“Don’t write about us,” she said. “Just put the photo in. You can say something in the ‘About the picture’ caption. I’m sure that’s all people read on your blog anyway.”
And this is why I love her. She’s reality. Honesty and trust. She suffers me. We’ve now spent pretty much our entire lives together. The experiences were intense and the path often twisted. In and out of the public eye, in business and politics, lots of risks, fails and gains, dogs loved and lost. It’s hard to spend fifty years hand-in-hand with another person without absorbing them into your very being. Disagreements are inevitable, but they fade. Time makes it clear what matters and what does not.
If you can find one true friend in life, you’re lucky. I started early. She wouldn’t marry me at 19, but capitulated at 21. We’ve been poor and not poor. Elected and defeated. Employees and employers. Owners and renters. Hired and fired. Stable and lost. Sure and uncertain, over decades of swirling change. But together, always. The rest was just noise.
About the picture: “I’d like to capture this moment in time,” Dorothy said, as we mused on our awesome anniversary. “Something real.” So famed photographer Tony Hauser agreed to do it on the sidewalk in downtown Toronto, rearranging traffic cones and jostling pedestrians. She loved it. Even when a blog dog crashed the shoot.
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Congrats on 50 years. Your words are so true. We are hitting 37 years and I could not agree more….Cheers
Congratulations on the 50th!
You married when I was born. The oceans trembled, the skies flashed… and two life-changing events occurred.
That’s beautiful.
This is what truly matters in life.
Congrats!
Congrats !
Congratulations! What an incredible milestone for both of you.
Congrats Garth, being married 50 years is a big accomplishment. Finding the right partner is a true blessing.
Your best and truest post ever!!
Congratulations! We’re hitting #28 this weekend, married very young as well. Glad you have each other.
All the best to both of you, and thanks Garth
DM
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Love it
Awww!!! So sweet and heartwarming
Congratulations! That’s great and what a lovely photo!
Congrats to you both!
Congrats!
“We were together. I forget the rest”
-Walt Whitman
Congratulations! Great post! Thank you for sharing your story with us and helping us navigate a crazy world of real estate, politics, dogs and relationships.
Happy anniversary Mr T.
Lucky you. And LUCKY ME – I’ve had someone similar in my life since 1985. Life is Good. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats to both of you!
Wooow. Congratulation and my deepest sympathies. As a coincidence, today is also our 26 wedding anniversary. You are such role models. Looking up to you, Dorothy and Garth. God bless you!
Nice, but a pink tie?? C’mon!
Ah, exciting markets. The mining sector has been slammed for the last several days for no fundamental reason. Healthy correction.
The obvious investor action is also healthy. It might not yet be bottomed out, but it’s looking good. I’m buying.
Dorothy, Garth congratulations for being such a wonderful example of what a couple should be thriving to achieve: love, understanding, compromise, stability and wisdom.
To both of you and the extended family, all the best!
Thank you for the time, effort and dedication invested in this blog!
congratulations. We’re in our 58th year together!
I hope most people can find someone they have as a life long partner and friend for 50 years. The way the world is going many may not have that available for them anymore. This is what life should be about. Many memories that will live forever.
Congratulations!!!
A little break from the regular to make us think and appreciate.
Thanks, congrats…and to another 50!
Congrats and great pic!
“HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY, DOROTHY & GARTH ..!!”
Beautiful Garth.
Timely post.
All the best to you both and many more roads to travel.
Congrats! to say the least.
Nice Photo !!! Congratulations is truly in order !
Keep on looking good and doing good with your blog.
Those that follow it are very appreciative of the time and effort you put in.
Cheers
Happy 50th Garth and Dorothy. It’s wonderful that some couples can make it that long! My parents are still together too… inspiring and adorable ;-)
However, even with that pink tie, Dorothy is much prettier than you! In fact, consider yourself lucky that some blog dawg crashed the photo shoot. I could see that pink tie doing far worse damage; for example, had Sail Away or Faron been in the hood at the time, they would have charged at you like a bull in heat!
Congratulations on 50 year anniversary to the both of you. Thanks so much for some good news with the short story of your lives and love together. In this current world of sadness it is truly nice to see some happiness!
Love it!
That’s awesome! What a blessing! Happy 50th Anniversary to you and Dorothy!
Happy Anniversary! Just celebrated our 35th ….. we are truly blessed to have found our soul mates so young. Wishing you many more years of love and happiness together ❤
Congratulations to you both, only 5 percent reach their 50th anniversary I have been told, the Photo is fantastic.
Congratulations to you both. My wife and I celebrated 58 years this year and your words certainly ring true. We knew you back in the days when we worked on your campaign for MP in the Burlington area. Wish we could do so again instead of what we have as options now! How the years do go by.
Great pic and comment. I have not found a soul mate yet … I got daughters that harp on me less than my former wife. LOL. They make me sharper.
Congratulations on the 50th!
Happy 50th Garth and Dorothy!!!!!!
You are very good family
I wish you to be together next 50th!
Dogs are great
beer is good
True love is hard to find congratulations Garth and Dorothy many more years to come
50th Anniversary, neato torpedo.
Congratulations Garth and Dorthy! All the best in the future!
50 years !
Well Done.
Enjoy the celebration.
Isn’t it on Saturday?
Ahhhh, OK.
Buon anniversario e brindisi Dorothy e Garth.
“Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici” *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhAqMeeQJk
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* Not a romance language for nothing.
Happy Anniversary Garth and Dorthy! May you have many more wonderful years together!
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy. You are inspirations in many ways <3
Nice, HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY!
It’s truly a test of Love when 50 years come and go and two people wake each morning as though it was their first.
May your days ahead be as blessed with love, joy and companionship as you move ahead into the next chapter of your life together.
All the best Garth and Dorthy
Great shot. I like what Dorothy is wearing. You both exude energy and youthfulness. Inspiring.
Congratulations!
It is a blessing to have you each other.
You both are blessed Garth!…..Congrats on your 50th!!!
That’s a milestone in todays world.
Finally no dog pic lol
Congrats — that is a real achievement.
Beautiful reminder on what truly endures.
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy!
All the best to you both.
Congratulations, that’s quite a milestone
Very nice.
I am old enough to remember living in Toronto in the 1980’s when Garth was a columnist with the Toronto Sun giving financial advice.
Lovely post and picture. Congratulations!
Congratulations on 50 years of marriage. May you have many more years.
I like the photograph, anything but conventional, and a nice mix of elements. The body language suggests two people who are of like mind, who are independent, yet supportive of each other. No one is obviously pulling away and neither is dominant. Your photographer did a good job.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy on celebrating 50 years together.
Love the photo.
I love this – Congrats on riding the crazy journey of life together; we all end up in the same place, it’s the journey and who we spend it with on the adventure that matters. xo
It’s true.
Behind every great man, is an even greater woman.
Another 50!
Congratulations, & thanks for posting this Garth. Well done !
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy!
Poor and not poor lol
Gotta be honest you both have great style
50 YEARS! WOW!
Almost as long as the awesome losing streak of the pathetic Make Believes!
(Just don’t go west of the Gooderham building to the Hockey Hall of Fame down the street – too many Toronturds will be wailing and suffering there, you might get attacked)
Congrats! You and the lamp post make a cute couple.
#2 Sail Away on 08.19.21 at 12:28 pm
Congratulations on the 50th!
You married when I was born. The oceans trembled, the skies flashed… and two life-changing events occurred.
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“Two life-changing events”
What was the second one?
50 years is a long time to be together in this day and age. Congratz!
That’s my fav area of TO. Lived there 33 years ago and always get a peameal at St. Lawrence market when in town. Congrats on 50 years.
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary Garth and Dorothy. What a fantastic milestone!
50 years is also about how long it will take to fix Canada after Trudeau.
Congrats! Dorothy you are a saint and Garth you are a true gentleman.
Looking sharp!
A true gift. Life long learning together. Congratulations. <3
Italia tightening the screws on no-vaxer healthcare workers and Docs that should have been, by Gov decree, fully vaxd last year.
Nello Musumeci, Pres. of Sicilia, some not so kind advice:
https://i.imgur.com/oJYCa7R.png
A few Docs got the “notice” yesterday in my Region of FVG followed by a 1 yr suspension, no pay. Nello in retrospect was being kind after all.
All teachers, Profs, support staff, etc. in Education must be fully vaxd before school starts here in Italia.
Pretty sure the aforementioned was a salvo warning to them.
Gov Italia enforces its Covid decrees. Nice.
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth!
What a lovely photo to commemorate such a full and wonderful life together at such an incredible and rarely achieved milestone. You two look fantastic!
I wish you both continued health and happiness together.
All the very best!
Rats. Guess I’ll have to go elsewhere for today’s JT bashing.
Been with mine for over 25.
I feel ya.
Congrats.
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy! Wish you many more with good health and happiness. But…., the
picture would have been even nicer if your arm had been around Dorothy rather than around the lamp post
Happy 50th and many more in peace and good health.
Congratulations!!!
Congrats to the happy couple! 50 more years!
@#22 Sail Away…if you’re buying mining, I’m buying!
Wow, Congrats!
Puts in perspective what really matters in life.
Enjoy your day!
Og
Congratulations. Wishing both of you lots of good luck.
Congratulations on 50 years of fun and friendship.
Did you apply to get a certificate of recognition from the Prime Minister?
I remember that one could apply to the Queen for recognition of a 50-year marriage, but I suppose that after her marriage surpassed 60 years, she must have started discounting the achievement.
CONGRATULATIONS! To you and Dorothy.
I recognize the iconic building in the background. Bet 50 years ago you never thought you would be living in Lunenburg.
Also, for the 50th anniversary, is it safe to assume this would be the only time Garth advocates for buying gold?
Beautiful photo. Happy 50th anniversary. Great blog!
Wow, who is the young Chick beside you?
Congrats and all the best.
Happy 50 then,,, yippee… Me and mine are doing 40 next year… Man, is D so much better looking than you… Just calling them Like I see them…
Golden!
May the bond last till eternity.
Father Time has been very kind to the both of you.
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. T.
Congrats to you two we have also been married for 50 years it goes by so quickly especially when you are chasing the dollar. We are a little older and in reasonably good health and wish we could travel because every year as we age you never think it will happen but you just slow down. We have seen everything in the world we wanted to see but a family trip to Disneyland for the 6th time would be nice.
Happy anniversary to you both! It`s always nice to hear about the good things in life.
Awesome photo of you young sprouts.
Congratulations on your 50 years of wedded bliss. Some people never find their soulmates. Lucky you two!
All the best!
Congratulations to you both. Neither of you look a day over sixty. Hope you feel like you are thirty and may you laugh like teenagers. You’ve earned it!
–Faron
Congrats Garth! 50 years, wow. She must have the patience of Job.
I’m going to have to make it to 80 to be able to celebrate that one with the better half.
Congratulations, D & G. Sincerely. I can’t say that about myself. We’ve split after 18 years 15 years ago. But one thing I can assure you of, and I am not a photographer-pro at all but if I were to shoot that picture, I sure would let you have your legs.
Fantastic! Congratulations!! Enjoy many more years together!
My parents are 75 & 81 and switched both of their TFSA to self directed. Is the 60/40 still appropriate for their age?
50
congratulations!
our 50th anniversary is coming up this October.
In 1973, we left Toronto for Ottawa. We have 5 kids and 5 grandchildren. We’re still in Ottawa.
Here’s to you both – congratulations!
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. ”
Shakespeare – Sonnet 116
Beautiful couple.
50 years… and many more to come, inchallah!
May God keep you together.
Congrats!
Congratulations! You both look great. I hope you have many more good years together.
Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Turner. Hope you have a great day.
All you need is love (and a real estate blog)
Congratulations to you both! This is all that really matters. People get so wrapped up in stuff. Some forget to actually live. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Y’all put a smile on my face today GT. Thanks to you both. I’d rather be in Lunenburg.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy!
Both, looking so very young and fit!
The trademark yellow tie migrated to an even more soothing hue.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy on choosing so well the first time down the aisle. I wish you many more happy and healthy years together.
Happy Anniversary! Wishing you many many more!
Congratulations, great shot, look forward to the 60 yr picture.
Looks like TO is enveloped in the BC smoke. Currently devouring Bryce Courtney, “Jack of Diamonds” set in 1930’s Toronto.
Congrats Garth and Dorothy.
It’s a magical feeling when you get to fall in love again with the same person each and every day together…
M47BC
#80 physicist on 08.19.21 at 2:18 pm
@#22 Sail Away…if you’re buying mining, I’m buying!
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Uh oh. Now I feel responsible. Here’s good luck to us both. BHP, Vale, Labrador Iron and Nutrien for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNvXDXqvFk
Great picture of you both. Thanks so much for sharing. You guys look awesome. Many more happy years on the way. Congratulations Wow
#77 Travelbug on 08.19.21 at 2:16 pm
But…., the picture would have been even nicer if your arm had been around Dorothy rather than around the lamp post…
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Have a closer look.
#75 XGRO and chill on 08.19.21 at 2:14 pm
Rats. Guess I’ll have to go elsewhere for today’s JT bashing.
____
Trudeau is a goof.
I’m here to please.
#77 Travelbug on 08.19.21 at 2:16 pm
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy! Wish you many more with good health and happiness. But…., the
picture would have been even nicer if your arm had been around Dorothy rather than around the lamp post
Come on Travelbug, He is so drunk with happiness that he needs the extra support.
Besides, the post is the center of the pic. LOL.
All the best for your next 50 Garth and Dorothy.
Garth, I’d really like to help you to enjoy this important time with that beautiful babe as much as possible, if you know what I mean.
Please call me asap and I’ll take of that beard for you.
Only $2500 on weekdays
(I’ve been double-vaxxed, btw)
Happy anniversary and wish you all the best!
#112 Sail Away on 08.19.21 at 3:19 pm
I had been noticing the same trend lately…went with the ETF-based approach tho (XBM)…too many years on this blog :)
Congrats, Garth and Dorothy!
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!
Respect
wow, you both look amazing
Congratulations and happy 50th anniversary. You are the very picture of success and happiness in life. Thank you for all you’ve shared with us these many years. Cheers!
Happy Golden Jubilee anniversary, you old lovebirds!
Wish you many more years of togetherness and happiness!
Enjoy every single moment. You know love when you take care of your loved one in hard times. I just lived an altered state of life and death and she was by my side all the way. I was 7 days in a coma and what she felt were signs of love beyond my open heart surgery. Hug her, kiss her and tell her how much you love her. Thank you, my friend.
Congratulations. I am “Mr Happy” not because of money, of which I have enough…but because I have been married to my soul mate and best friend for almost 30 years!
Garth & Dorothy
Congratulations on your 50th Wedding Anniversary!
A wonderful milestone and celebration, I wish you love, health and happiness.
You are a lovely couple, your story is a true inspiration to all of us, cheers…
Congratulations on the first 50 years. Both looking ready and willing for the next 50.
Congratulations to both of you.
Wife and i have been together since high school .
Thats almost 50 years that we have known each other.
Wonderful and Heartfelt Congratulations !!!
Very nice picture Garth. Congratulations on the 50th, stay blessed. :)
Congratz. Very nice picture
Great achievement, congratulations to both of you.
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth.
Beautiful couple inside and out. Wishing you both many happy returns.
Congratulations and that is quite a milestone, given that you started very early. I am glad you are taking the day off!!
Figured I’d bomb at this so I got help from some minions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3u1kvxQvI
And Jack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4ZkbldTsw
Happy Anniversary! :D (great pic btw)
Someone once said; If two people love each other, nothing is impossible. Except deciding where to eat.
Congratulations on fifty years together!
Such a beautiful photo.
Dorothy and Garth evince the wisdom of their 50 years together.
Marry smart.
Marry dignity.
As these two did.
Congrats! As usual your words are full of wisdom and grounded in reality. Thank you!
Fifty years… wow, amazing. Congrats.
And nice mustache btw; gives you an Hercule Poirot look.
Congrats to you both!
Now stop screening comments and enjoy the day/evening…
Congrats to both of you. I especially admire the women who choose to stick around with those of us who don’t seem so stable…
Not to bring too much politics into this Garth, but this is a big sign that you are at heart much more of a social conservative than you admit to.
This is the heart of social conservativism.
In your long list, you didn’t mention leaning on the government or courts to deal with your personal problems and sort out the mess with all the step children, child support etc.
As I have mentioned before, you can’t be a fiscal conservative and a social progressive liberal, the two aren’t compatible.
Promoting life long marriage between husband and wife is at the heart of social conservatism, everything else is noise. The government wouldn’t have fiscal problems if it weren’t paying to be daddy to such a large segment of the population.
My parents going on 59 years soon, hopefully all the covid issues are behind us for a big 60th.
When I met my (to be) wife we discussed our extended families. At the time, not a single divorce among parents, siblings, aunt/uncles and first cousins. We got engaged a couple months after meeting. Our son has been to both sets of grandparents 50th, and that seems to put him in rare company these days, such a shame.
If you sign your kid up for some community sport or activity, all the forms always have places for separate mother and father addresses as that is the common assumption.
History shows that strong families are the best protection against weathering the storms of life, and I will never stop promoting that fact.
Now there’s a beautiful woman! Who’s that clown with the pink necktie? Re-train him with a pink bowtie.
Happy 50th Anniversary!
I am very happy for you and Dorothy, Garth!
Great pic!
I generally Don’t comment here, But had to drop in a line for this occasion, Congratulations !!, Wish you both decades more of togetherness :-), very nicely written post !
Absolutely fantastic! 50 is a milestone and so significant. Like you said, the rest is noise.
You are both an example of what is good about Canada, and what one can aspire to.
Congratulations!
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
Lao-Tzu
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy!
Will add here some quotes from famous book written a couple of thousands years ago or so:
1. “There is no fear in love”
2. “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
A song (from a pretty famous guitarist):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVoJgwLIuNA
Félicitations! Happy 50th anniversary!!!
Congrats to you both! What a milestone 50 years is, just awesome. Thanks for all that you do.
Congratulations on your 50th golden anniversary! Wishing you many more happy years of togetherness.
Awesome, a rare achievment. Congrats to you both.
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy!
#146 AM,FM
As I have mentioned before, you can’t be a fiscal conservative and a social progressive liberal, the two aren’t compatible.
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I agree.
But it seems, the Nova Scotia Cons have figured it out.
Congratulations! We hit 52 years last June, and the adventure continues.
Congratulations on 50 Garth & Dorothy. Both of you, super stylish, love it.
Thanks for being here Garth and for being a great MP. Dorothy, thank you for being there for Garth.
Happy Fiftieth!
She is a saint for having put up with you.
PS “So famed photographer Tony Hauser agreed to do it on the sidewalk in downtown Toronto” I thought you lived in Nova Scotia?
Still hang out in the Big Smoke! – Garth
Congratulations to you both, Garth! Enjoy every day together.
BB
Very happy for you.
A lifelong companion is the rarest and most precious of earthly gems. You are a wealthy man. :)
Congratulations on 50 years as a couple Garth and Dorothy! You are a beautiful and inspiring couple. May you have many more years of health and happiness together. Sending sincere blessings ❤️
Congratulations. That’s an accomplishment
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy
Beautiful post.. Congratulations on the 50th Garth and Dorothy.. Wishing many more years of good health and happiness..
How wonderful! My warmest Congratulations to you both! Wishing you many more happy years together.
“She’s reality. Honesty and trust. She suffers me.”
What a tribute! So good.
Congratulations! 50 years is remarkable.
My wife has suffered me for half that time and I am so blessed to have her.
Thank Dorothy for all of us for permitting you this blogging indulgence.
Well done Mrs. Turner – you did good!
I hope Garth isn’t……. you know – losing interest!
Congrats Garth and Dorothy!
Totally attractive twosome!
Félicitations Garth and Dorothy!
Your blog today is a ray of sunshine and hope.
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth!!!
(Did anyone notify T2 to send them a Congratulatory Certificate??)
Nicely written!
Congrats, sir Garth!
All the best! I feel as tho I have received at least 50 years of good advice from you over the years!
Happy Anniversary! You are so lucky but it is clear from your post that you understand that! Dorothy is the real deal. I am still waiting for a guest post. Love you Dorothy! How do you put up with him? Lol!!!
“She suffers me.”
She has got to be an angel!
Best wishes.
Congratulations, you can’t do it alone.
Congratulations, you actually got me to the comments section!
But seriously, congratulations!
Which blog god crashed the shoot?
I have my chips on:
– Crowded Elevator Fartz
– Freedom First
– Angry Maladjusted Broke Canadian Millennial
– [For those about to] Flop [We salute you]
– 50 YEARS OF MAPLPE LEAF INCONTINENCE
– that Huntsville Cottager dude telling everyone to Just. Stay. Home.
Fabulous Garth! All the best to you and Dorothy. Very inspiring. Thank you for all you do and have done
This was a nice post. Thanks Garth and congratulations.
Congratulations! We’re running 2 years ahead at 52 years. 1969 versus 1971. Good times.
I once asked my uncle what his secret to his long marriage was. His answer: endurance…
Happy Anniversary. Amazing how fluid your career has been yet how constant your relationship is. Priorities!
dat mustache though….
Good for both of you. I wish you many more
Mazal tov, Garth. You hit the spousal jackpot, as did she.
Congratulations to both of you for making good choice 50 years ago.
Thank you so much for keeping this awesome blog and helping so many Canadians.
Congratulations, Garth and Dorothy.
Health, prosperity, and many more years together.
Congratulations!
Congrats and many more.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy, that’s fantastic! Hope the next 50 are even better!
Sincere congratulations, long healthy life and thank you for sharing the warm words about what it really matters in life. Time, love, doing right thing and health.
Hoping both of you have a wonderful anniversary evening!
All of the congrats!!
Never mind the GG – one more decade and you’ll hear from the Queen!
#158 Ponzius Pilatus on 08.19.21 at 5:06 pm
#146 AM,FM
As I have mentioned before, you can’t be a fiscal conservative and a social progressive liberal, the two aren’t compatible.
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I agree.
But it seems, the Nova Scotia Cons have figured it out.
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Sure you can, Germany did it 9x in last 10 yrs, and of course last year was bit to funny, so they dipped bit in minus. Its just that definition, but more like expectation what is conservative is bit different between continents…
Verstehen?!
I know we’ve had our differences recently but for something like this, it’s easy to put them aside.
Congratulations! And many more!
50 is big number, congrats, and all the best!
Congrats!
The picture tells it all
Nurse…
https://rumble.com/vldg3z-san-diego-nurse-resigns-after-vaccine-mandate.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dinesh+D%27Souza&ep=2
Study…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zububrothers.com/2021/08/19/landmark-study-proves-covid-vaccines-much-less-effective-than-advertised/%3famp=1
Once you put it in you can’t take it out.
Congratulations and happy anniversary, Garth & Dorothy!
Golden!
Dorothy is amazing! I absolutely love her for saying that stuff about the blog.
It reminds us (and Garth, but I’m sure you already know) that the opposite sex is vastly different. Venus and Mars stuff. This blog means NOTHING to her! It is mostly ridiculous, silly, but above all, a HUGE WASTE OF TIME. But she knows what it means to Garth. It could be a model train set, or a stamp collection – it doesn’t matter. It’s his hobby, and she loves NOT the hobby, but that he has one.
And we also know that if it was between Dorothy and this blog, the blog would go! LOL!
Thank you Dorothy for being so lovely.
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth! Love the photo!!
my in-laws hit 49 today.
congrats to you and yours.
Congratulations !!! “The 50th wedding anniversary, also known as the golden anniversary, is a milestone to be celebrated – and rightly so! The occasion marks half a century of a loving, committed relationship”
Good deal!
Something still works around here!
You have ten years on us, and 20% better looks too!
Oops, 25% better!
#146 AM in MN on 08.19.21 at 4:30 pm
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Lots of good points and I agree, but still there is nuance.
I’m a Gen x that likes old school values, family, long term plans, second chances, forgiveness, happiness, truth, intellectual honesty, logic, tolerance, and being reasonable when it counts.
That does leave me taking up so-called “lefty” positions from time to time…
Congrats to you both, your greatest acheivment and the envy of many.
Congratulations on your fiftieth. I love the tie. It compliments Dorothy’s attire. Cheers
Just beautiful…
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful milestone with this bunch of weirdoes. A classy gesture from a classy couple.
A glass is being raised to you both. May you make many more such memories.
The longest marriage recorded (although not officially recognized) is an emerald wedding anniversary (90 years) between Karam and Kartari Chand, who both lived in the United Kingdom, but were married in India. Karam and Kartari Chand married in 1925 and died in 2016 and 2019 respectively.
Hang in there Garth and Dorothy. You can do break the record.
Congratulations!!!
Very nice…and your “decades of swirling” allusion to the rapids and pools of any life, resonated. I must confess, I got a little teary.
How nice for you both…favoured by a star!
M57BC
Congratulations to you both and thanks for the blog.
Congratulations to you both! Simply awesome!
Congratulations, Garth!
Happy 50’th Anniversary wishes to both of you (especially more so for Dorothy for all the reasons you have already mentioned).
Wish you excellent health and lesser comments to delete in the posts going forward.
God bless !!!
Many best wishes. We are so fortunate to have good partners, through thick and thin. How is it they did they not smother us in our sleep? We are 45 years married plus a test year which I fudged thankfully.
Two great men as sons and two supurb daughters in law. Grateful and nice to see others at milestones.
Bravo, Garth and Dorothy.
congrats Garth and Dorothy.
my gal and I just entered our 21st year.
Hope we look as dapper as you two
when we reach 50.
Congrats on 50. A very good number , with many more ahead .
CONGRATULAIONS!
Keep doing what you have been doing-it works! In 11 days I will celebrate my 23rd with my heart’s delight, a best friend since 16 years old. Parentless immigrant since 13, you have been an astute parent on these post, and we have listened to your every word. Glass raised
Funny – you’re both leaning slightly to the right! Must be the JT effect…
Dorothy is right, I only come for the pictures and TN’s posts (lately anyway).
And to irritate the PC crowd with: ‘my body, my choice’.
@#146 AM in MN on 08.19.21 at 4:30 pm
Congrats to both of you. I especially admire the women who choose to stick around with those of us who don’t seem so stable…
Not to bring too much politics into this Garth, but this is a big sign that you are at heart much more of a social conservative than you admit to.
This is the heart of social conservativism.
In your long list, you didn’t mention leaning on the government or courts to deal with your personal problems and sort out the mess with all the step children, child support etc.
As I have mentioned before, you can’t be a fiscal conservative and a social progressive liberal, the two aren’t compatible.
Promoting life long marriage between husband and wife is at the heart of social conservatism, everything else is noise. The government wouldn’t have fiscal problems if it weren’t paying to be daddy to such a large segment of the population.
My parents going on 59 years soon, hopefully all the covid issues are behind us for a big 60th.
When I met my (to be) wife we discussed our extended families. At the time, not a single divorce among parents, siblings, aunt/uncles and first cousins. We got engaged a couple months after meeting. Our son has been to both sets of grandparents 50th, and that seems to put him in rare company these days, such a shame.
If you sign your kid up for some community sport or activity, all the forms always have places for separate mother and father addresses as that is the common assumption.
History shows that strong families are the best protection against weathering the storms of life, and I will never stop promoting that fact.
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oh lord lol.
having quality, lasting relationships and a tight family and social conservatism aren’t mutually exclusive.
Garth is about as far from being a social conservative as you can be.
Congrats Garth, wishing you both many more beautiful years together.
Contrats on 50!
Great picture.
Lovely picture of the both of you!
A Happy 50th to a great Canadian couple.
My Squeeze and I are in our 55th. year and since she found me in T.O. those many years ago she’s still trying to identify what breed I am!
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to
him,
Though the sword hidden among his
pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in
him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he
crucify you. Even as he is for your growth
so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and
caresses your tenderest branches that quiver
in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and
shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto
himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred
fire, that you may become sacred bread for
God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your
heart, and in that knowledge become a
fragment of Life’s heart.
‘On Love’
Khalil Gebran, The Prophet
Happy anniversary and to many more!
Congratulations to you both! Absolutely love your stories about life just as much as the ones about finances. Thank you so much for all you do. Truly an inspiration.
A sincere MSU…Happy Anniversary Dorothy and Garth! That’s a beautiful milestone! ❤️❤️
Congratulations to you both Dorothy and Garth!
It is wonderful that you have each other and *so* many people have benefited from the fact that the two of you – yes, the two of you – are in this world.
Garth, thank you for your years of sage advice, which continues to benefit me on a daily basis. So well done sir! A leaven of sanity in a tumultuous world.
Dorothy, thank you for keeping Garth on his feet as he fends off the appalling depths of the online world.
My best wishes to both of you for many more happy, healthy years together.
John
Congratulations on a 50 year she-versary!
Congratulations!
Great picture of you two, Garth. Congratulations :-)
50 down 50 to go! Congratulations on your milestone.
Like the great Gary Zukav says about successful relationships: spiritual partnerships have four main requirements—commitment, compassion, courage and conscious communication. Well done.
Awesome gratulations, my wife and I…I believe have the same anniversary date (32 years), all the best, awesome!
so modest and sincere…
congrats!
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth May you have many more happy years together!
Congratulations Dorothy and Garth wishing you many more happy years together!
Wow, you two are commendable! Thank you for persevering and serving our country. Most importantly, congratulations on your lovely 50th anniversary!
Congratulations! I wish you 50 years more together. :-)
And now that I have seen the picture I figured out who is the real boss in the family. And is not you. :-D
Congratulations! And thanks, for all you do…
Congratulations, and thank you so much, Dorothy.
Your image saved us from yet another deplorable pic of a dogawful mutt today.
Bless you.
Meow.
Congratulations! 50 years together; that’s wonderful. My wife and I have been together for 37 years, and I am very hopeful that she will put up with me for at least another 13.
Happy Anniversary! Nothing like having a partner that knows all your faults and still lets you share their life with them… Cheers
Wonderful accomplishment.
I notice you are both leaning to the right!!!
Blessings to you both!
Congratulations to you both!!
Congratulations!
Wishing you both many, many more!
Geez, I think I have carpal tunnel syndrome from all the scrolling to get to the bottom of all the Dawg Postings so I could send one to you too :D
You are two of the most fortunate humans on the planet in having such a long and loving life together. I have nothing but admiration for both of you and am so grateful to get to be part of your “online family” everyday.
Big, big hugs to you, Dorothy and Garth!! Enjoy your special milestone anniversary.
xoxoxo
Dear Garth and Dorothy,
Congratulations on 50 years! Hope you enjoy many more!
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy.
Congratulations on a wonderful milestone. Been to too many weddings that didn’t make it past the first year.
Finding a person you can spend the rest of your life with is the only true treasure in life. All the best to both of you and many, many more.
Congratulations, we are very lucky to have you guys.
Happy 50th anniversary Dorothy and Garth! What a wonderful milestone, and this post is just the book jacket version. I’m sure there’s some fascinating stories along the way.
We just celebrated our 25th last month.
Congrats Garth and Dorothy. Great couple. Thanks for all you do. Garth, I’m forever grateful for your financial advice.
Enough, now, back to arguing about politics. Trudeau and his cabinet are a bunch of children and deserve to be kicked to the curb.
Congratulations on your anniversary.
Congratulations!
Sincerest congratulations from a long time, grateful reader and first time poster on this very special occasion! And a heartfelt thank-you to Dorothy for allowing you to spend so much time with us (okay I am one now) blog dogs :)
Nice post, Garth.
Love Dorothy’s outfit. Very classy
I don’t post in the comments, but for today Happy Anniversary! Thank you for this blog, it’s life changing, for me.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy, your are what we would call Good people in the Interior of BC…Best of Luck going Forward.
I love you Garth. Love the tie. Picture and a thousand words.
In fact, I’ll drink to anything that makes TurnerNation limit his comments to only two sentences!
A huge relief was had by all!
Congrats Dad.
Congratulations to the both of you!
It’s wonderful to see a couple who enjoy, appreciate and savour that love that is so rare.
Congratulations! That is a real accomplishment.
Thank you for providing the such entertaining wisdom for so many years.
One thing I think my new neighbor might share is we are both introverts with attitude. I will wait to see how that plays out.
I hesitated on the NXR.un IPO offering and missed out. I only wanted a couple hundred at best and did not how I would finance. I do already have hundreds of them so I can wait and still good management I trust.
I have said buying something today means I have to sell something. I do wish to get rid of my debt but it will take more than $500 per month over 10 years to get the job done.
Why do I care with cheap money? Just me and looking at the future.
Congrats, of course. Poor girl.
Congratulations on finding your soul mate and making your life complete.
Thank you for the many years of of having a regular entertaining and educational nightly read.
Cheers to you both!
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy!
I pray I can keep my marriage lasting as long as yours. All the best!
Happy 50th Anniversary Garth and Dorthy! And may there be many more!
A belated very happy 50th anniversary to you and Mrs.T., with wishes of many more years ahead.
Great photo but I have to wonder if it would have been better if it had included a furry friend. Down here in the sunny south, 84 rescue dogs were flown in from a shelter in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. From the photos I’ve seen, pretty sure there’s one that’s the right size, shape, colour and age for almost anyone.
Warm Congratulations to you and Dorothy on your 50th. I love these sorts of pieces. They make you think and reflect and remember what’s truly important in life. I will hit 25 years next year with my hubby and hope one day to make 50.
Nothing is more important…
Félicitations!
Congratulations: You both look fantastic. Great you have each other as anchors. Keep on carrying on. And laugh.
Congrats Garth and Dorothy on your 50th anniversary!
Well said Dorothy.
Congratulations to you both!!
Okay which of you Blog Dogs crashed the love-in?
Did you at least ask for an autograph? For your ethnograph?
That buffet place there on the corner is very popular with the ‘oldsters’.
Congratulations to you both. A rarity these days.
Congratulations – such true words :) We’re celebrating 10 yrs together. Got married when she was 22, me 24. Looking forward to what the future brings. You two are an inspiration. Cheers :)
Congrats! You both deserve all the happiness in the world.
Congratulations. A successful marriage is a beautiful thing.
Garth, can you share the details of the prenup you had Dorothy sign?
Here’s to another 50!
Congrats
Happy Anniversary G&D!
NP Snippet: Smart move O’toole. Get it out there in plain sight. And the Liberals helped him do it. Grazzi.
“The Liberals were probably planning to reach into their reserve and dust off abortion during week three of the campaign, when the fear mongering makes the deepest impact.
But then Erin O’toole did something that threw a wrench into that plan as well. During a campaign stop this week, O’toole unequivocally stated that if elected he would lead a pro-choice government and would ensure that abortion services are available to Canadians everywhere. He said it with confidence and credibility, and it is clear that he plans on saying it as much as needed.
For anyone who has been following O’toole closely, this statement would have come as no surprise. He has been clear that he is prochoice since his election as party leader.
But for the Liberal War Room, it was decidedly off script. Timing wise, abortion was making too early of an appearance on the campaign trail. But more importantly, there was zero ambiguity in O’toole’s statement, which for the Liberals, means no room to wedge.
A panic must have set into the Grit’s campaign HQ, as evidenced by Maryam Monsef’s incoherent eight-part twitter meltdown that came hours after O’toole made this statement. ”
Quebec is going to come on side. Conservative minority at a minimum.
Great post and a wonderful photo! Congratulations!
Congratulations on your 50th!
What a great shot of a cool couple.
Going for the gold! Congrats on 50 awesome years together.
@#292 the Jaguar on 08.20.21 at 10:25 am
NP Snippet: Smart move O’toole. Get it out there in plain sight. And the Liberals helped him do it. Grazzi.
“The Liberals were probably planning to reach into their reserve and dust off abortion during week three of the campaign, when the fear mongering makes the deepest impact.
But then Erin O’toole did something that threw a wrench into that plan as well. During a campaign stop this week, O’toole unequivocally stated that if elected he would lead a pro-choice government and would ensure that abortion services are available to Canadians everywhere. He said it with confidence and credibility, and it is clear that he plans on saying it as much as needed.
For anyone who has been following O’toole closely, this statement would have come as no surprise. He has been clear that he is prochoice since his election as party leader.
But for the Liberal War Room, it was decidedly off script. Timing wise, abortion was making too early of an appearance on the campaign trail. But more importantly, there was zero ambiguity in O’toole’s statement, which for the Liberals, means no room to wedge.
A panic must have set into the Grit’s campaign HQ, as evidenced by Maryam Monsef’s incoherent eight-part twitter meltdown that came hours after O’toole made this statement. ”
Quebec is going to come on side. Conservative minority at a minimum.
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its amusing watching the cons out-liberal the liberals.
strange days indeed.
Congratulations on 50.
Congratulations to both of you, fifty looks wonderful wishing for many more.
Great photo! Wishing you and Dorothy all the best. Thanks for the blog.
Congratulations Garth and Dorothy,
I have to agree with Dorothy and how the steerage comments on the dog photos but I also have been reading this blog and I looked forward to not only the great advice but the funny photos not of dogs but more fails of the people.
I still have a memory etched in my grey matter of the carpenter cutting his rough 2nd floor 2×4’s lengthways flush but having his body on the side where he would fall to the ground if he continued to cut his intended line!
Thanks again, onwards to 51, kampai!
#210 IHCTD9 on 08.19.21 at 8:07 pm
Lots of good points and I agree, but still there is nuance.
I’m a Gen x that likes old school values, family, long term plans, second chances, forgiveness, happiness, truth, intellectual honesty, logic, tolerance, and being reasonable when it counts.
That does leave me taking up so-called “lefty” positions from time to time…
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There’s nothing partisan about decency.
A big issue with warring parties is the rejection of good ideas just because they are supported by the ‘enemy team’.
Everybody should keep their own counsel. Accept or reject positions on the merits of those positions, not because of some party line.
Lovely picture of the two of you!
Made my day.
Congratulations Mr. Turner. This is not a common thing these days unfortunately and I hope you feel very lucky.
Best wishes for many more years
LOL. God I can only pray that that fools that follow Mr Socks wake up and or stop drinking the Lib coolaide..
Or were really toast…you have no idea.
This just in!
‘He’s wrong.’ Former BoC governor David Dodge blasts Trudeau on monetary policy quip.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/he-s-wrong-david-dodge-blasts-trudeau-on-monetary-policy-quip-1.1642178
Socks = nuts
I mention here before all you UBI CERB hopefuls will end up with your little pay cheque being worthless.
https://omny.fm/shows/money-talks-with-michael-campbell/campbell-comment-aug-20
Happy Anniversary! Congratulations
Wow, what a beautiful picture! You two look great… and are an inspiration to many of us. Congratulations Garth and Dorothy!! Wishing you many more happy moments today and ever.
Thank you for sharing this milestone with us :)
All the best Mr. T and Dorothy.
Best wishes for many many more Anniversaries.
Thank you for the information of your blog.
30 year mortgages!!! Noice!
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ndp-outlines-plan-to-make-canadian-real-estate-more-affordable-164910051.html
#301 Sail Away on 08.20.21 at 11:51 am
#210 IHCTD9 on 08.19.21 at 8:07 pm
Lots of good points and I agree, but still there is nuance.
I’m a Gen x that likes old school values, family, long term plans, second chances, forgiveness, happiness, truth, intellectual honesty, logic, tolerance, and being reasonable when it counts.
That does leave me taking up so-called “lefty” positions from time to time…
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There’s nothing partisan about decency.
A big issue with warring parties is the rejection of good ideas just because they are supported by the ‘enemy team’.
Everybody should keep their own counsel. Accept or reject positions on the merits of those positions, not because of some party line.
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Agreed…common good should be the pillar for democracy. More recall legislation is needed to keep folks honest and focused on upholding the integrity of our institutions.
Happy 50th
Happy 50th Anniversary Garth and Dorothy!
You are well suited to one another, and that makes for a good marriage.
Wishing you good health and much happiness together!
Thank you for all that you do. It is much appreciated.
From your Dog Blog followers, and happy clients.
Thanks for sharing this photo. My wife and I both said “Aw”. You make a very cute couple. Happy Anniversary!
Congrats!
Great picture. Happy Anniversary!
Beautiful pic Garth!! Thanks for sharing
Reading this a little late… both of you lookin’ great. Congrats on winning the lottery!
Married 3 times and none lasting longer than 3 years and swore off women forever. Twelve years of that and Ottilia met me in a bus station in Hungary. Been traveling the same route for 18 years since – we’re inseparable and I ask myself almost daily “How did this happen?” She’s a gem and loves me fiercely.
What a timeless shot.. I wish my wife and I will get there, and remain this good looking!
Love the mustache Garth!
Congratulations Turners. You look great and deserve it. Cheers!
Congratulations! What a great looking couple. What relationship advice can you offer besides, balance and diversify?!
Beautiful couple. Priceless photo. Congratulations to both of you.
Congrats to you both – lovely picture!