively simple. It’s dishing rain out there just now, so that may well put a
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