The theme in my FB newsfeed this morning: We’re sick of snow, we want it to stop; spring’s on Tuesday but it looks like January; that’s enough. I saw a “snow shots” thread where people around the UK were posting winter white photos of their back yards, and I participated with one of mine from …
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort (J.R. …
Still I have the warmth of the sun within me tonight. – The Beach Boys Tonight, the weather forecast is the same no matter where I look. The Weather Network has the most dire prediction – an overnight low of -31C, the wind making it feel like -38 . Environment Canada is marginally more optimistic, calling for …
From time to time, I’ve slipped the surly bonds¹ of prairie winter and booked a tropical vacation. In 2010, my husband and I celebrated my newly-awarded doctoral degree, dipping our toes into St. Lucia’s white sands and turqoise surf. Last year, our Save-on-More grocery points bought us two tickets to Mazatlan, where we ambled along …
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