After five or six weeks of 30s Celsius and ultimately fires, temps are down and here cometh the rains. It is however startling to get up at 5:30 AM and find darkness after all those months of light. As for thrift store news, we have a beautiful wood framed chair with firm cushions and…

Happy summer! In a week or two autumn peeks in like it does every August and then it returns to slumber for awhile. Temperatures are in the high 30s Celsius and have been for two or three weeks while the air conditioner has a great workout. Smoke from other parts of the country made it…

Here we are and after laser treatment I can also read a book and see what I write. All without the magnifying glass. And I discovered that a couple of items in the closet needed ironing after all. Sigh. It is nice however to be able to read the expiry dates and food ingredients on…

This issue is short as II temporarily do not see well enough to type, text, have to have floaters lasered off in a couple of days. Or as I refer to that, having the eyeballs not pealed but peeled. To create paradox yesterday I received two books, each from a different source. I can’t wait…

Here we are after a month of way too much chocolate and no snow on the ground. Winter forgot us but apparently summer scorch is not forecast in that manner. We shall see and in the meantime stock up on sunscreen and plan on sunrise stomps to keep the muscles working in the cool. If…

It’s that time of year again. You know, darker and colder which to me is anything below 0C. Our long sunrise stomps are in hibernation as walking happens during later daytime and only for short excursions. The only thing we don’t have to whine about is snow as that has yet to befall, pun intended.…