Just when you think that you have seen everything, along comes a concept that reminds you that you have only just scratched the surface. This realization, in turn, reminds you of how finite you really are and how infinitely small your brain really is, sigh!! I have been resisting Twitter. Well, I’m “on” Twitter and […]
I have been nominated for a blogging award, The Liebster, by a star blogger Muriel Jacques. This is indeed an honour! The procedure is as follows: 1. Answer the 11 questions asked by Muriel. 2. Nominate 11 new bloggers. 3. Create 11 questions for them to answer.. So here goes – Muriel’s question and then
The other day I posted about my “problem” finding an inexpensive soap dish for our new shower wall. I finally caved in and decided to drive out to this store that was listed as having the only $5.00 soap dish in the world, that one could screw into a shower wall. It was miles away
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
……..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 always like those crazy celebration days and I think that the site Holidayinsights.com has one of the best lists. According to the site, September 28 is “ask a stupid question day.” Now I have asked many stupid questions over the years and some of the greatest thinkers in the world have asked what seemed like
I have to believe that you may be defined by the fairy tales that you have read, either to yourself or to your children. I always read “The Little Red Hen” to my kids. It’s a story of Russian origin with strong entrepreneurial, even capitalist overtones. I’m not really the “Donald Trump” of mothers, but
The province of Quebec in Canada has proposed a law banning all obvious religious symbols in the form of jewellery and clothing for people working in government jobs, i.e. civil servants. This provincial bill would contravene our national statutes for freedom of religion, which operate at the federal level. But then Quebec has rarely considered
