I’m an in-between season kinda gal. Perhaps that’s just me through and through, somewhere in the mushy middle, hardly extreme. One of the best things about spring and fall is watching the coming and going of weather and birds. Yep. I know. The hobby your grandparents had. Birding. Even with birding, I’m not an extremist. […]
Month: April 2020
Meanwhile, spring comes to the lake
I’ve been keeping a cottage log since the first day I took ownership on July 6, 2001. Yep, just a couple of months before 9/11. I have been logging things like the first snow fall, the first robin, the joy of the monarch butterflies returning. Totally geeky, eh? But I think it’s important because I […]
Strange behaviours
I feel like Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey: WHAT’S A WEEKEND? Yep. Every day I wake up and think…ummm…ok, I think it’s Thursday, or maybe that was yesterday…? I know it would be different if I were working from home. That way I’d have a calendar of meetings and so forth. Alas, I don’t have […]
Stewart Lake in the early days of COVID19
It started out okay. Well, by okay I mean I was going to do my bit. Stay home. Wash my hands. Stay home again. Wash my hands again. So I did. I cleaned every surface of my cottage. I reorganized the kitchen cupboards, getting rid of tinned food that expired in 2018, tossing old spices […]
Look who’s back!
No, this is not an April Fools joke. This is my first post in just over a year. Shame on me. But I did get work and that was good. And a lot of other family stuff…I know, no excuse. And now, there is NO EXCUSE! And it’s a good time to start journal-ing, keeping […]