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From Ashes to Swans

Two white swans in water.

The March break went quickly. Most of Jeff’s time was spent around home doing odd jobs, hanging a few hooks, re-attaching the gas tank to our twenty year old truck, and marking papers (I took a day off here and there). This weekend we drove to Presqu’ile Provincial Park to spread my mothers ashes....
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New Year Traditions

New Year Traditions

When the in-laws come to visit over the holidays we usually ring in the New Year together. We start with an early supper out, followed by a drive through to the neighbouring town which has a light display set up behind the main drag of their downtown area. Every year we go and every...
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Breathing In and Out

Sleep has never really been a hard thing for me. I can sleep in a chair, a moving vehicle (I am not fun on long trips because I cannot stay awake), and I can sleep in bed. I have always been the type of sleeper people dream about, within two minutes of my head...
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The Hawk and the Squirrel

The Hawk and the Squirrel

Usually when I get up the first I do, once I have said “hello” to all the critters, is let the dog out into the backyard. Yesterday I opened the backdoor and there was this large bird about twenty feet away from the stairs. It took a few seconds for it to register that...
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Fall is Here

Fall is Here

It is official, fall is here and the leaves have begun falling off my favorite tree.
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10 Good Things

A few months ago I told you about some of sleep writing. Well sometimes when I am actually wide awake I will write down things and I will not date them or include why it was necessary for me to write it down. When I find them months, sometimes years later one of the...
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Ants Versus Man

Ants Versus Man

In July we noticed a few petite ants in the front entrance making their way in and across the floor to a curled up piece of linoleum. We tried to ignore it for a few days killing off the ones we saw but otherwise hoping the problem would disappear. One afternoon we were both...
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Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

I finally bit the bullet and had the fuzz on my upper and lower lip waxed off. My friend Lana had hers done recently and it looked pretty good so I got the name and number of her esthetician. I know its sad, but every time I look in the mirror my eyes are...
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