Skybluepinkish commented on my post yesterday that life was too short to peel hazelnuts. Her comment got me thinking about all the things that I omit doing because they are too fiddly or time consuming to be bothered with. For example: 1. I never seed tomatoes and rarely peel them. When the recipe instructions call […]
I had started a while ago celebrating “things” around the house in an effort to enrich the daily slog. I decided that I didn’t have to actually go out and “buy” something to give me a lift. I could just try to lift up something that I already had, thereby making my life a little
I came across a blog today by Dannie Wallace, that asked me to describe myself in one word. I took about a minute to come up with the word “determined.” My life, in general, has been easier than some. I don’t struggle with a major medical condition. I was able to go to university, get
The word of the day, the other day, was “placate” – to appease or try to please. Well, obviously we, up here in the North, have not been living properly or something, because the “gods” are not happy with us. Therefore, they are withholding Spring. We need to placate them, some how. Human sacrifice used
I read a post the other day that talked about the importance of “titles.” Not the regal kind – “sir – such and such” or “dame – whatever.” They were talking about the titles that you give your posts and how important that is in attracting blog traffic etc…etc…etc. I can generally do the hooks
I read in the paper the other day about a woman who had to be rescued by helicopter from a ledge on one of the the hiking trails near Sedona. She had been on the ledge for about 30 hours, before a crew got to her. She was lucky. She might never have been found,
There are a lot of cliches that people use for the concept of “covering their downside.” It tends to be a financial/stock market term, which means that you spread your investments over a broad spectrum, so that if one “goes down” there are others that will hopefully come to fruition and you won’t be totally
I am sitting here at my kitchen table and thinking that I really need to do a blog post in the next 12 hours and what should I write about, that isn’t a video – I’ve done a lot of those lately – but is still “significant” so as not to waste a reader’s time,
A fellow blogger in one of my Blogging groups Patricia Wycoff, posed a challenge within a challenge. Someone is to suggest a topic and then all of us write on that topic. Patricia offered to go first and suggested writing about “a place that was other than what you thought it was going to be.”
The other day we went to an area on Lake Ontario that has a community of people who live in houseboats. Now, I am fascinated by houseboats. I am not sure that I am the type of person who needs to be on water all the time, but I can understand that need in others and
