Arts and crafts and puzzles and so forth

I am loving seeing pictures on the social media of all my friends doing jigsaw puzzles. “Oh damn, one piece missing!” “Oh wow this 5000 piece puzzle took us all weekend!” Me, I love doing jigsaw puzzles. It’s been a cottage thing forever in my family. Sadly, I cannot do any of my beautiful puzzles […]

The new bartering system

There’s a lot of time to kill. And there are many entertaining ways to fill that time. Most of us have subscriptions to a few on-demand networks, don’t we? Of course we do. But not everyone has everything, and that one damn show you want to watch…do you get a subscription just for that show? […]

The sacred and the mundane

I cleaned my kitchen floor today. Yes I did. Now this sounds boring, tedious, one of those stupid chores that has to get done, especially in this day of clean surfaces and all. But it’s not just me telling you about my boring life. Well, not entirely. You see, today was the day I removed […]

So what are y’all watching?

Are you like me? Have you started 20 or 30 shows and bailed after the first episode? Or in the case of Tiger King, after 10 minutes!? There is so much good stuff out there. I have Netflix, Prime, Crave, HBO, and BritBox. They are showing all of the best shows from the golden era […]

Couples therapy during Covid19

This was an interesting day. It started on the lake. I spotted four bufflehead ducks, three male, one female. You know this is going, right? Well one of the males was just floating around, fishing, on his own, not really paying attention to the others. But boy oh boy did those other two males want […]

Anniversaries and Easter

This was a tough day. My parents celebrate their 65th anniversary today alone. Yep. In lock down in different wings of the Leacock retirement lodge. Sigh. We did our best, though. I got some boxed wine, a big container of dad’s favourite coffee, some snacky treats, and two bouquets of tulips and went down to […]

A blog as we slog through it

It’s starting to feel like summer has been cancelled, and we’re only in the first half of April. It’s a rather depressing thought, especially for those of us who lived up at the lake all year round. We did the hard winter time to appreciate the summer! And now…? Some are hopeful we can salvage […]