Some of you know, but some of you don’t, I do a little podcast with an old fiddle friend of mine in Toronto. We started it about two years ago just for fun. Definitely not Peabody-worthy, but we have a lot of fun doing it. We took a few months off over the winter, but […]

Here we go again. Another spring, another big load of wood that must be stacked. This is two full cords worth, or 6 face cords. This is going to take a while. Good thing I have nothing but time on my hands. And also the black flies aren’t out yet. Hmm…which means I should also […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]