Thursday October 25th, 2018 I am a fan of Christmas Vacation, the movie. One of the highlights is the squirrel segment. Clark harvests a new Christmas tree from the neighbours yard and brings in a pesky squirrel. These folks have…
On Friday I had the opportunity to be outside alone with my 3 year old grandson Harrison. He noticed I was wearing my rubber boots (actually mostly neoprene). “Let’s go to the big mud” he directed. Off we went to…
Wednesday September 26th 2018. It has been a while since I sat here and tried to put words to screen. I have been on a Hiatus? The last time I was associated with a Hiatus Paul Van Boxel was involved.…
Thursday June’s 14th, 2018 “The actual lyric was If I’d known you were coming I’d a baked a cake”. Today I’m baking a cake. It is H’s birthday today and everyone else is working. So, cake duty falls to Pop…
Tuesday June’s 13th, 2018 I like to take pictures. The obvious next step (in my world) is to close the loop and progress to making frames and mounting my favourite pictures. The plan, to search out local wood to build…
Monday May’s 7th, twenty eighteen I wanted to get a couple of pairs of pants. Nay, I needed to get a couple of pairs of pants. Why is one pant unit called a pair? I’ve just googlized this pair thing…
Getting the boat ready for the summer is only half the battle. We had our car in Florida allowing us to bring more home. Included in this more brought home; generator and the windlass for sandblasting and painting. The scurvy…
Saturday April’s 14th, twenty eighteen Yesterday while I was working on Fracas and ML was returning the Mangos to their boat this little ‘gator entertained me. He would lay beside the boat near me and then suddenly dart away only…
Friday April’s 13th, twenty eighteen Notwithstanding, Fracas is being lifted and stored ashore today, Friday the thirteenth, it won’t be as stressful as yesterday. Yesterday we had to take the old girl spelunking. We had to put a size 10…
Before yesterday everyone on shore was talking about how dry it was and how “we really need a good rain”. Yesterday we got a good rain, and we got a lot of wind, angry wind. I was thankful to be…