Last Year Must Have Been A Fluke

Ever since I was a kid I have LOVED Hallowe’en.  I mean what’s not to love?  Dressing up in costumes, candy, hanging out with your friends, candy, staying out after dark, candy, Hallowe’en parties and oh yeah, CANDY.
But last year about this time I wrote a post called Hallowe’en Spirit wherein I described my total [...]

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When The Midol Wears Off

What do you mean what’s wrong with me?
I’m a little irritated, am I not allowed to be?
I do everything around here, so little I ask
Is it too much to think you could do this one task
I’m not freaking out, I think I’m quite fine
It’s just that nobody gets how hard it is, this life of [...]

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I Love Fall

Especially when it’s not raining.
Taking advantage of the absolutely gorgeous fall Sunday, we went for a walk on our favourite trail.

The contrast is stunning…not a bad pic if I do say so myself.
But more than just the awesome scenery, the interactive wildlife experience is what it’s all about.

The chickadees will land right in your hand [...]

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Had A Little Birdie

“I had a little birdie
Her name was Enza
I opened up the window
And IN FLU ENZA”
That was a rhyme that children sang during (and likely for a long time after) the great flu pandemic of the early 20th Century.  Neat eh?
Well, okay it’s not neat that so many people died from the flu in 1918, but [...]

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ThanksGiving

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and I am relaxing today after spending the last two days in the kitchen preparing, cooking, tasting and shooing hungry, just-want-to-know-what-smells-so-good teens out of my way.
To her credit though, Daughter (14) did help with the apple crisps and she finally learned how to make the yummy crumbly topping…a secret [...]

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Embracing My Domesticity

Not since I got my new vacuum almost two years ago have I been so excited.  A trip to Paris?  A winning lottery ticket?  Free house cleaning for a year?
Nope, nope and nope…but it’s still exciting.  Well, at least to me it is.

A new, smaller and more efficient, FRIDGE!
I know, my housewife is showing.  [...]

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In The Off Chance

I’ve been pining for over a year to repaint the front of the house…well, at least parts of it.
Where once we didn’t have the time, then we didn’t have the money and now the weather is not cooperating…okay, it’s not exactly the weather but the forecasts that are out of touch.
The rain they predicted for [...]

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