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…
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Family Fun and Photos
Spear Bay Spear Bay Photos by VickyTH. Thanksgiving weekend is usually a full one around our place, as John’s birthday happens to correspond with it and usually entails at least one celebration, often two. This year we did the birthday thing in two batches again, but John’s family’s gathering was last weekend and at someone…
Serendipitous weekend
butterflies on butterfly bush Photos by VickyTH. The weekend started out rotten. John was exhausted after yet another long week and we both woke up Saturday morning feeling crabby. The sky was grey and unpromising and the day was full of a thousand things that needed doing by four o’clock. To top it all off,…
Occasional glimpses that we’re doing something right
Praise: Yesterday, as I was working on a few details of the prototype of the new ornaments, I showed Katherine what I’d done. She was fascinated, as she usually is with anything that anyone makes, and wanted to “help”. I gave her the job of Bead Helper (which, in case you didn’t realise it, means…
Kicking of self in the pants
It’s actually harder than it looks, especially if you don’t settle for the heel-kicking action. A good, solid instep kick in the behind is truly impossible to achieve for yourself, which is why most of us need a catalyst (really desperate cases need a catapult, but I’m not quite there yet). Last week Sharon LeRiche…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 