In this province you hear stories about house fires on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes it’s someone doing something bone-headed like cooking with grease in an open saucepan or burning green wood for a winter, not getting their chimney cleaned and then WHOOSH!, the following autumn everything goes up in smoke. Sometimes it’s electrical. There…
Category: animals
Cats large and small
We paid a studio visit* to Kelly Smith Mollins’ (Dancing Cat Clayworks) house today to pick up a pair of pottery dancing cats and to visit eight live ones. Smokey was feeling particularly photogenic: And he looks rather different from the side… In order to work in the very low light conditions I switched to…
Bits and pieces
My sister and I took a meander outside of town today to Chapel’s Cove. We had a nice little visit with Linda and the critters at Baynoddy and a pleasant lunch at The Pantry in Holyrood (huge portions, not expensive and very good!). I didn’t take all that many photos as it was more of…
What I didn’t know about chickens…
We visited a friend’s homestead over the weekend, during our adventures in Conception Bay North. Knitting guru Laurie LeGrow has a lovely little house in the woods where she keeps chickens, gardens, a formidable home winery, three dogs, a cat named Spider, and a fellow named Sam. Sam, in turn, keeps lovebirds, of which I…
A Moment
On my way to a meeting this morning, I stopped to drink my coffee near the RNC horse stables on Government House grounds. It was a beautiful morning and would have felt like one of those soft, summer’s mornings, but for the fact that it’s February and was akin to minus eight Celsius. The sun…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 