I just went outside with Monty and I finally just saw my first robin this spring! Our crocuses are up too and should open up today! Now I’m sitting in…
Read MoreHad a chat with this guy this morning
Here’s our new bunny friend. He seems smaller than our winter bunnies and is mostly brown now. Monty likes to get really muddy chasing him away from the outside of…
Read MoreMonster Chickadee
Look what the webcam in my office window captured yesterday. Is it one of those rare, seldom seen, monster chickadees? Or did the poor guy fly into the window? Or…
Read MoreJeff at work
Someone captured Jeff at work yesterday and put it on YouTube. Watch Jeff and the RCMP remove a seal from a playground yesterday:
Read MoreIce Jam!!
Today on our adventure we went to check out the road that we heard was washed out a couple weeks ago because of an ice jam. We took the road…
Read MoreDaylight Saving Time
I hate daylight saving time. It has to go. My body and brain like to be connected to the sun. Shifting it an hour is cruel and inhumane. Please, in…
Read MoreI caved. It’s back on… And please don’t call it a purse.
Just fessin’ up here. I just caved and put my watch on. Ahhhh my wrist no longer feels naked. And while I had my bag open, I noticed I now…
Read MoreApparently, this is me in the morning
Jeff said he has to buy some Rice Krispies for me.
Read MoreWe need to build a greenhouse
What is the price of lettuce in your grocery store? Today we had iceburg lettuce for $3.49, and romaine lettuce for $3.99. And neither of it looked fit to eat…
Read MoreThis is so neat…
I’ll never know for sure what Surf was suffering from when she died in 2005, but all of her symptoms were characteristic of a fungal disease called Blastomycosis. There was…
Read MoreMonty has found something way more interesting than squirrels to watch from the window
There are two bunnies that spend a lot of time nibbling on the twigs behind our house. Monty stares at them from the window, and whines, and gets excited. He…
Read MoreDrunk on sunshine
I’m drunk on sunshine today. I LOVE days like this. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, the air is still cool. (And there are no mosquitoes or blackflies)….
Read MoreDo you have any idea how exciting it is to live here?
We get weather warnings more than once a week! Hurricanes, tropical storms, wind warnings, snow warning, heavy rain fall warnings, AHHH! I love it. Why do I get so excited…
Read MoreMy latest experiment: Giving up time
For most of my life I have been glued to my watch. I wear a watch on my left wrist, day and night, taking it off only to shower, and…
Read MoreUpdate on our Ice Dam
We’ve gone about a week now without any water dripping into our house (Whew!) But we have had rain and snow this week so any progress we made on eliminating…
Read MorePictures of our ice dam
I really wish I could have gone back further to get a better photo of our roof ice, but the snow is simply too deep to walk back there. If…
Read MoreHave our merchants lost their minds?
It’s mid February. We have 3 feet of snow. Everyone is having ice and snow on the roof problems. School was cancelled yesterday in our 4 neighbouring counties. It’s winter….
Read MoreIce Dam!
Notice big icicles on the back of the house, especially over my bathroom window Wish it would stop pouring rain after snow, and over and over. Watch icicles form for…
Read MoreThe tunnel constructor
Jeff noticed a week or so ago that we seemed to have tunnels exiting the snow banks onto to our driveway, on both sides. And they were surrounded by many…
Read MoreMore snow!
More snow today! Jeff had to close his offices at 11am, and after hearing his awful road report, I left for home at lunch. The road was awful. It was…
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