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…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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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Rain Rain Rain…

Sunday, January 12th, 2014. +7˚C / +45˚F @ 8:15 am. Very Wet outside. I’m confused about when exactly I shot these photos. We pretty much conked out and slept most of Saturday. In the evening we had a nice visit with Alex. He is very happy with his new apartment…

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Freezing Rain On Emily’s Birthday

Saturday, January 11th, 2014. -4˚C / +25˚F @ 1:00 pm with rain freezing and people having a heckuva time getting up the little hill on the corner of our Street and Canada Street. We had planned to go check out an all day breakfast place that one of our local…

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Fun With Security Cams

= January 8th, 2014. Natsha F.’s Birthday. = For Christmas this year, Santa Claus got us a security camera system (partially to see if we can capture anything spiritual with the 100 foot night vision capability). Instructions say “set up the cameras close to the recorder before installing them wherever…

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Happy Russian Christmas?

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014. I think today is Eastern Orthodox Christmas Day. -8˚C / +17˚F @ 10:00 am. There was a stiff northerly wind blowing at about 7:30 am. We had all kinds  of warnings that a Polar Vortex was coming to freeze our behinds off. There were some school…

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Happy New Year. (Yes, I believe it is a HAPPY & NEW -Year)

Hubbudah….. Wednesday Evening, January First, 2014. It is -15˚C / +5˚F @ 6:30 in our neck of the woods. Monday Morning- We had been up all night, listening to Coast to Coast AM and trying to catch up on all sorts of things. My step daughter caught a plane back…

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Today’s Headlines

Thursday, November 28, 2013. 0˚C / 32˚F @1:30 pm. Once again, if a politician opens his mouth and the word “jobs” comes out, you might as well not listen any further, there will be no truth in what follows (or preceeds) that. Other words to beware of: “Leadership” “Security” “Law…

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Windy Rainy Cold Wednesday

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 ( a “6” day) ((  🙁  )) 55˚F/13˚C @ 11:59 pm. There was snow on the ground this morning, I think I took photos (haven’t uploaded them yet.) After yesterday’s power outage and subsequent internet outage, we had a technician pay us a visit this morning….

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Almost Halloween

—Sunday, Octobre 27th, 2013 (grey and damp, 8˚C / 46˚F @ 7:20 pm here) Yesterday we discovered the place where we can turn in bottles and cans for deposit rebates here. Then we continued on up the road a short distance to visit the Northside Market for the second time…

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Update:

Wednesday, October 9th (John Lennon’s Birthday) 2013. 2˚C / 36˚F @ 3:08 am. I’ve been trying to catch up with stuff on a lot of things at once. I’m planning on putting a time line of the big move and lots of what happened with lots of photos on the…

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Sunday- Box City Revisited? Aquarium TeeVee Channels, Metal Shed Floors & Warm Friendly Neighbours.

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…

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We’re Here.

Cool Evening. September 7, 2013. We had an amazing dinner at “Issacc’s Way” (sp?) And Ice Cream at the lighthouse. The rest of the world has lost its mind, lost its soul and lost its way. People here are living a dream of what life really should be. Tomorrow I…

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I Don’t Want To Jinx This, But-

This is where we believe we’ll be moving to. Rates went up after Cathi’s agreement was signed and in place and I have this sickening feeling that the Mortgage people would really really like to reject something so they can charge higher rates. But I also have the spiritual reassurance…

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