After basking under Sask Skies for the last several weeks (and breaking all sorts of temperature and humidity records  we are taking a bit of a break today.  The temperature has dropped 10 degrees Celsius (about 20 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last few hours and it’s overcast like it hasn’t been for a month.  The [...]

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Magic

My mother always said that she never needed to hit me over the head more than two or three times before I caught on to things (don’t call the authorities; she was speaking metaphorically), so when I had half of today’s post written and then **poof** ! it vanished, I took that as a sign [...]

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Back in the Saddle (the Home-From-Holidays Laundry Blues)

I’m back!  We had a lovely trip out to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia; the weather was a tad warm (39 degrees Celsius which converts to damned hot Fahrenheit.) but it beat cold and rainy.  Mike’s folks’ anniversary garden party was a success; lots of friends from B.C. and some from Saskatchewan (from where [...]

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Post-Canada Day Alphabet Entry. Sorry it’s late.

I just heard from Ruth that comments were turned off on yesterday’s post.  I have fixed that (I have no idea how that happened) but it might have something to do with the fact that I cannot access email or internet from my laptop right now.  (It can’t possibly be anything I did…)
After 5 attempts [...]

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Buttonhole madness

I seem to have had a busy week.  We had our anniversary (24!) on Monday,
 
so I put on the wedding dress and did up the zipper as far as it would go (got it to my waist; the zipper theoretically can do right up to the back of my neck.  I was freakishly thin when [...]

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