Merry Anni-birth-mas!
As we celebrate – in a row – our ninth anniversary, Derek’s birthday and Christmas, I’m bathed in gratitude.
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Palm Christmas
As we settle into our new home, we will continue our (relatively new) tradition of gathering ’round the palm-Christmas-tree.
…Thankful Thursday: Handy Hubby
Our new home was built in 1940 and had an addition put on sometime in the 1980s or 90s. When we moved in, we didn’t even consider the narrowness of the main staircase.Â
…Making a House a Home
“New toilet’s in!”
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Date Night in Wallaceburg
We were delighted that we’d be living in Wallaceburg by the time an art and music event was scheduled to take place at the town’s museum.
…Dear House Bidders
You’re a wonderful young couple who wrote a heart-felt letter along with your bid for our house. We were moved by your excitement about our home and empathized with how long you’d looked for the perfect place to start your family. Your words really did move us.Â
…Happy Chaos
Does anyone really like moving? Moving companies, I suppose. It gets easier the more times you do it but I haven’t done it in a decade.
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Thankful Thursday: Harry Leslie Smith
We spend too much of our time listening to the wrong people. An unintelligent (alleged) billionaire blathers into our daily consciousness. Rap stars grab headlines for arguments about nothing. Idiot politicians congratulate themselves for their failures. So. Much. Noise. …
Thankful Thursday – A Friend in the Kitchen
Our friend Britney introduced me to cauliflower rice and now I make the darn stuff every week! …
Cat Tales
The main statement of this post will be difficult to accept. You won’t want to believe it. I tried to debunk it. But it’s true: our cat does not drink water. …
Thankful Thursday – Health Care & Jim Carrey
Anytime you hear one of your American friends, or their President, spouting the lie that universal health care is a failure, play them this one-minute snippet of video, please. (Contains swearing!) …
In Labour
We’re expecting. It’s true! Any time now we will be a two sound-booth household. …
The Old Man and the Chair
Societal outrage has finally reached the tipping point for me. …
My Brother’s Reply
Your target-shooting brother here. Tell me this. If you were to be convinced to give up your beloved paint brushes, the ones you’ve used and coveted all your long, long (long) life, the ones you sorted through using trial and error to eventually collect your favourites at no small expense, the ones that gave you enjoyment and peace, interaction with like-minded people and camaraderie, the ones you used for decades with zero harm to anyone and then found out the arguments used to convince you were based on biased information that was totally wrong but once you found out it was too late and you could never own paint brushes again, would that be cool with you? It’s ok, I know the honest, unemotional answer. Of course it’s ‘no’. That’s the proposition legal gun owners are looking at right now.
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Thankful Thursday – The Outlaws
If life is teaching me anything, it’s to be grateful for who you have while you have them. My in-laws are a pretty wonderful bunch. Derek is the eldest of six and they’re all different but they’re also similar. Siblings are like that. I mean, I only have one, so what did I know? …
Signs of the Times
You can learn a lot about a place from its signs. Are they funny? Are they informative? Do they… god forbid… have an unnecessary apostrophe? …
Walkin’ (Too Much!) In Memphis
There’s no need to park in downtown Memphis and walk ten city blocks to your destination. We know that now! Looking back, I can’t remember why we did this on our second-last day in the city. It wasn’t the only time we paid for parking when a free spot was available at our destination. Tourists, eh? …
My Favourite Partridge – Feb 23, 2017
David Cassidy died last night with his family around him. The official cause was organ failure but that followed years of drug abuse and heavy drinking that he had finally tamed in recent years. Burned into my memory: David gazing at me lovingly from Tiger Beat magazine. Anticipation of each new episode of The Partridge Family. Ruining the cover of The Partridge Family Album – my first album – by writing Mrs. David Cassidy all over it. What follows is the post I wrote back in February when David announced he had dementia. …