I’m just rejoining the land of the living after checking out for awhile due to a nasty cold. I’ve never missed 3 days of work before due to a cold!…
Read MoreHello highspeed wireless Internet!!
The Seaside Communications installers were just here to install our wireless internet. Buh bye Xplornet Satellite Internet! Now we’ll have faster high speed for half the cost ($54 instead of…
Read MoreMy indoor garden
Jeff gave me an indoor light garden for my birthday! I love growing plants. We tried out a vegetable garden this past summer, but the vegetables weren’t ready for harvest…
Read MoreHoarders
I’m fascinated by the show ‘Hoarders’. If you haven’t seen this show, it is an hour long look into the miserable life of a hoarder. It seems there are 3…
Read MoreChristmas Eve 2009
Here are some photos from our Christmas Eve here in Nova Scotia. Monty had to have a Christmas Eve bath. Jeff took him for an adventure in the woods and…
Read MoreIt’s a new year… time for a new look
I’ve updated the “skin” again to give the blog a new look. I’ve taken off two items that made the page load really slow – the radar and my book…
Read MoreCheck out this forecast!!
Tonight Cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries early this evening. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h overnight. Temperature steady near minus 4. Saturday Cloudy. Snow at times heavy beginning late in…
Read MoreChristmas Holidays are here!
Yesterday was my last day of work until January 4th! WOO HOOO What has been going on? -upgraded to Windows 7 today on my desktop computer at home. It went…
Read MoreCough cough… That was scary..
We had a chimney fire scare last night. It was a cold night, -14’ish with a much colder windchill, so I filled the firebox with wood, turned it down, watched…
Read MoreBest way to start a Monday
Want to know the best way to start a Monday? Find an unopened jar of Trudy’s bumbleberry jam in the back of the fridge 🙂
Read MoreThe Plow
The plow wasn’t here in time for the first snow fall, that fell after the ice formed, so our driveway wasn’t so good for a couple days. But it arrived…
Read MoreWho is this?
My security camera just took this photo and sent it to me. Is this the mailman? Did he really walk up our mountain to deliver the mail? I told you…
Read MoreToday’s Life Lesson
Lesson 1. When wandering outside in your slippers to throw ashes across the snowy, icy driveway, first check the direction of the prevailing wind. Lesson 2. When you throw a…
Read MoreAnd here is my new helmet!
Safety first! And femininity a close second! Here is my new ATV helmet… with pink goggles!!
Read MoreSaturday, those pretty yellow birds, shopping, snow storm
It’s Saturday morning and a big flock of those pretty yellow and black big birds just flew it – evening grosbeaks I think they were called. Jeff counted 20 of…
Read MoreFall, fires, and early to bed
Now that we’re well into fall, and the clock has fallen back, I’m morphed into winter Lisa. I get up at 5:30am now. Reach for my jogging pants, sweatshirt shirt,…
Read MoreJeff’s sacred hunting grounds
Last year for Jeff’s birthday, I bought him a trail cam. It is a camo digital camera with a picture card and a battery that you strap to a tree….
Read MoreSally
There once was a kitten named Sally Who was housebound on the side of a valley When flies start to buzz She eats them.. just because But refused to add…
Read MoreJeff’s Quote of the Day
Jeff to Lisa, just moments ago “Sometimes your lunacy is funny.. sometimes it’s just frustrating.”
Read MoreBlueberry tea,Rosie,and is Jeff sick?
I’m sitting at my desk at HOME this Wednesday afternoon. Why? Because Remembrance Day is a statutory holiday in Nova Scotia, and that suits me just fine. I have a…
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