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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