Happy New Year everyone! I arrived home a couple days ago to a very quiet house. Too quiet, especially after the last few days! But it was also a really good time for me to do some reflecting and make some decisions about what…
This is Ruby the red bone coon hound. Our littles named her. She’s not exactly my dog, or Chloe’s or Kerstin’s (whose inspiration is the reason for Ruby), she is a collective family dog. She’s a puppy. A bit wild, a bit uncontrollable, a…
You know, it’s pretty rare for me to get here at the turning point of the seasons, but this year I managed just that. Four weeks ago, the trees were bare and the ground covered with frost, and today suddenly it’s practically summer! One…
Today is such a liminal day, isn’t it? On the threshold of the turning of the daylight, I can almost feel the coming spring. In amongst the bare trees are huge balls of bright green mistletoe reminding us that even in the bleak mid-winter,…
Hi again, I’ve just been looking thru my photos of the past week and, oh my word, we’ve done a lot. Also, because we’ve been so busy, I haven’t been keeping up with my posts, so now that we’re into October, I thought it…
Hi everyone, What a difference a day made. And then a week! This is the sun the day after my last post and smoke rolled into Vancouver from the interior, Washington and Oregon wildfires. Yikes! This was the state of the world at 10…
Hi everyone, This post is my regular (ahem) semi regular hello from Sunday night post except it’s the 2.0 version…the one where I wrote a post last Sunday but felt like I had nothing to say, (and the photos were pretty lame), and so…
Hello my dear friends, I’m about to take you on the emotional ride which was my day. Now you’ve been with me all along chasing my citizenship papers all over the Czech republic and we’ve been trying to take calm breaths together while I’ve…
Hello my dears, Well, I almost did it. I almost completed all the Prague office work which I had to do. My office work consisted of visiting four government offices for some document registration for my Czech…and therefore EU citizenship. And one of these…
Well, my dears, as I write this I’m back in Prague for a few days. There are things to do in town, like visit and take care of the family crypt, sort out some documents re my Czech citizenship and hang in town for…