…..From several weeks of trying to “frack” Joy from the slate of “nothing interesting to report,” there comes the motherload of refinable Joys. 1. My son has spent five splendid days with us. He was out East (from Calgary) for a wedding and stayed with us for a whole week before going back home!! Totally […]
…OK, I keep a gardening journal to remind me of what I need to do next Spring. Rearranging a garden is a little like rearranging a room, except that it’s usually done in Spring and can take 2 or 3 years to see the results. The picture below is the result of an entry in
I am a warm weather person. As a family, we went to Florida in August. I could live in the tropics. How I ended up in the cold of Canada is something I often ask myself. This last week, though, was a warming up week. Everyday that the temperatures nudged up – 14ºC, 15ºC, 16ºC…
It’s been a quiet week leading up to a long weekend. Monday is a statutory holiday in honour of Queen Victoria. I’m sorry. I’m a royalist and I celebrate our connections to Britain, if only for the traditions that give purpose and meaning (maybe) to our lives. The 24th of May, or whenever it is
This week, my eldest sent me a text to say that he and his partner had put in an offer to purchase 80 acres of land in Northern Ontario. I had promised him a small sum from his uncle’s estate, for any real estate investment. That small sum, has paid for a sizable piece of
I probably should have said the Joy of new windows, but the disruption of any sort of renovation takes away a lot of the Joy!! Still I have 3 new windows at the front of the house upstairs and the main window downstairs clad in the same colour as the upstairs windows, so I never
I have a list…yes, OK, I have dozens of list. They are there to avoid a “listless life” – no pun intended!! One of the items on my list for the front of the back yard…..(it’s a big yard)…is to stop a basement window sill from rotting. “Something there is that doesn’t like a wall
Mostly the weather this week has been very “unjoyous.” After a week of summer, we are back into the cold and grey of a Winter/Spring. However, coffee this week with a friend was joyous! In fact my friend recommended a book that I might like – “Obscure Sorrows.” The author, John Koenig, creates words based
OK, I probably didn’t have to put the word, ovenable, in quotation marks. It is a word, as words go, however, I have never heard it before. Yes, I have a Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and it is, sad to say, not in it. Well, it’s an old edition. I actually found the word “ovenable”
I am always amazed at the energy generated by warmer weather and longer days. When it’s cold and dark, I have very little desire to get things done. However, as soon as the snow melts and the days lengthen I have the enthusiasm to “do a million things at once.” As I have said before,
