Today I’m exhausted. I felt like looking at this gorgeous summer shot of the sun. Why? Well, because I haven’t seen it in a few weeks. I thought it might perk me up a bit. I think it’s working. December is here and that means a lot of busy weekends, exhausting work days and shopping and decorating […]
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I have a confession. I have a magazine subscription addiction. I have another confession. None of them are food related. Shocking I know. I just don’t have the time to be writing about food, photographing food, cooking food, and also reading about food. I like to blaze my own path when it comes to food
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This week has been hectic with the bad weather and the not having a car to be able to escape from the house. We only bought winter tires for one vehicle, being the stringent adherers to a budget that we are. Alas it makes for some pretty boring days trapped in the house with two kids
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It’s a little late but, Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! Seeing as we had our Thanksgiving almost a full month ago, and I already shared my recipe for Pumpkin Chiffon Pie (the ultimate Thanksgiving dessert!) I thought I would instead, share some photos from a Thanksgiving a few years ago. Before my sister
It’s been a rough couple of days out here at the lake. Over a foot of snow and it’s still coming down. On Saturday night we had the misfortune of living on the only street that lost power. Gee, how could that have happened? No one came out to fix it until about 24 hours
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The last fleeting rays of sun and a glimpse of the rain that will soon overtake us. Yes, living on the west coast of BC is a very tropical experience. That is if you think of “rain forest” when you think of tropical and not water as warm as a bathtub and dewy skin all
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We took a little walk this weekend. I made it into a photo shoot. I can’t help myself. We have so many photos on our computer that we’ve taken to buying yearly subscriptions for online backup. If I lost them, I wouldn’t know what to do. I need them to be saved elsewhere, far away,
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