It froze last night, a hard frost. It isn’t the first frost of the late summer, as we had a slight touch of frost a few weeks ago. However, this frost required us to cover most of our garden plants in an attempt to save them, especially the tomato plants. They were saved, thought they don’t look so good. There is no frost in the forecast for the next two weeks, but forecasts are not all that dependable. With this…
This pandemic is resulting in the world changing faster than what we would normally experience. For my wife and myself, the inability to travel to the USA to visit our middle child and her family is one change that has us experiencing lost time with our growing grandsons who live there. Even closer to home, our relationship with our neighbours have been altered. Normally, we hug when we get together with our neighbours of the past eighteen years. Since all…
Well, this new version of the blog site hasn’t been up long and I am pleased with the number of visitors received to date. There was one exception which had me question the “stats”. Yesterday, I had an “extra” three hundred visits. Along with the visits was a comment that needed approval which led me to believe that the extra visitors were seekers of porn. Needless to say, the comment was directed to the spam bin. Today, the visits are…
It’s one of those tumultuous days as far as weather is concerned. Rain, wind, clouds, spotty breaks with the sun peeking through, and cool temperatures. While walking with my wife yesterday before our evening meal, I mentioned that I was shelving a story I had been trying desperately hard to edit into a decent novel. I was frustrated beyond belief as the story itself is a good one. It just isn’t the right time for me to work on it….
It’s another very windy day with the sun shining. The wind is out of the northwest meaning that it feels colder than what the thermometer tells me. Our morning walk will still happen, likely just before noon hour. Yesterday’s canning corn went relatively well with just a few bumps along the way. Today’s attempt should be smoother now that we know what we are doing. Four dozen corn were done yesterday with another three dozen remaining for today. Yesterday, once…
It’s the late afternoon here in this small town on the Canadian prairies. It is sunny and relatively warm. I woke up to a temperature of +2 degrees Celsius. The garden tells me that there was a faint touch of frost on some of the leaves. I guess I could say that summer is officially over and that autumn has made an entrance. The strong winds of the past few days is appreciated by the farmers trying to harvest their…
Yesterday, we celebrated forty-nine years of marriage. As is normal for us, a walk in the countryside was included as part of our anniversary celebrations. We drove to one of our starting points near the hills to the south of our prairie town home, about seven kilometres. After parking the truck in a field that had been combined. I set my Garmin watch to record our hiking trail and other interesting stats. We followed the dirt road for 2.5 kilometres…
Well, it has been some time, and I am not too sure that this is going to survive. After all, none of the past blog sites have managed to survive. That said, I have managed to find a few old export files from last year that serve as a historical reminder of that blogging past. I am re-approaching the idea of blogging because I am a writer and a blogger. I began my first blog site in 2006, a travel…
The new privacy fence is done. I still have a repair to do for the old fence sections by the garden. With that done, I now have a new fence, a new garden shed, and a new deck. That brings an end to my focus on building projects, at least until the autumn season. This has been a very different kind of spring for me. Normally, I would have travelled to three different homes scattered across the Canadian and American…
It’s not that there is no sunshine, it’s just that it is so fickle about staying out long enough to make a difference. There has been just enough sunshine to allow me to keep my tan which I acquired in Ecuador during the winter. It’s the prairie spring winds which really get to me. But enough about weather. Work on the back deck is slowly coming to an end. All that remains is a bit of trim of Duradek tiles…