Hip-yer-partner Sally Thibault Hip-yer-partner Sally Brown Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton’s Harbour, All around the circle I’ve wanted to go “all around the circle” for years and years, but have never made the time. Each year we drive up to Cottlesville (north of Gander, south of Twillingate), take the boat across to Exploits Islands and after a…
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Exploits vacation 2011, part 1
This year was a mixed bag on Exploits Islands (Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland). During our first week down, it was cold, the wood stove was not installed in the main house, Mom got horribly, awfully sick and it rained. And rained. And was cold. And wet. Still, we managed to have a good deal of…
It’s Monday
We had our Craft Council Annual General Meeting over the weekend and I’m just plain tired. Today is a day for puttering around the house, doing a myriad of odd jobs and playing a bit with some new ideas in the studio. It’s also Monday, with a capital “M”. I was cutting a piece of…
Still reeling
In Newfoundland, the May 24th weekend is the stuff of legends.It is the first long weekend of the summer (a term used loosely here) and people haul out the RVs, dig out their tents, stock up on booze, break out the barbeques and some (cough) “put in” their gardens. Victoria Day or “the two-four”, as…
If we had some ham….
Caroline (our car, so-named by Katherine during her Thomas the Tank Engine phase) is in the shop today getting her spring servicing. She’s a great little car, very obliging, and I don’t in the least begrudge her a day at the auto-spa. Of course, as always happens at such times, I realized that I needed…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 