The sun was streaming in this morning and filtering through a crystal I have hung in the studio window. This gorgeous light is supposed to switch to hail, ice pellets (industrial hail), sleet and freezing rain. It’s -5C now, -10C with the windchill. Yum. Going to try to get a run in BEFORE all that…
Argentia
On Monday, John and I took a reconnaissance drive to Argentia to poke around and see what there was to see and to determine if there was anything substantial worth exploring on a more lengthy trip. We bombed out the highway and then headed down the Argentia Access Road towards the base. Argentia was originally…
Stranded
We have one car. We also live about ten kilometers from the centre of the St. John’s. There is no public transportation to and from Torbay, other than taxi. It would be lovely if there were some sort of a shuttle bus, but, in truth, we manage just fine. Some days, I drive John in…
If you love your pets….
In this province you hear stories about house fires on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes it’s someone doing something bone-headed like cooking with grease in an open saucepan or burning green wood for a winter, not getting their chimney cleaned and then WHOOSH!, the following autumn everything goes up in smoke. Sometimes it’s electrical. There…
A taste until later….
Yesterday John had a day off (st. Patrick’s Day) and Katherine was in school (schools don’t celebrate St. P), so we packed the dog in the car and took off for Placentia Bay. The weather called for sunny periods, but sunny flickers might have been a more apt description. Luckily the clouds cooperated by being…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 