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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...	897	15	1	Mar 2019	Apr 2021	Apr 15
A Nagging Weight After a lot of teeth gnashing and hair pulling, I finally broke down and phoned my bookkeeper to ask her to do my books for the past 18 months. Ye...	629	4	0	Jun 2019	Oct 2019	2 hrs ago
Children - Guaranteed to Break Your Heart I've been away from blogging for quite some time due to just having too many other things taking up my attention and time. Deciding to deactivate...	774	12	0	Jun 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 17
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...	732	6	1	Mar 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 15
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...	731	9	0	Mar 2019	Mar 2019	Apr 16
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...	678	13	0	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	Apr 15
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...	655	4	1	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	8 hrs ago
"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...	738	9	0	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	6 hrs ago

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...	720	18	0	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	Apr 15
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...	1,999	62	2	Jun 2018	Jan 2019	Apr 17
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...	650	6	1	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	Apr 15
Canadian GoFundMe Raises $6B In Two Hours To Pay For Privacy Hedge Along Entire US Border	644	0	1	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	Apr 17
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...	713	6	0	Dec 2018	Dec 2018	Apr 16
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...	733	14	0	Oct 2018	Nov 2018	Apr 15
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...	661	2	0	Nov 2018	Nov 2018	24 hrs ago
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...	663	5	0	Nov 2018	Nov 2018	Apr 17
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...	991	8	0	Oct 2018	Oct 2018	Apr 15
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...	704	18	0	Oct 2018	Oct 2018	Apr 15
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...	732	12	0	Oct 2018	Oct 2018	Apr 15
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...	575	12	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	597	8	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 17

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...	618	8	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	628	8	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	777	18	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	869	5	2	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	483	0	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 17
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...	661	22	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	914	21	1	Aug 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 17
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...	784	14	1	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 17
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...	634	20	0	Sep 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15
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...	649	17	0	Aug 2018	Sep 2018	Apr 15

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...	708	12	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 15
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...	714	17	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 17
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...	660	16	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 15
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...	935	24	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 15
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,...	714	9	1	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 15
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...	880	26	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 15
Zucchini, Biking, and More Zucchini! Today's 'D' day - or better known as the day I return to my doctor for him to give me a physical and check my blood pressure readings. Fortunately, fo...	600	20	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	56 mins ago
Stuck!! Smoke from a forest fire 6 miles away is so thick you can almost bite the air and chew it, if you could inhale enough air not to choke on the smell. Y...	611	14	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 7
StreetWalker: Working the Market Yesterday I was vending at the White Rock Farmer's Market - a highly popular beach community and where I lived while my daughter was growing up. As I...	1,108	19	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 8
My Day on the Street After a very busy week, I've finally been able to go through my photos of my street photography sojourn to Vancouver. I'll just post the pics and add...	819	20	0	Aug 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 8
How Does Your Garden Grow? As temperatures soar here, I find myself diligently watering the front and back gardens morning and night. The one downfall of having all those huge s...	788	17	0	Jul 2018	Aug 2018	Apr 17

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