Our First Anniversary
We are celebrating our first anniversary in our new house. Lots has happened in the past twelve months; we said goodbye to Chester and hello to Penny, we celebrated all the occasions, experienced all the seasons and we are still speaking to each other. We survived the downstairs renovation and the moving of the palm […]
January 43, 2022
This has felt like a month with no finish line – a never ending string of Mondays and Tuesdays and I’m tired of it. I’m so done of January I’m even cranky with Alexa. Yup, the perfectly calm and pleasant voice of the granter of requests is seeing a side of me I usually keep under wraps. It […]
The Boring Twenties
I’ve been trying to ignore January by pretending the the clean slate of a new year was still an option but it’s been a fool’s mission. 2022 arrived and its resemblance to 2020 and 2021 is disheartening. This new year got a lackluster reception at my house, it arrived while I was sleeping and I’ve been avoiding […]
Sports-ing
I was never a sportsy kid – I didn’t play sports, I didn’t watch sports, I didn’t care about sports – sports-ing was for other kids, keeners. But all that changed once I had kids of my own. My children inherited their father’s natural co-ordination and balance, they were good at any sport they chose to […]
And then…
Fergus came to stay with Penny and I last week while his people were on vacation. She and I had big plans to show him a good time – we were going to keep him too busy to miss anyone. (Fergus has become Penny’s best friend – she was excited to have him for a sleepover). We had […]
M I A
My neighbors upstairs have been away this past week – they left me in charge of their charges while they were gone. We’ve gotten along swimmingly, these charges and I (for the most part). Well… maybe not exactly swimmingly, the actual swimmer in the house has been missing in action for a few days. Steve, the swimmer, […]
One of those days…
Instead of blogging this morning I took my car to one of those quick/cheap oil changing places. How’d that go? Let’s just say there’s a reason the car has to ask more than once before it gets new oil. Good morning. I’d like to get my oil changed. (Waiting while oil changer person pulls up the history […]
Boom!
Here’s a kicker – the baby-boomers are now the Old Age Pensioners (WTF!). I for one was gobsmacked when this particular penny dropped. I’ve been receiving money from the government for a few years and it’s only just occurred to me that I qualified for the windfall because I was old – because until the other morning […]
Catching up with the Times
I’ve always been a little late to the technology party, a little reluctant to move with the times. Not so my husband – he was always excited with each new advancement, keen to jump right in. We were one of the first families with a video camera (it had several components but if you were […]
A pet friendly story
An eight day lag between leaving the condo and moving into my new digs has given me an opportunity to squeeze in a mini holiday prior to my lifestyle change. Finding the right accommodation for said mini holiday in the midst of a pandemic posed a bit of a problem as did accommodating my four-legged […]