OK, I was going to write about how spectacular it is to live in British Columbia when the sun shines, but my children have hijacked this post. So, how do you sing the song? Is it an Eeensy Weensy Spider or is it an Itsy Bitsy One? I won’t even include the option of that…

Last night we met a couple who erroneously identified Ms. Grace as a Westie, not a Scottie, an identity error, in my husband’s family, akin to confusing a Dane for a Swede. No biggie, as far as I’m concerned. However, their Westie story beat any Scottie dog tales I could ever tell you. So, here…

Once upon a time, new neighbours moved into the house next door. They were two men and their older mom, relatively new to Canada, buying their first house. Twice, Chuck observed them struggling to cut their grass with a weedeater. Being the nice neighbour that he is, every time Chuck mowed our lawn, he took…

OK, boomers, do you remember those sewing cards – cardboard pictures that came with a shoe lace type string that you wove in and out of little holes that outline the shape on the card?. I just saw them advertised as "old-fashioned" sewing cards. Yikes, how did I get to be this old? How about…

"Bushtits are seldom parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbirds." That sentence from the bird book sent us into peals of laughter this evening. I love when summer visitors start arriving and we eat on the deck and our silliness can be heard for miles. Takes my mind off the ten stitches in my shoulder where the "it’s…

Have you ever seen something that is so foreign to you, so incomprehensible you look twice to check its existance? And then you look again just in case it was the MSG or maybe the wrong kind of mushrooms in dinner’s chop suey. Consider these. Excuse me, butt pads? In my family we are afflicted…

I believe in God. And I’m certain that "He" has very little control over a world that we mortals have influenced to the point of tragedy, illness and misfortune. I’m not going to get into the details of my kind of faith, but I know this to be true. Why? Because, as we have heard…

1. A clump of Iris I bought on clearance at the grocery store a few years back. This year there were at least five dozen blossoms. 2. My favourite Gingher embroidery scissors in the Leah colourway. 3. My current purse knitting project, a Fibertrends Landscape scarf in Koigu KPPM P527. 4. No photo, but enroute…

After much anguish and paper signing (I don’t do debt very easily), I now own a Kia Rondo, affectionately dubbed "the Runto" by Chuck. The good news is that it’s not technically a minivan but still holds seven if necessary, just right for all our visitors. It’s fun living in a tourist attraction; when we…

Even if you've never had a migraine, please read this post, but read it to its end. You might have them in the future or know of someone who can benefit from this. I'll try to summarize so it isn't migraine inducing post due to its length. It's basically a series of clues that led…