I was musing in a post the other day about the branding of baking soda. The box was on the counter, because I had to remind myself, or my husband, to pick up more. Even though it is a cleaner, the symbol of the arm and hammer was just a little too industrial for my […]
It was one of those days. You know, toss a lot of good and bad together, add a little dressing of humour and you get salad days 🙂 maybe. It went like this – 1. I decided to walk to work. Since the postman and a neighbour had to push my car out of the
My husband has been trolling the site Homeaway.com for an apartment to rent for a week in Paris this summer. Last year we rented an apartment for a week in Rome and then one for another week in Cinque Terre. This combination worked so well that this June we have decided to spend a week in
It’s snowing again today – blizzard conditions. My husband walked to work – safer than taking the car, maybe. I was wondering, if you own your own business, who has the authority to “call” a snow day? Yes, I guess it’s me and since I don’t feel like walking to work and I definitely don’t
Last Saturday, my daughter was going out to dinner and then to a movie. As I’m always interested in a good restaurant, I asked her where she was going. Apparently, they were going to a place called “Bamburger.” I immediately thought of Bambi!! I wasn’t worried that they were serving venison, I just had this
Being kept in because of the weather has its advantages. For example, I cook more and I try a few new recipes. Yesterday we had something that could be called Pulled Pork. We told the kids that anyway, so that they would eat it. It was actually just a pork shoulder roast which began on
I have said before, many times in fact, that I live in a country where it warms up to snow!!! Well, the weather has been hovering around -20ºC for almost a month, now and although it’s been often quite sunny, it’s been far too cold to take a walk longer than from the house to
…or maybe that should be, find your word mate. Someone posted a comment to one of my blogs and mentioned the site www.favoritewords.com. This is a site where you can store your favourite word or words and find people who have the same favourite words as you. You do have to login. I haven’t gone
I couldn’t believe it when I saw the notice on my FB wall, Pete Seeger had died. I don’t know why I somehow thought that he would live forever. His obituary in the NY Times is a wonderful tribute, to a man for all reasons. Anyone who has ever sung, “Good-Night Irene,” “Where Have All The
My husband does the grocery shopping. It started a long time ago when his mother came to visit us once, for seven weeks. I didn’t realize that she ate only meat and potatoes. In fact a second vegetable on a plate, at her house, was often potatoes, cooked another way. Sigh. So I made the
