Last Saturday was Toronto’s 8th Nuit Blanche, an amazing all night Art event. From 7:00pm to 7:00am huge crowds fill the downtown areas of the city to view an incredible array of art installations. My husband and I have gone out every year, rain or shine. This time, the weather was almost balmy, with just […]
I am slowly mending the pieces of my life that decided to fall apart this month. OK it is Fall, but do we have to take it literally!! First, we managed to get a contractor to install a new shower in the bathroom, after the old one started leaking. Two weeks without a shower is,
Yesterday, I wrote about how the cosmos was ganging up on me and starting to slowly dismantle all the bits and bobs that help me glue my life together, like dinner!! How could I keep everything from falling apart, if I couldn’t cook a hot meal from time to time. You see, my stove quit
I wasn’t aware that there was some secret date upon which the cosmos decrees that your life should fall apart, or at least the pieces that make your life enjoyable such as: 1. Showers – Some time in late August our bathroom shower decided to fall apart – tiles fell off the wall, shower heads
The celtic feast of Samhain is Oct 31. It’s a time when the veil between our world and the nether world, the world of spirits, is very thin. I have written about Samhain before. It is a time of mourning, a time of connecting with those who have gone before us and a time of
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We all know that language changes over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes and other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage also changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a regular formation. For example we rarely, if
I laughed the first time I read the letters TLDR, which mean “too long, didn’t read.” It’s a text or twitter phrase, which not so politely tells you your communication was too long. Alas, we live in an abbreviated world. We like short quick blasts of information, preferably of the more exciting kind – dare
……..this iconic cottage chair was originally known as the Westport plank chair and was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. As the story goes, Lee showed the design to a local carpenter, Harry Bunnell, who in need of some winter revenue, secured a patent for the chair and started manufacturing it, en masse in 1905.
I have to catch up on a few posts in the blog-a-day challenge for 2013, so I hope that you don’t mind the travelogue. Yesterday I posted about starting a two-day mini vacation in Muskoka, a cottage area about 2+ hours’ drive from Toronto. We decided on this “impromptu” weekend away mainly, because our bathroom was
I haven’t posted in a a few days because my husband and I went away for the weekend. Since we weren’t going to have a functioning bathroom until Monday, we decided that we had to make other plans. This all began last January, well before the tiles started to fall off the wall in the
