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,
….. OK every once in a while the cosmos delivers a week of pure Joy! Maybe it’s a dividend for months of Winter’s hardship or maybe it’s just a random numbers “thing” – you know the more you hang in there the more you get. I’m not sure what the rationale is or if there
….I wrote about Snowdrop Joy a few posts ago. I think it was late February or early Match and it was about one very brave Snowdrop. I now have masses…OK….lots of Snowdrops up in the garden. If tomorrow is a good day, I’ll try to rake the leaves around the patches and give them some
After a week of chaos, I now have a new dining room ceiling. It’s been painted, as have the walls to the wainscotting. The furniture is back in place and every inch of the room has been scrubbed clean. I also decluttered as I went, so I now have a box of odds and ends
I’m in chaos right now – 1. The dinning room is in the living room. 2. My bedroom is covered in drop sheets. 3. The spare room is full of bedding etc. from the other rooms. OK, I could ask the cat to move over, but his bed is a bit small. I had not
