It's time to let you know, I've been blogging at Open Salon for awhile ( Read more... )

Time to post. Maybe I'll pretend this is twitter ( Read more... )

Say, I may not have mentioned here that I am posting stuff on Youtube these days. And since I got a (very cheap but) real camcorder at Xmas, instead of using my cellphone, they are almost watchable and have actual soundtracks. Like my latest two-part epic on maple-syruping--it's like Lord of the Rings, except in only 2 episodes which is what the ( Read more... )

She was a year younger than my daughter, a couple of years older than my son ( Read more... )

It is obviously spring, I have to keep this short because I have sap boiling up thar. Made about 1.5 gallons of syrup so far and just starting another batch ( Read more... )

OK, in case you were wondering, I am officially tired of winter now. It is a good thing February has fewer days than other months, because it is definitely the longest month anyway. Weekly skiing keeps me sane, but I am ready for it to warm up, like soon please ( Read more... )

Now I didn't want to be doing this, but a certain acquaintance (lets call her Ms L) recently stated, based on limited experience, that New Brunswick "is very boring." That is so not true that I had to drop everything and dig up and edit and post some photos. (This saved me from doing some actual work I was feeling obliged to undertake.) Of ( Read more... )

Last night The Skirmish played our first gig in over six months.  It was a Burns Supper night at good ol' O'Reilly's.  It was the first:

• Burns Supper I ever attended, or played at
• Rugby Club event I ever played
• time I ever wore a kilt in public.
• haggis I ever consumed!

And I call myself a Scottish-Canadian folksinger!  Geez.  OK, first, about the kilt ( Read more... )

I never, ever do these, but it's frickin cold out and this is warmer than going to the dump (Pardon me, waste transfer site and recycling centre), which I am going to do anyway. Nicked from Hillevi, and I am going to recycle some of her answers too! (In bold just to keep the record straight.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
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Vern is doing much better, still in the hospital though. He is waiting for transfer to an extended-care facility. Hopefully one near Mom's senior's residence, since the downside is that he won't be eligible to return to that independent-living status. But he's back to being that get-me-out-of-here curmudgeon we know and love. The staff ( Read more... )