In line at a coffee shop while at Katherine’s swimming lesson: Very Nice Jamaican Server: What can I get for you? Me: I’ll have a large coffee and a pumpkin muffin. John? John (who has been suffering intensely with laryngitis): I’ll have a large coffee, black and a new voice, if you have one back…
Category: apropos of nothing
Introducing “Flat Katherine”
Meet Flat Katherine: Flat Katherine is a variant on “Flat Stanley (wikipedia link)”, which I first encountered as an idea during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The Flat Stanley Project is a literacy endeavour based on the books about Stanley Lambchop, a flattened child who can go virtually anywhere because of his two-dimensionality. During the Olympics,…
An indoor day
I checked my stats on geocaching.com and discovered that we seem to do most of our caching in October. This sort of fits, since in October, it’s *usually* not snowing, the rain *sometimes* isn’t horrendous and there are no bugs. Plus the Christmas mayhem hasn’t hit yet and the foliage is spectacular. October is just…
The gadget conundrum
For the past several years, I have been swimming in papers, borrowing laptops and leaving stacks of notes around the house from meetings. The work on various Craft Council committees (as well as my own researches and photography) generate a slew of wreckage in their wake and also mess up my house. This reached a…
Exploits 2011, part 2: The Continuing Saga
Weeks two and three of this year’s trip to Exploits were much sunnier! John and Moss arrived, with Heather, Bob and Eleanor. The day they arrived was cloudy and as soon as the boat entered the cove, the heavens opened and it poured. And poured. Then it rained some more. We hauled everything up to…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 