While no one was watching….

Katherine and I spent some time out in the yard today, tidying things and spraying sand in about eight different directions. She had a blast. Moss discerned that hoses are really related to snakes and need pouncing upon, vigourous shaking and the deft application of very sharp teeth. At least, that’s his story. Mine varies…

Election time. Again.

I usually refrain from writing these overly serious posts because, by the time I get around to it, everything has been said anyway. Not to mention that every source of Canadian news is bombarding us with election facts, photos and posturing, much of which I disregard as repetitious and the rest of which often seems…

Moved “house”

I was finding many features of blogspot inadequate and so have moved this blog here, to WordPress. I’ve shifted the entries, but have yet to fix broken internal links and fiddle with formatting. Over the next week or so, I intend to do just that. So be patient! If you find links that don’t work…

Smoke alarms: what you don’t know might kill a night’s sleep

Woke up at 5:57 this morning to the alarm clock going off. While I knew John had to be up and out the door early, there were two things wrong with the situation that my pre-caffeinated brain could discern. Firstly, the alarm was set for 6:25, which, even without coffee, I can tell is different…

Men are odd

Okay, so I googled it. I figured it was just him being lazy, unobservant, out of clean clothes or simply weird. (We’re talking about a man who honestly cannot tell the difference between ironed and unironed shirts, just to give you some context.) I thought that perhaps underwear had the same problem as tube socks…