Warm, wet weekend

I wrote this once and my geriatric computer couldn’t handle working just one more second while it saved and so I’m now writing it again. Hopefully as well as before. The weekend was unseasonably warm and, not being fools, we decided to drop the normal housework and take full advantage of being able to wear…

Shadows of the past…

Every so often, I do something odd that reminds me of my vestigal New Brunswick habits. Like just now. I walked into the bathroom, emptied my coffee into the sink and rinsed out my mug. Normal people use the kitchen for such activities. When we lived in New Brunswick, we didn’t have a kitchen. We…

Seven children in a house full of sugar

Last year, we held a gingerbread party for the children of our close family and friends. Kids and parents came along, brought obscene amounts of candy and jointly supervised the application of ridiculous quantities of icing to gingerbread igloos. The igloos were because making seven houses seemed too much like work…. This year we did…

Melba

   On Friday, a sunny, crisp day, our greyhound Melba made her trip to the Rainbow Bridge. It’s taken me a few days to pull myself together enough to write this and, truth to tell, I’m not doing much better now than I was then. While I have no regrets about our part in Melba’s…

Take this weekend out and shoot it

Luke is floored Photos by VickyTH. The road to my house is well-paved, let me tell you. Not that my house or family is in any way hellish, just that there are a myriad of good intentions and obligations waiting on my doorstep to smack me in the face as soon as I open the…