Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 -( +5˚C / +41˚F — Grey skies & damp in Atlantic Canada @ 8:00 am )- — Economic Warfare — — The oil and gas industries received $34 Billion dollars per year in taxpayer-funded subsidies? Mid-priced Electric cars cost about $31,000.00 Canadian Dollars. They figure there…
Thursday, December 24th, 2015 -( +8˚C / +46˚F dark & damp with a full moon shining on Atlantic Canada @ 10:45 pm )- Cathi and I went to the cinema tonight and saw the new Star Wars Movie. I enjoyed it, even knowing it had been strained through a highly…
Monday. December 14, 2015 -( 0˚C / 32˚F — Grey and Damp and Threatening Rain, Snow, Ice Pellets and Freezing rain @ 9:00 am in Atlantic Canada )- We’ve been worried about the deer who have been making it through our last couple very tough winters by taking the chance…
Friday, October 9th, 2015 -( 8˚C / 48˚F Grey, damp, threatening rain @ 2:07 pm in Atlantic Canada )- Today would have been John Lennon’s 75th Birthday. — The committee put in an appearance this morning. We don’t have any oats yet, I tossed out a couple pieces of bread….
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F — Cloudy, damp & wet outside @11:11 am in Atlantic Canada )- It’s my cousin K.C.’s birthday – — I dreamed we were discovering shark fins sticking up through the ground. Some of them were still trying to move. I was walking…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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, …
November 1st, 2013: November is NaNoWriMo month. I might not get a lot of blogging done if I’ll be chugging out at least 1600 words a day for all of November writing a nano-novel. ~~~~~Jim
Sunday, September 15th, 2013. 12˚C /54˚F @9:29 pm in our neck of the woods. We worked on at least getting the floor kit together for our new and needed 10′ by 8′ Steel Shed. (got it at a bargain price the other day). That’s me with the jeep and van…
Saturday, August 17, 2013. 14˚C / 57˚F @ 8:00 am EDT. Looks cool and clear here. Cathi should have embarked on her house hunting marathon day. I tried to encourage her last night to send me Smart Phone Email with impressions of each house as she goes. I don’t think…
Friday, August 16, 2013. 22˚C/67˚F -last time I noticed. (Clear, but muggy….) The photo that should be to the left is that of Cathi with Moe purring away , happy and safe in the knowledge that the big black dog is sleeping in his dog crate in the other room….
I’ve been working all night on stuff at the computer with an orange cat trying to get and hold my attention by scratching at my leg. Cathi was pretty much giddy all evening after we got word that everything has been signed and the closing will take place on September…
Thursday, August 1st, 2013. I think today is my cousin, Lesley’s, birfday. 18°C / 64°F and raining here in what they tell me is “The Real World”. (((Ignore the intrusive phone calls, ignore the evil people who want to control your life, ignore all the b.s. “facts” they try to…
July 20, 2013. 21°C / 64°F @ 6:30 pm (depends on which applet I’m looking at…) Cousin Jamie’s and Kaylie S.’s Birfday. ———-We had a brief but intense thunder storm a while back. One rumbling bit of thunder lasted so long I almost thought it was more earthquake than thunderstorm….
—Friday, July 26, 2013. 10°C / 50°F @ 6:10 am. (unusually cool for July here) We’re Moving. Link (Click on “Link” to see an evolving web page re: the move). I’ve just cleaned the kitchen floor after Moe peed on it again. Maybe he missed the low sided training tray we…
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