It rained for a week or more. The ground was soggy. The air moist and we were going stark raving mad with cabin fever. So we decided to go swimming this morning. Apparently, while a good IDEA, swimming is a scary, miserable, rotten and angst-inspiring REALITY for Katherine. She went to bed talking about going…
Category: family
Aneurythms
The term comes from "Wanted Words", a book (or set, actually, as there are two volumes) by Jane Farrow that grew out of her fascinating CBC show that no longer airs (for reasons passing understanding and most likely having to do with funding). It refers to a song that will not get out of your…
What have we done?
We have a lot of books in our house. One of the things on which we pride ourselves on is having books that reflect our interests; tomes that can be pulled from the shelf at need to reveal information or solve debates. We have a Concise Oxford English dictionary in the house that floats from…
Road test & photo forays
So we replaced the poor blue Tercel with an Echo, the car that replaced the Tercel in 2000. They've since stopped making the Echo and now make a vehicle called the Yaris. Cool car, stupid name. Anyway, here's the new car. We picked it up on Thursday and took it out for a highway test…
Our car philosophy
It's quite simple, really. Buy as little car as you can make do with under normal operating conditions, but buy the best you can afford without stretching. For many years, we did not own a car. We did not have to carve out chunks of our flesh to make ridiculous insurance payments and we did…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 