Reading List

From my daughter:
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or put an asterix next to…) the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in [...]

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I simply do not learn!

I am off again today to accompany Ed on another odyssey up London way. The “justification” for this is that my serger is finally ready and I need a new prescription which I can pick up on the way. I must love the guy because he could easily do both of these errands and I [...]

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Life or something like it

I’ve been keeping too busy (and – as a result – in too much pain) to have time or energy for contemplation lately. That’s maybe a good thing (except for the pain).
I’ve gotten a new terry robe made for myself which is heaven on earth since my old one was dead long before I finally [...]

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Trust me, it was fun!

Scooped another “meme” from my daughter. It’s a lot more time and trouble to do than it’s worth but kind of fun at that and there’s a strong possibility that I’m missing something obvious and it’s easier than I made it. It’s a photo mosaic. Here’s mine:
(OK, then. You might as well check it out [...]

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They’re driving me buggy!

Just looked up “choronomids” on Google. Pages and pages of stuff on fly fishing for brook trout including how to tie flies that look like the appropriate bug for the time of year and location. I don’t want to make them! I want to make them go away! Lake Erie doesn’t look like a trout [...]

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Fatherless

There was a time – 1997, to be exact – when I felt abandoned by what family I had left and there wasn’t all that much of it, given that I have/had a fairly large extended family though an “only” child, myself.
My paternal grandfather died – at 76 – when I was five. I remember [...]

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How many Finns . . .

We bought a hot tub! It was touch and go; the dealer tried very hard not to sell us one but we persevered. You had to be there and I truly wish you had been.
The dealer, an accountant with a sideline in Softubs, is a Finn! Ed’s mother was a Finn. His father was Swedish [...]

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Animal Crackers

Once, many years ago, when my children were small, I took them to a local McDonald’s for lunch. It was a treat, not a regular thing to the degree it seems to have become today. The Mickey D’s was at a busy intersection by the access to and from the Ambassador Bridge, a major US-Canada [...]

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When the ants go marching in . . . .

I think I am at sufficient remove to recount the incident of the ants.
I don’t like bugs. I have had a “reverence for life” since first reading, as a child, about Albert Schweitzer but – unlike him and the Buddhist monk in the tissue commercial – I cannot reliably promise to extend it to personages [...]

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How I spent my summer vacation

So, you ask, how was my weekend? Well . . .

That, dear reader, is a Canadian flag, flying upside down, a universal distress signal! By the time the park owner got up and came on the PA with his daily motivational rant at 7:15 of a Sunday morning, it had been righted, but I [...]

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