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Feeding a Need Have you ever heard the saying, don't be good at something you don't want to do? I heard it many years after I developed the liniment I make, and afte...	166	8	1	Mar 27	Apr 3	May 22
Rising from the Rubble of Misfortune As I've mentioned before, I post my photos to a local community site. I've garnered a significant following on there, due to the local photos I take o...	148	9	0	Mar 6	Mar 7	May 17
Revenge Served Cold Over the past couple of years, I've immersed myself in my photography, loving every second of it, and being challenged to do more and create more in t...	281	15	1	Mar 1	Mar 6	17 hrs ago
Work? Who Has Time? The predicted polar vortex hit us last night, with high winds and freezing temperatures that continue into today. Braving the winds this morning in my...	214	19	0	Feb 3	Feb 6	May 17
Polar Vortex aka Freezing One's A$$ Off The promised polar vortex and icy winds have definitely arrived, battering the house in gusts strong enough to make me worry about my windows holding....	168	13	1	Feb 4	Feb 5	May 19
You Can't Fix Stupid Don't you ever wonder if people have any sense at all, never mind common sense? The other day, approximately 9pm the train's whistle blew for a long,...	484	23	0	May 2018	Jan 13	May 22
The Travelling Sofa While out riding my bike the other day, I think I mentioned the sofa that someone had dumped in the middle of the gravel road. When I saw it, I laughe...	176	6	1	Jan 11	Jan 12	May 20
"9!!!" Christmas decorations always came down on Jan 6th - twelfth night and my ex's birthday. Last Sunday I had mentally prepared for the packing away of al...	206	13	0	Jan 9	Jan 11	May 21

Trainmen I remember standing by the train tracks as a little girl, counting the box cars as they chugged by, waiting to cross to the park and beach on the othe...	177	20	0	Jan 5	Jan 6	20 hrs ago
Your Beliefs Don't Make You A Better Person.... The other day, one of my friends posted the following on their wall: "Your beliefs don't make you a better person - your behavior does." For me, t...	1,188	77	2	Jun 2018	Jan 6	41 mins ago
Wet The start of the New Year and I've had to hit the ground running, with orders for photos. I'm always pleasantly surprised when people ask for copies o...	305	24	1	Jan 3	Jan 5	May 22
US Government Needs to Step Into THIS Century The end of the year and, as usual, the stupid US border patrol has deemed that everyone has to file an electronic manifest. Okay, that's not a problem...	193	6	1	Dec 28	Dec 28	May 22
Canadian GoFundMe Raises $6B In Two Hours To Pay For Privacy Hedge Along Entire US Border	136	0	1	Dec 27	Dec 27	May 20
Finding Purpose As usual, the fall has been crazy busy with work and no time for much of anything but either preparing for it, or working. It's a fun but exhausting t...	223	6	0	Dec 16	Dec 27	May 20
Big FAT Liar I see twitter and other social media sites were all aflutter with the White House Occupant's latest racist, LYING ad. It's unbelievable to me how gull...	729	41	1	Nov 1	Nov 11	May 21
Importing Stray Pets from Other Countries The other day I was reading how someone was bringing a stray home from the country they were visiting. What? We don't have enough unwanted pets here i...	215	14	0	Oct 31	Nov 3	May 20
Dealing With Stress Although I'd promised myself to do more walking, this morning found me out on my bike again. As it wasn't raining or windy, I chose to hop on my bike...	149	2	0	Nov 3	Nov 3	May 21
A Long Haul As rain becomes our weather forecast du jour, I've traded in my bike for my hiking boots. Not that I'm hiking, per se, just out walking, but they're c...	154	7	0	Nov 1	Nov 2	5 hrs ago
Is It Soup Yet? Do you remember the commercial Lipton's put out in the 1970's for their 'instant' soup? I believe it was a little kid that asked the 'Mom' - is it sou...	236	8	0	Oct 30	Oct 31	May 22
Puppies on Cliff - Rescued! On Saturday evening, a member of a local hiking group fb page posted a desperate plea for help in getting two dogs off a cliff ledge. According to the...	248	19	0	Oct 29	Oct 31	7 hrs ago
Surprising Enterprise Now that the rains have returned in earnest, it's time for me to do all those inside chores and other things I've been putting off. Two weeks of nothi...	234	12	0	Oct 28	Oct 29	4 hrs ago

Kitten Rescue After coming home yesterday morning, opting not to sit in the pouring rain at the market, I edited some photos and puttered around the house as the ra...	264	15	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 19
Getting Used to Retirement Well, that was a waste of time and gas this morning. I was up at 5:15am, made my lunch, heated up some soup, filled my thermos, made breakfast and had...	265	11	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	12 hrs ago
Exhilaration! Have you ever done something and felt totally exhilarated afterwards? This morning was one of those mornings for me. This week has been overcast and y...	243	8	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 16
The Games People Play My business requires me to cross the border twice a week to mail orders out in the U.S. I do this as the product doesn't get hung up in customs and it...	270	15	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 21
Drama Ploys Most of the time, when reading posts, I can gauge whether or not a person is just venting and wants some attention, or wants a solution to their probl...	428	24	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 21
It'll Be The Death of Me What does one do on an overcast day? Well, you can do all the things indoors that you've been putting off, or, if you're me, you get in the car to fin...	365	9	2	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	44 mins ago
Banner Days Ever have one of those days where you're really busy and eating seems to be something you cram in on your way to somewhere else? Well, I have lots of...	146	0	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 22
That's a Wrap! Waking to smokey skies yet again, I decided to head out to another community to ride my bike, hopefully under clear skies. I'm beyond fed up with the...	307	24	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	15 hrs ago
Soup's On! Monday night at the BBQ for the executive for photo club, I indulged in a half cup of coffee. Oh yeah, not a good thing. I got home about 11pm, totall...	310	23	1	Aug 2018	Sep 2018	3 hrs ago
Waste Not - Want Not I often wonder if we change as we age, or we just find our true core values and follow those instead of trying to please others? I was brought up as a...	263	14	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 22

Unzipped Don't you love it when you find you can put more into a day? Due to my low iron count, my ability to cram my day full has been severely compromised. I...	295	24	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 22
Juicy Details Years ago, I'd purchased a juicer and recipe book on juicing. The book included those combinations of fruits and vegetables that would address differe...	271	17	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	May 21
Escape Artists Anyone that's ever had a farm and farm animals has probably had at least one escape artist amongst their animals. This morning, riding early in th...	276	18	0	Aug 2018	Sep 2018	May 17
Male Drama Makers Although women are traditionally blamed for drama, Monday night proved that men can be just as big, or bigger drama queens. Monday was the BBQ for...	329	15	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	7 hrs ago
Addiction! Getting a Fix After my 45 mile ride last week, I noticed that I've increased my speed and pushed up my bike to a higher gear. Previous to the ride, I was riding at...	252	17	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 19
Streetwalkin': Resorting to the Resort One of my clients stopped by my house to pick up some product yesterday and advised me that it was smokier where I lived than in Harrison, at the lake...	297	18	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 16
Dreaded Phone Calls One of the most dreaded phone calls you get are from the doctor's office after you've had a battery of tests. Friday I went in to have all my blood wo...	333	17	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 11
Evacuation Alert Waking to the acrid smell of smoke and the tic, tic, tic of the blinds against the window sill, I dreaded what today would bring. The wil...	437	28	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 21
StreetWalkin': Playing for Notes On Friday, I headed down to Fairhaven in the U.S. to take my bike in for it's 10 hour check up. Needless to say, I have ridden far more than 10 hours,...	298	11	1	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 22
Neighbours from He** It's no wonder my blood pressure is high with a-hole noisy neighbours. Last weekend, there was a festival all weekend with pounding bass until 4am Thu...	381	34	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 22
Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd As wildfires rampage throughout my province and it being declared a state of emergency with over 600 burning, the one 10 km from me has created a thic...	374	32	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	May 20

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