The book arrived in the mail Tuesday with a note saying "Your copy of Harry Potter was proudly delivered by the wizards at Canada Post ( Read more... )

It is good to be back home and catching up on what everyone has been doing in the last two weeks. I haven't any photos yet from the trip but there's a "brief" description below, although two of the four people who are my lj friends have already read it! I should try making some new contacts I guess! Anyway - for the sake of keeping a more or less ( Read more... )

We leave in a few days for two weeks down the Dumoine River of Quebec. Over the winter I wrote a 6-page piece about the "how" of canoe camping, but I'll spare you that. Here are the final two paragraphs of that piece, and they deal with the "why ( Read more... )

Regarding my most recent endeavor - a 9-day canoe-camping trip through Nova Scotia wilderness with my husband. Nineteen portages, 2 kilometers hauling the canoe upstream, one accident in the rapids where our canoe got mashed and then promptly sprang back into shape after we emptied it (now we call her "Springback")- all the fun and games led me to ( Read more... )