Hi everybody, The new lunar year has begun. The year of the pig; which, incidently, is my year! Here in Vancouver, it arrived with a spring like feeling… …but don’t be fooled, February is an unpredictable month here. I went to the local asian…
Oh my gosh! You know how I watch for the first winter blooms. I’m not a fan of winters and so look for signs of spring the day after Christmas. So it’s no wonder that I’m anxious for the snowdrops to start blooming. I…
Hello everyone, It’s been quite the busy week round here. We’ve (when I say we, I mean Robert), have chopped down an apple tree. It was a hard decision to chop it down, mainly because it was such a hardy and healthy tree, but…
Hi everyone! Well, what a surprise weekend. We have a new family member. Please meet Asher Neal Roth, my brand new grandson, baby Mega. As his wonderful mother Chantal says, Megababy decided he wanted to be a Pisces and not an Aries like he…
Hello from over here on Sunday night everyone. We’ve had an amazing, fun, but tiring weekend. One wonderful bit of news is that Kerstie brought our little girls for a visit. Luckily the rain stayed away and we did a little gardening and a…
Happy Valentine’s Day guys. 😀 I hope you have the best day. I’ve had several of you ask about my super healthy granola recipe and so here it is, mixed up with three of my most favourite love poems, because, Valentines! Poem 1 is…
About an hour away from home, almost at the US border, is a little farm preserved since the 1800s. It’s now run as a little museum/photo/wedding/school trip/other venue. We were driving out in that direction for a car show and I remembered taking a…
It’s time. It’s time to open the cabin for the year. All winter the cabin sits in a frozen valley 200km from the door of my city house. It’s still chilly up there, but the promise of spring is in the air. I took…
That would be me! And it’s not even Christmas any more. 😀 The other day I spied the first snowdrop in my garden. So I ran out, picked it, and put it on my bedside table inside the little ink bottle where I’ve forced…
Oh what full days we’re having! 😀 Robert and I even managed to fit in a day in Seattle. We went to visit a friend, to pick up some specialty car parts R had sent to our friend, and to visit the Museum of…