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Monday, September 11, 2023

September 11 - Yes indeed, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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 Not feeling so good today, so nothing happening at all.  I just went archiving again. And what I found was pretty weird. Because on this da...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

September 10 - We’ll sing in the sunshine - however, it was cloudy all day today.

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 Well, checking the Convenient Archives tonight, as it’s so bloody close to tomorrow and I have absolutely nothing to say about today. I cam...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

September 9 - Some sweet salty air on this sunny summer day. And no, this post is not brought to you by the letter S.

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 Seems like my birthday is extending into a weekend. This morning, after sleeping in until 8 o'clock and , having my toast and coffee, H...
Friday, September 8, 2023

September 8 - Yup, made it through another year, and still standing (most of the time.)

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  So here I am, another year around the sun, and as you can see (if you keep on reading,) my life hasn’t changed drastically sine 2011, exce...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

September 7 - I actually could take a bottom of my foot picture, just not one that was good enough to show the extent of my latest mishap.

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 I know it’s quite early, but I have decided to go to bed a lot earlier tonight, to prevent the proverbial Things Happen In Threes.  The fir...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

September 6 - Another picnic, all mixed up with Murphy’s Law.

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 Be careful what you wish for. Last evening, as the light was leaving, we were sitting on the back deck swing (as opposed to no other swing)...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

September 5 - School days - the best years of your life, especially when you’re the person behind the teacher’s desk.

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 I can’t believe how summer seems to have left already, and we’re into those glorious warm days and cool nights that we used to call somethi...
Monday, September 4, 2023

September 4 - Always get a bit maudlin this time of year - I think it’s because I’m used to new beginnings in September.

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 A piece I scribbled in the early 2000s - Autumn is a season which I truly miss being ‘back home,’ but after 29 years, BC is now my home. Th...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

September 3 - No frost on the pumpkin yet, but I do have a sweater on standby.

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 I think summer has officially packed her bags and has moved on, and that’s fine with me. To celebrate, I put an extra bedspread on our bed,...
Saturday, September 2, 2023

September 2 - Roll out the easy, breezy, freezy days of autumn - the days of baking, hot chocolate, and stew...

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 I wrote the following poem on one of my working days, when I had to leave really, really, really early in the morning for a one hour and tw...
Friday, September 1, 2023

September 1 - Summer’s on the way out, but it was still 32 in our backyard this afternoon, even though it was only 24 in the front. Go figure.

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 This isn’t what happened on this day many years ago, but about something we did on a hot summer day from long long ago, when I actually dro...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

August 31 - Two months gone bye bye, how times flies, and I really don’t think fun has anything to do with it.

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 Yes! Throw back Thursday, when I was using this blog as an incentive to lose weight by posting my scales’ number on the first of every mont...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

August 30 - This is almost the sentence that never ends - but it does, eventually.

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 Don’t you hate it when you’ve got your day pretty well planned (even if it is cleaning, tidying, laundry and maybe - just maybe, some bakin...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

August 29 - It’s not rainy day blues ... yet ... but I’m pretty certain these days will come. Keep checking in.

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 I guess I can’t complain about the heat today - overcast and beautifully rainy. Not steady all day rainy, so we got to get up and go a coup...
Monday, August 28, 2023

August 28 - Not stealing (borrowing) from a past blog post tonight - instead something much better, and even though it’s quite old, it’s really new.

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 As some of you may remember, when I lived ‘back home’ ( in Newfoundland), I sometimes would write a little ditty and sketch a little cartoo...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

August 27 - It’s good to know we’re still alive and kicking even though we’ve been keeping the ERs busy for over a decade!

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We’re  still living in a smoke-filled world, and my eyes are blinky and irritated, and my throat hurts, and I feel I’m breathing through a p...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

August 26 - Maybe this is one reason why Howard doesn’t want me to get another cat.

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 Really smoky day, due to the province still on fire. This was the first time I’ve needed my inhaler in months - probably because the predni...
Friday, August 25, 2023

August 25 - This, that, and everything - with a Tamar poem on top! (Or, I should say, at the bottom.)

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 How exciting! I was taking some recycling to the blue bin this morning, when I saw this green bug on the organic bin.  At first I thought G...