Sept 1, 2010
I will be chopping up my Sears card forthwith. Today was the straw that broke this camel's back. I have a guest from far away coming in November. Our guest room is all ready except for one little thin...
Aug 30, 2010
How do you like my new car?...
Aug 30, 2010
I'm wearing my thumb brace again. The fleshy part below that digit is sore and any type of gripping motion is excruciatingly painful. I don't know what caused it this time; maybe cutting up a watermel...
Aug 29, 2010
There is a yapper gabby gene in our family. It's on DH's side and it's a dominant gene as most of our grandchildren have it. Like baby birds waiting to be fed they gather round and yak up a storm. The...
Aug 28, 2010
Tomorrow DH and I are taking our three local grandsons, ages six, eight and twelve, to McLean Mill, a nearby national historic site. We'll take them to the 1912 Canadian Pacific Railway station locate...
Aug 27, 2010
Deceitful Dauphin, Manitoba has had 1,500 fraudulent e-mail votes removed from their count. You would think that allowing them to vote every 12 hours would be enough for them. Hopefully they won't be ...
Aug 26, 2010
Port Alberni is in the numero uno spot for the title of Ultimate Fishing Town, a contest put on by the World Fishing Network. It doesn't seem like much of a contest when you are allowed, nay encourage...
Aug 26, 2010
A great article *POOF, gone, sucked into cyberspace*. Maybe I'll try again later....
Aug 25, 2010
Sounds daunting doesn't it? Actually, it was. For years I've wanted The Wall. The whole wall all to myself. I would fill it with family photos going back to our great-great-grandparents and forward to...
Aug 23, 2010
Every August Sears puts out a catalogue called "The Christmas Wish Book". The newspaper I deliver for has a contract with Sears to also deliver their catalogues. Last week I received 18 for delivery a...
Aug 20, 2010
The Salvation Army came this afternoon to pick up our old kitchen table and the queen size bed we'd had in the guest room. I asked if they had room on their truck for my favourite knitting chair which...
Aug 19, 2010
I waited over two and a half months for these visitors and they were well worth the wait. Today I got to meet someone who is no longer an imaginaryfriend but a real live, flesh and blood person.I also...
Aug 17, 2010
Well, this summer passed all too quickly. DD#1's daycare provider did a vanishing act so guess who ended up babysitting. How come I can't have the kids that can watch TV, wipe their own butts and fetc...
Aug 17, 2010
It's still on my needles but I had to add two more circular needles in order to stretch it out so you can see the lace. It looked prettier in the partial photo I saw of someone else's attempt at this ...
Aug 15, 2010
Started out nice. DH took me out to Smitty's Pancake House for breakfast and it isn't even my birthday. On the way home we stopped at Safeway for some groceries and then he spent the afternoon napping...