September is here. Time to scream or smile?
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015 -( 22˚C / 72˚F — Sunny & pleasant @ 2:41 pm in Atlantic Canada )- Some of today’s progress in photographs – ~~~~~ Jim
Monday Morning – Resurrecting Old Computers, Installing update #120 of 220 —
Monday, August 31st, 2015 -( 16˚C / 61˚F — Cool & sunny & bright @ 8:29 am on my sister’s birthday here in Atlantic Canada )- (& it’s 2:29 am in Alaska, where she is 🙂 ) — So, yes, I’ve been trying to fix some problems on an aging…
Don’t Vote For Anyone Who:
Don’t Vote For Anyone Who: — Believes they answer to some human being ‘higher’ than you. — Believes they know better than you do how you should live your life. — Believes there is any such thing as ‘The Great Unwashed”. — Looks down their noses at any Religion. —…
Weekend Progress @ the Pallet Factory?
“Wicked Early?” Monday Morning, August 17th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F Mostly Cloudy & still dark @ 5:30 am here in Atlantic Canada )- I recently retweeted / reported that France has passed a law making planned premature obsolescence a crime. The less than two year old batteries to my…
This Week At The Pallet Factory
Thursday, August 13th, 2015 -( 24˚C / 75˚F — Cloudy and a bit muggy @ 2:57 pm in Atlantic Canada )- Um… Cathi was on ‘Holiday’/Vacation all last week, She got more done at the ‘Pallet Factory’ than I did, pretty much completed the basic design of her bed frame…
Cathi Delivered Her Painting to the New Community Centre
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015. The new Community Center, which began its life as something like the Alex Gibson School in Marysville, New Brunswick, which has been incorporated into Fredericton – will open tomorrow, Thursday. Today Cathi delivered a painting of hers to the new Community Centre, in time for Tommorow’s…
Sudden Rain Halts Work Outside, So Cathi Painted A Painting.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F Overcast & Dark @ 11:59 pm here in Atlantic Canada )- — Cathi, who has been planning to get creative with pallet wood after seeing what several people have posted lately about what they’ve been doing with wood rescued from shipping pallets,…
New Look- & Thank You Jassper!
Okay- We’ve been busy in a lot of areas lately and when we checked this page/ these pages for the first time in months, we found that: 1.) There were 1,942 spam comments waiting to be deleted. & 2.) ‘upgrading’ to a much hyped newer theme can be a pain…
I’m not interested in getting more hits. I don’t care if I’m last on every search engine.
— So Don’t Bother sending me any more spam about getting this blog listed higher anywhere.
Doe & Fawn, Cathi’s Photo
Monday, July 14, 2014. 9:03 pm. Cathi got a much better shot with her cell phone than I did with my camera. There it is. Taken at about the same time I took my photos that came out so … um, not so good. ~~~~~Jim
Doe & Fawn
Monday, 14 July, 2014 -( 28˚C / 82˚F @ 8:30 pm )- Our neighbours told us that the deer who has been coming around lately (which is odd behaviour for a deer, they usually disappear all summer and start coming around to augment their diet in September) had triplets and…
I’ve Seen A Lot Of Green Things Lately (Poem from 1971, rediscovered in archives)
I’ve Seen A Lot Of Green Posted by Jim – July 14th, 2014 I’ve seen a lot of green things lately growing, trimmed to fit a grasping need to feel our power over life and cars still speed past my window in a hurry to get to somewhere they’ll probably…
Tom Rush Poem etc.
Tom Rush (A Tribute To Tom Rush And Crazier, more Hope Filled Days / Daze) ===== ( This Is To Tom Rush / But That’s Not A Title ) I’ve seen you reaching to understand the feelings of everyone around you, like you thoughts yours didn’t matter, you…
Saturday Evening
Saturday, March 22, 2014. We might have gotten 5 new centimeters ( 2 inches? ) of snow- This was probably the height of the snow storm. Later, it turned to misty rain, then back to light snow. We had a graduation, a registered nurse exam passing, an engagement and an…
Deer Photos with “Sports” setting
Tuesday, March 18, 2014. -15˚C / +5˚F // -25˚C Wind Chill at 7:00 am. While I was in New Hampshire, zooming around the state with one of my best all time friends, I actually learned something. First, when photos in a semi dark restaurant came out blurry, my cousin wondered…
Cat Help
Monday, March 17, 2014. Bitterly Cold most of the day. Wicked Wind… On my recent whirlwind trip to New Hampshire to see my 90 year old Mother while she was visiting for a couple days from Alaska. I bought a nice homemade cutting board from an old (and close) friend….
The Committee is in Attendence
— Thursday, March 06, 2014. -26˚C / -13˚F @ 7:00 am. (( or -18˚C/0˚F — Depending on who you believe and which thermometer they’re reading )) I should measure the distance from the window to the top of that bit of hill back there. I think a couple herds of…
March is here, and the snow is pretty darn high.
Sunday, March 2, 2014. (Sally Spencer’s Birthday) -12˚C / +10˚F @ 11:11 pm. For those of you who miss the snow- I won’t be the kind of jerk who leers and says, “hell, you can come shovel me out any time you want.” There’s already more than enough of that…
Night Photos at the River
Sunday, February 2nd, 2014. (( Happy Birthday Lisa and Ricky )). +1˚C / +34˚F @ 7:35 am. Wind Chill is at 24˚F / -3˚C. Snowing, Possibility it might mix with rain or “Frozen Mix” later. On Friday, we ran around like crazy and got quite a bit done, even managed…
Blackout- With Woodstove, Dog & Guitar… & Rivers of Flowing Orbs.
Sunday, January 26th, 2014. We lost power at something like 7:05 pm and got it back at about 9:24 pm Atlantic Time. Cathi tossed a couple more logs in the woodstove and we were toasty warm. She grabbed her guitar and played and sang and had a very attentive Jassper, …
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