July has been wet. I don’t mind. It means I don’t have to water the garden and I can save some money and some energy. With all the rain, of course, the garden is lush. It’s hard to imagine the barrenness of Winter with the sunny Rudbeckia in bloom. The rain has also kept me […]
We’re back from a few days vacation. My daughter had a week off, so I booked and AirBnB in Collingwood. It was a nice spot with a shared pool, near biking trails and a pleasant walk to the village. The “drill,” when we go away is: 1. I buy a jig saw puzzle and spend
Most of my Joy this week came from a very unjoyous event – my wallet was stolen. On Wednesday June 12, I was having coffee with a friend at Aroma. I hooked my handbag over the arm of my chair and let it rest on the ground at my feet. I then put a shopping
This last week ended with Canada Day, July 1. We celebrated as a family, which included a friend who has been part of our family for almost 50 years. It’s comforting to know that we live in a country that is not at war, has (until Ford destroys it) decent medical care, respects democracy, is
On Wednesday I bought the book “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” It has added a good deal of Joy to my week. I wrote about the book in an earlier post so I won’t bore you with repetition. Writing lots of words strung together and contemplating individual words give me a lot of Joy. Fortunately
This week it rained. I have been praying for rain for weeks now. Well my prayers have been answered. I have also been praying for a lot of other “things;” I guess rain was the easiest to deliver. 🙂 The garden needed rain. This is the Yin Yang of gardening. We need rain. It comes
…..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
