2022-10-02 19:08
As I was sucking up the dog hair with my Dyson this morning, I realized that it didn’t have a light on it. When did they quit putting lights on vacuums? I remember “a lot&rdq… Read More
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2022-09-17 16:51
When I was buying camping groceries I ran across the chicken. Self-checkout challenges my grocery packing abilities so the chicken ended up being squished in between cans of baked beans… Read More
2022-08-25 16:31
Photo by Proud Paws Dog Grooming So Lena went to the “beauty parlour” for the first time this week. In all our many years and many dogs we have never used a groomer before, inste… Read More
2022-08-18 15:45
-coffee stains on the carpet – I know, you were going with dog pee but you’re wrong. Black coffee spilled will come back to haunt you again and again. My sage green carpet attest… Read More
2022-08-14 13:01
When parchment paper evolved from it’s previous iterations into the product we buy today in big fat twin roll packs at Costco, it became a kitchen staple. My kitchen staple. My… Read More
2022-08-13 22:15
I caught a glimpse of you staring back at me as I walked by the bevelled mirrors of the china cabinet today. I saw you in the window off the deck last week. I heard your voic… Read More
2022-07-02 22:41
LenaSo, what happened to your blog? Yeah, I was asked a few times and I guess my response was that I was thinking about it…. Sometimes life gets in the way – whatever &ndash… Read More
2021-01-22 15:59
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight”. – Khalil Gibran
Rest easy my gi… Read More
2020-08-06 00:23
Someone started the fish book the year the boat was built. Dad was six years old that year and I can imagine him hanging around Grandpa’s shop listening to the Uncles as they hammered… Read More
2020-04-11 17:44
“There they are! See, over on the far bank. You can see a few!”
“Hold on, I’ll pull over and we can get a better look”.
Our spring-time tradition of head… Read More
2020-04-08 17:22
I’ve wrestled with insomnia since I was very young. When I was 7 years old my Dad got me a child-sized wicker rocking chair and set it up outside my bedroom in the lighted hallw… Read More
2020-04-05 19:34
I’ve been away for awhile – life as usual – for awhile. But now…..now nothing is as usual.
I’m working from home and fortunate to be doing so while so… Read More
2019-09-02 22:05
The past couple days I drove 800 kilometres (that’s 500 miles for the unconverted) to make pie. From scratch. From picking the apples to perfecting the pie crust. A dozen… Read More
2019-08-24 18:40
I have a birthday this week. Birthdays remind us of aging of course, and with this comes some questions I have for my mother. Like, why didn’t you tell me?
As I sat across… Read More
2019-08-03 04:09
As I pulled into the dealership to have my car serviced last week I automatically reached out and turned the volume on my radio off. I suppose so the service guys wouldn’t … Read More
2019-07-22 02:16
Those things, you know…the things that you have to shake off. Do they bother me? Those things? Of course they do but there’s no one at the edge the lake with a big fluffy towel… Read More
2019-07-21 20:09
No, my Mom doesn’t read my blog. When I asked my Mom for her email address she said she didn’t want a bunch of jokes -and didn’t give it to me. When I asked my… Read More
2019-07-15 02:36
Those ads. The all-inclusive resort, azure blue waters, all the beautiful people. I can almost feel the soft tropical wind gently blowing the sarong slouched oh-so-sexy on m… Read More
2019-07-06 03:53
The phone call totally made my week. The guy calls and tells me he has a problem. He says it’s hard to explain.
He tells me he has a situation with the document he n… Read More
2019-07-04 02:37
Pedro saunters through my yard on his quarter-mile jaunt up to the neighbour’s house where he snuggles on the soft deck chairs and purrs. On the way he stops and poops among the… Read More
2019-07-01 18:55
The summer before I started first grade was marked by moving to a new house on Woodlawn Avenue that came with a barn and a field that adjoined the property of a new elementary school being… Read More
2019-06-30 17:35
An entry on a WTF social media site raged against the circumstance of an elderly gentleman being taken advantage of by a building contractor. Run of the mill for this site but in… Read More
2019-02-07 18:20
……an adventure in cosmetic tourism.
Well, it was only cosmetic tourism due to my accident. A freak accident….(aren’t ALL accidents freaks?) put me in ranks of tho… Read More
2018-10-01 01:01
At a surprise birthday event this week a large beautiful sheet cake was presented beside a stack of little plates, napkins and plastic forks. A feeble rendition of “Happy… Read More
2018-09-30 01:19
Fall came in and shoved all the summer pastels to the back of the closet bringing out the golds, the ambers, the deep rust colours. It’s as if Fall knows that gold tone eyeshadow… Read More
2018-09-12 04:03
Walking to work every day I pass by the bridal shop on the way to and from my office. I stop and check when the dresses in the window change and I wonder if they’ve gone off to… Read More
2018-09-09 22:55
Molly comes out to bark at us every day as we walk by her house. She roars off the porch with the determination of a much younger very much fiercer guard dog running along her fence l… Read More
2018-08-08 04:03
I’m stuck! Help me!!
The thing is, my little friend Buddy, you aren’t really stuck. You got up there; you tippy-toed through the water and climbed up on your perch, tail w… Read More
2018-08-07 01:57
Who’s to say where we find that one friend – in a new job orientation session, in an airplane, in a theatre sharing Ted X, in a dish drainer.
Pipy found her friend who doesn&rsq&helli…Read More
2018-07-22 02:30
Our walks give us a changing mural as plants step forward to flourish in their short moments in the summer sun. We always look forward to the daisies dancing in the sun… Read More
2018-07-14 20:48
As I moved the table to sweep behind it this morning, it fell apart. The legs separated like they were too weary to stand and the side piece fell out. I was upset and tried to p… Read More
2018-07-12 16:33
Every once in a while we run into an urgency in our lives that makes us stop the car and run out to deal with it. Somewhere between the first and second MRI was my moment to slow… Read More
2018-06-12 04:35
Where does it come from? Sheesh, every morning I get in the car to head to work, out the driveway, turn the corner and there it is! That 1 mosquito buzzing around the windshield. On t… Read More
2018-06-11 02:31
How low can they go? I think they’ve dug out the soft mucky floor of the swamp in the quest to see what new level of low they can achieve. To see just how far below the bar they… Read More
2018-06-09 23:53
The wild strawberries are ripe. Little splashes of red winking at us as Jasmine and I wandered on our walk today.
I used to pick wild strawberries and make jam. It took hours to… Read More
2018-05-17 01:11
This happened: It was a great day of co-presenting a couple sessions with a colleague.
This happened: My friend had a snake in her office!! No, not a pet; a wild terrifying snak… Read More
2018-05-13 02:03
We all have people special to us; closer in some ways than if by blood with the family last name. A couple of weeks ago I had a journey with my “daughter-ish” person who h… Read More
2018-03-26 00:12
I feel like I’ve spent the past five weeks looking out the passenger side window at the world. I’m not used to having to ask for help or what’s worse, needing help… Read More
2018-02-23 00:45
Rushing along on the way to work when it’s 27 below muttering “it’s damned cold, it’s damned cold” doesn’t make it any less slippery on the sidewalk.
2… Read More
2018-02-11 02:21
The snow has stopped and the plow and grader have been by plowing the end of our driveway in. We head out and climb over the smallish mountain of snow for our first walk in a week and… Read More
2018-02-05 00:58
I’m back this month, but I needed a break in January. Needed it bad.
Lots of people do because basically January sucks…..because……
the novelty of living in… Read More
2017-12-31 19:49
Taking my ratty 2017 calendar down and thumbing through the months is a time for reflection. The charity and minor hockey raffle tickets I purchased in support with draw dates long gone&nbs&helli…Read More
2017-12-30 02:35
As the year draws to a close I hear so much “gee, I should have done” and “oh, I only wish I could”. It feels like opportunities left in the dust and it’s… Read More
2017-12-24 22:10
The wonder of the season may have changed for me over the decades but it’s still there and as long as there is wonder there is magic to be found.
I wish all you all a wondrous Christm… Read More
2017-12-23 03:07
A lineup of traffic several kilometers long with more big trucks than I could count. Sitting, idling, waiting with lights glowing like a long string of Christmas lights. A shout out t… Read More
2017-12-18 00:23
I’m sitting here catching a glimpse every once in a while of the Christmas Cookie Challenge on the Food Network as my background company. Now those are some kind of cookies!! Bu… Read More
2017-12-09 21:46
Some years ago I spent a lot of money; more than I intended on a set of luggage. I saw it as an investment that would serve me well as I was travelling to far away places. As I retur… Read More
2017-12-07 03:14
It’s about TIME. Well done, TIME magazine for recognizing change makers and bringing them to the forefront. The change makers who chose not to be victims any longer and cast of… Read More
2017-12-03 03:22
I got busted for smelling good in our scent-free workplace. Quite mortifying to be told you smell…….good. Not allowed anymore.
It’s a shame. With the holiday seaso… Read More
2017-11-30 02:04
Piper Bird@realBadbird
OMG OMG Mom left the lid off the peanut butter jar and turned her back. Score!
Bird Mom@realBadbird’smom
Piper get out of there! No birds allowed in the peanut… Read More
2017-11-29 13:30
Those of you who don’t live where there are seasons; I mean REAL seasons don’t experience the dramatic here-today-gone-tomorrow of the warm summer on the deck and the empty snow… Read More
2017-11-27 15:05
The spiteful mean man with his fingers tweeting out vicious vindictive comments to make himself feel bigger and better.
The rush to vilify those of “the other side” regardless o… Read More
2017-11-27 03:46
I love my cable news. Not the news station with the animal name; nope, the other one. Cable news when it’s not breaking and covering tragedies is a bit like a soap opera complet… Read More
2017-11-27 02:15
I basically took a sabbatical from writing for a while as I became immersed in my new job and the day-to-day one-foot-in-front-of-the-otherness of the melancholy that falling into the fall… Read More
2017-11-06 02:53
A day of unimaginable heartbreak and sorrow.
A sanctuary that couldn’t protect.
A time to hold tight to each other and give strength to get through the loss; the hurt; the next steps… Read More
2017-11-06 00:27
One of the bathroom lights burned out this weekend and as I climbed up on a chair reaching up to twist it out of the socket I was horrified to notice that the tulip shaped glass was co… Read More
2017-10-29 20:53
My early Saturday morning included a quick trip through the car wash. Well, it wasn’t that quick as I kept getting the message “card not read, try another one” as I… Read More
2017-10-23 14:22
Jasmine freaks when I point the phone at us and take a selfie. I’m not sure why, but she gets all squiggly and weird about it.
Selfies are fun. I get it. What I don… Read More
2017-10-23 01:50
Slow lazy shadows follow us around these days on our walks Read More
2017-10-23 00:31
Stuff in the news south of our border this week just makes me all snarky. All edgy waiting for it to be fixed. What the heck is wrong with people? When the proverbial foo… Read More
2017-10-14 01:38
Did you ever think you’d hear so much about the base? Cambridge Oxford says the base is “the bottom part of an object, on which it rests, or the lowest part of something”… Read More
2017-10-10 12:16
Yeah, I know you think I’m all glamorous and all. That my makeup is always impeccable. That my outfits are always trendy and Pinterest worthy.
Reality hits kinda hard some… Read More
2017-10-08 22:24
This weekend is Thanksgiving for us here in Canada. It sort of sneaks up on us with still warm days leaning into fall. We hang onto our (not politically correct anymore) Indian… Read More
2017-09-27 04:02
Sometimes ya just gotta dial it back and smile. Some things that made me smile this week were brought to me through social media channels, and I share:
What?
I read this on my neighb… Read More
2017-09-21 01:28
The route I and many others take everyday to and from our downtown offices is driving me crazy! There are SO many manhole (people hole?) covers set in the pavement that I can only speculate… Read More
2017-09-18 13:44
There are things that stay with us. Words that matter and have meaning far beyond the moment they are spoken.
I was always a little intimidated by her quick wit; the ability and forthrightn… Read More
2017-09-18 00:34
A friend of mine went for “the interview” last week and in recounting it to me he commented that the room was so small he felt like he was sitting under an interrogation room li… Read More
2017-09-07 03:46
I’ve always been in awe of hollyhocks. When we grew up in the house on Woodlawn Avenue in Oregon the towering plants reached up to the dining room windows and were sen… Read More
2017-09-05 02:52
Social media is such an intricate part of our lives that it’s hard to remember what we did with all the time we now spend checking status updates and posting whatever the fl… Read More
2017-09-05 02:33
Warm afternoon sun……..glass of wine…….catching words Read More
2017-09-05 02:14
How are we to measure “the complete” woman-ness of ourselves? I ask because over the years the ideals and metrics by which we measure ourselves have risen and in some stan… Read More
2017-08-29 15:00
Searching out a new laundry basket, I was in close proximity to the toilet seat aisle. Like all those housey-type things are bunched together for convenience in our shopping. It can&r&helli…Read More
2017-08-28 03:02
The thing about birthdays is that they happen. If we’re lucky, we continue to mark the day of our birth over and over and over again. I relished the stages of celebrating my birt… Read More
2017-08-18 09:00
I saw some super cute trendy watches in a store last week. They weren’t expensive and could be changed to match the outfit of the day like earrings are selected each morning.&nb&helli…Read More
2017-08-16 08:20
I know. It doesn’t look like much but I’ve been after it for several years now. I’m not sure what exactly was in the dog barf I discovered in the corner, discr… Read More
2017-08-13 21:01
Every time we move to a new house I think to myself, “I should plant some trees; some apple or flowering plum or some such thing”. And then I don’t. My rationa… Read More
2017-08-03 07:00
Sometimes I need to say “this I can change, and this I can’t.”
Photo courtesy of Thierry Maillot Read More
2017-08-02 13:00
I just don’t get it. I love my favourite stores where I can find everything from my Trina Turk dresses (which this one is not!) to my favourite shoes that I love and ever… Read More
2017-07-30 20:51
I’ve always just called it the cedar chest but I think it was meant to be a hope chest. The place where a woman gathers her linens and household items in preparation for marriage. La… Read More
2017-07-22 23:14
“In the middle of moving” is how the email note started that was from my friend this week. I’m not sure where the move is to but I am sure that he’ll look… Read More
2017-07-15 13:15
Growling at the TV I said “I hate freakin’ beer commercials”. Qualifying that, I should have said “I hate most freakin’ beer commercials” because o… Read More
2017-07-09 16:58
As a junior high school kid in Oregon in the 60’s…yes, I wore saddle shoes. We were cool in saddle shoes and knee socks and plaid kilts.
But it didn’t start… Read More
2017-06-26 21:46
I know, I know….those of you who live in climates with year round flowers and trees won’t quite get this, but here we revel in the exuberant bursting of scent in our short seas… Read More
2017-06-25 21:26
Much like Jasmine crashed in her nest, Friday night found me nodding off pretty early as I curled up on the couch. A new job will do that to ya.
Kinda like being picked up drop… Read More
2017-06-16 17:33
Well, it’s interesting that Sigmund Freud harkens the psychology of collecting with ties back to toilet training. And in his way, he says that the loss of control and what went… Read More
2017-06-13 14:15
My friend is an avid hunter. Something I’m not. I don’t deal well with dead animals or the killing of them which makes me a supermarket hunter.
I’ve had talks… Read More
2017-06-13 02:00
I believe the friendships we are gifted with kind of show up when we need them most for our souls. This sounds all lofty, but think about it…… think about the friendship… Read More
2017-06-11 19:18
Well, maybe I’m not vintage cool, but my sewing machine certainly is! As I took it out to hem the chopped off sleeves of a shirt, I was thinking about the forty years I’ve had t… Read More
2017-06-04 14:30
I don’t know what people expect you to be doing when you’re not punching the timecard in the 9-5 world. When you’re in between contracts, or stepping slowly int… Read More
2017-06-04 01:51
He said “I found another Agate for you” as he pulled a little rock out of the pocket of his dog-walking jacket and put it on the kitchen counter.
He’s brought m… Read More
2017-05-30 23:27
It’s not really a gate, but that’s what we call it. “Get the gate and close off the living room. Get the gate and close off the deck.” Keeping toddl… Read More
2017-05-20 16:40
“Gramma, com’ere!!!! You gotta see this! It’s a two-headed guitar!”
In 1884 FF Wichard built a special guitar in his shop in Benton, St… Read More
2017-05-20 01:44
The ever-changing rhetoric from day-to-day, hour-to-hour has our heads spinning wondering what is going on in the mind of Mr. Trump. And before you say anything; yes it does affect us tucke… Read More
2017-05-19 04:41
Well, now I know that 10 x 10 doesn’t necessarily mean 10 x 10. Looking to replace the fabric canopy top of my deck gazebo after several seasons, I find the actual replacement f… Read More
2017-05-13 18:44
As we hit our teenage years, our Mom is around sometimes like an unwanted appendage weighing us down and sometimes like a crutch holding us up. We’ve all been there; “ohhh… Read More
2017-05-11 23:13
My friend was driving back to town and found some awesome bears a couple of hours from here. Spring is time for bears to wake up and smell the roses. And eat whatever they can f… Read More
2017-05-09 20:14
This time of year picking up toilet paper and milk at the store pretty much assures a trunk full of plants too. We are manic with our spring-time planting and rightly so.
Already we ar… Read More
2017-05-07 20:59
9 people in a room for six days. Like really, really in a room. Not leaving. And days are 12-14 hours long. That’s what it means to work for our election as an officer fac… Read More
2017-05-06 04:25
I played at Peggy’s house most of the time, or any other neighbour’s house for that matter. I’m trying hard to think of my friends playing at my house and I can&rsq&hellip…Read More
2017-05-05 18:27
The delight in finding. The delight in setting free. It was all there in BookCrossing. With ebooks and the convenience of reading everything on a screen I pack around, I&r&helli…Read More
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