“Look Marge, we caught another one!”

Photo credit: From iron wrought, originally uploaded by John_TH. You know those jokes where an old couple does something like set up a phoney road sign and watch for tourists who fall prey to their misguiding ploys. One of them always calls out to the other, “Look, Soandso, we caught another one!” (In particular, I…

Another successful photo hunt

John getting a camera is a wonderful thing. Now it’s definitely not so much a case of us going somewhere and him watching Katherine while I shoot photos. We both get a chance to have fun. Today we went to the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada). We snuck…

Photo hunting again….

One of the things that John and I loved doing in the Days Before Katherine was photo taking together. We’d drag our equipment around from place to place, shooting whatever caught our fancy. Film and developing got to be expensive and time became a highly-desireable, yet rarely-present, commodity after Katherine’s birth, so we fell out…

Because we’re Canadian, eh?

Friday evening was a usual Friday; that undefinable combination of exhaustion, relief, relaxation, dread of the weekend errands and frustration that the weekend seems already to have been gobbled up by a dozen events or occurrences. I was wandering the web in search of entertainment and found the National Mitten Registry. You read me right….

The spawn

So we arrived home late-ish one evening and had to unload kid, groceries and other assorted goods from the car. As is our usual habit, we negotiated who would do what as we pulled into the drive. The following ensued: John: Right. Groceries, my briefcase, Katherine’s stuff…. How are we going to do this? Me:…