February 25, 2010 – 8:49 pm
Now that my life is getting more settled again, it’s time to get back to blogging. Since I last wrote, we moved out of the house and have finally hit the road in our new home. Frank and I have a travelblog set up at artfulvagabonds where we’ll put most of the travel stuff. I’ll [...]
October 27, 2009 – 5:18 am
Yesterday was the first day that the H1N1 shots were available in our area (and only for particular people, including those with chronic illnesses and the people who love them, which is how I qualified). The clinic opened at 2:30pm, so Frank, I, and Karen-who-has-no-blog (yet) figured that if we showed up a little [...]
October 26, 2009 – 10:47 am
We’ve long been planning to sell our house, buy a fifth-wheel and travel around the States and Canada, painting and photographing to our hearts’ content. We finally took matters in hand and listed the house on Oct. 16th, and on Oct. 17th we had the house sold. Whew. Still makes my head spin!
Our last day [...]
October 14, 2009 – 6:02 am
Last weekend my friend Elisabeth had to deliver two llamas to a farm in Quebec’s Eastern Townships (about a four and a half hour drive from her place), so, hoping to get some photos of spectacular fall colours, I went with her. The colours weren’t at their peak yet, but the rolling hills and fields [...]
January 26, 2009 – 8:40 am
Some time ago, a friend who knows I knit gave me her late mother’s knitting needles. The needles were in a box along with a few other, presumably craft-related items. There is an old wooden-handled pattern tracing wheel, a French Ivory-handled button hook, some bodkins and sail-maker’s and glover’s needles — those things I could [...]
January 2, 2009 – 1:47 pm
Every now and then, Frank (my husband) likes to set me a cooking challenge. Since I love to cook, I enjoy this a lot. Sort of Iron Chef Ottawa, without any competition. Frank buys what he figures are weird and wonderful ingredients, and I make a meal out of them. The rules are that I [...]
