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…

Bloggin’ & friends

I sent this article by Doug Johnston of A Million Monkeys Typing off to a friend and then realised that it was more efficient to pass it along to a bunch of friends via the web. This is, after all, part of the basic point of a blog. Well worth a read! Speaking of reading…

Shiny happy people laughing & taking pictures

We all went out to Cape Spear on Sunday in the hopes that the sky would clear (it didn't) and it would become sunny and blue (it wasn't). Despite that, we managed to have a fun time. The swell on the ocean was tremendous. Apparently we're to get a pile of snow tonight (whose dumb…

More eye candy, for those who love the sea

In an attempt to get more sunlight, throw off my funk and get some exercise, Katherine, Wikket and I walked to Middle Cove Beach again this morning. The sun was warm enough that I was able to walk in my shirt sleeves, at least while we were moving and I was pushing the stroller. Katherine…

“Look Marge, we caught another one!”

Photo credit: From iron wrought, originally uploaded by John_TH. You know those jokes where an old couple does something like set up a phoney road sign and watch for tourists who fall prey to their misguiding ploys. One of them always calls out to the other, “Look, Soandso, we caught another one!” (In particular, I…