** update – the Freeman on the Land member has been taken into custody on a 2010 arrest warrant. Officers went into the duplex around 2 am and arrested him.  The ordeal appears to be over!  My original blog post appears below. …
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I can shut down the quickie-lube guys with one confidently told lie: Â …
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Tomorrow afternoon 15 local authors will gather with a book-centred TV show host at the London South Chapters to sign books, offer cupcakes and give attendees chances to win prizes. …
Tomorrow: Book Signing and Cupcake Fiesta at Chapters!Read More »
Tomorrow: Book Signing and Cupcake Fiesta at Chapters! Read More »
On Saturday we paid a visit to a farm where 35 years ago, my husband spent the summer picking and processing tobacco plants. It’s something he and my Mom have in common, although she worked for many long, hot summers on tobacco farms. Â Â …
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I’ve long described myself as claustrophobic but I seem to be getting better at handling it. …
A hundred years ago when I started in radio and snagged my first full-time job in Red Deer, Alberta, a wonderful, quirky, hilarious newscaster took me in as her roommate.  This weekend that woman and I are finishing up her visit from Winnipeg and I’m grateful that she’s still in my life and as hilarious as ever. …
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Boy oh boy, some people have too little to think about. Â …
A Million Vacations Read More »
We have mused and fantasized about owning an RV or trailer for as long as we’ve been together. Â …
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My cousin BA, Aunt Wanda and I scooted over to Strathmore from Calgary and picked up two more cousins, Mike and Wanda and Wanda’s boyfriend Dave, for our excursion to Drumheller. …
Royal Tyrrell and a Hoodoo Field Read More »
On my plane ride to Calgary my seatmate, a man who had retired at 27 and somehow escaped without me strangling him in a jealous rage, said “You HAVE to go to the Columbia Icefield!” Â Apparently it has receded tremendously in the decades since I last saw it. I vividly recall running toward the plain of ice and recoiling in horror as a stranger next to me suddenly began urinating on its edge. Â …
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Ah Calgary. It’s the Canadian city of exponential growth and recent, devastating flooding. It’s also the home of my closest cousin, my sister-from-another-mister, Barbara-Anne and her family. …
I had a mishap on the weekend that I attribute mostly to a lack of sleep. Â …
Bathtub 1, Lisa 0 Read More »
Mamasita.  Matka. Mamoo. Moo. Ma. Helen. Mrs. H. …
Happy Birthday Mom! Read More »
Everyone, meet Darby. Darby, everyone. Â Darby is Spice’s cousin! She’s the fur-baby of a brother and sister-in-law on hubby’s side. Â …
Saturday’s balloon ride required us to get up around 4:30 am so we could make it to the other end of the city for 5:30 am. Â This wasn’t too far from our regular weekday routine except that we couldn’t have much coffee because we didn’t want to go up with full bladders. Â By the time we made it back to our vehicle it was about 9:30 am. Â …
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Slowly we’re clearing away some forgotten stuff from the basement. There has been talk of shelf building and that sort of thing. Looking around under the stairs the other day I found a handful of magazines. Some are comics (worthless, I checked) and one is a Woman’s Day from March 11, 1980. Â …
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