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…
Category: Household
The Dogs to Whom We Have Gone
I rarely actually mention the dogs these days, mostly because they're not a problem. Amazing how much more creative we can be when writing about things that are a nuisance or drive us crazy than about those facets of our life which hum along quietly. When I started this blog, we had four dogs. Since…
Hic, haec, hoc, wheeze (huius), wheeze, wheeze….
I've always thought that the demonstrative pronouns in Latin sounded like a bad cold, which is what I have. I spent Friday night hacking, felt better Saturday and so ran around a Car Seat Clinic all day-long, paid for it that night and Sunday was a walking zombie whose husband let her go back to…
Brigus Eye Candy
The forecast called for a reasonably good Saturday (cloudy with sunny periods) and a crummy Sunday (rain), so we high-tailed it out of town first-thing Saturday morning. We went to Brigus, a small, historic community in Conception Bay (population of around 784. Give or take.) Our plan was simple: pick a place with good colours…
Some Days: Creative juices fizzled by fate
Yesterday John got walloped from behind by a Ford Ranger. When you're driving a Tercel (think small), getting hit by such an animal is a bit of a jolt to the system. John was feeling okay yesterday, but is now becoming progressively more sore. Our car couldn't get much sorer: To make matter even more…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 