Helen on March 9th, 2010

I find I rarely leave the house for a walk without my camera. And today, although suddenly the weather has turned colder, I was determined to get some photos of the trees. This is, after all one of the reasons I moved here… trees in bloom in February and March.
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Helen on September 19th, 2009

Today, after checking the paper for garage sale ads and noticing so little out there, we have not gone out garage sailing. We’ve decided what is there is so far apart that it would waste gas, so it looks like last week was our last outing. And last week we went all over [...]

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Saturday was one of those days that dawns with cloudless blue skies, warm breezes and the whole day ahead of us to enjoy. We had our cereal on the deck while surveying our wild garden. Just a couple of days before a hummingbird had come right up on the deck to drink nectar from [...]

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Helen on May 24th, 2009

 

Garage sales are like little shops that open up on a Saturday morning at around 8:30 and close up abruptly a few hours later never to open again. Somehow you have to get around to a lot of them before the magic hour when they all close like flowers after sunset. So you [...]

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Helen on May 1st, 2009

Every night the news is full of one word- recession. So many people getting laid off or downsized as they called it in the 90’s when Bill got laid off from a very nice job as a Graphic Designer for a big Oil company in Calgary. We’d gotten used to living a comfy [...]

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