My favourite room in the house is my covered porch. It’s a living room, dining room, library and laundry room and solarium all rolled up into one special space. Today it’s the laundry room. I don’t have a clothes line yet. For now, I use a laundry rack. And I dry the sheets and towels… Continue reading Watching the laundry dry
Category: life
no bellydance here! these posts are about everything else.
The Joyful letter J
Wishing you a joyful Saturday. I hope you spend today doing something that makes you happy. This morning Mr C and I are enjoying a good visit with old friends…good coffee and good conversation, lots of laughter. Later we’ll be celebrating our son’s birthday with my sisters & brothers-in-law. Good food, good conversation. Laughter… Continue reading The Joyful letter J
F: Firewood at Fox Lake
A couple of years ago I started making little one-minute vignettes. I called them meditative moments. A chance to sit and relax, rest your mind and gaze at a meditative moving picture. Here is last November 18, 2012. Getting ready for winter at the Fox Lake cabin: It’s so relaxing, watching else someone stack the… Continue reading F: Firewood at Fox Lake
Vintage Adjust-O-Matic Dress Form and a Healthy Body Image
Have you ever seen one of these? Made in the mid-1960s and costing only $6.95: “with your Adjust-o-Matic dress form you see in advance just how attractive and becoming your dress, skirt, coat or blouse will look!” Inside the box was a bewildering assortment of pieces. I have to admit, as a person who kind… Continue reading Vintage Adjust-O-Matic Dress Form and a Healthy Body Image
Thrifty Retirement Living: how we saved $1,800!
One of the challenges of early retirement is learning to live within a (smaller than we were used to) fixed income. There isn’t a lot of wiggle room, and making a big purchase means the money has to come out of our investment savings. That’s okay… we’ve built in a buffer to cover the occasional… Continue reading Thrifty Retirement Living: how we saved $1,800!
On knowledge, wisdom and a good bullshit detector {Just Write 8}
Good Sunday morning! I am sitting here by my kitchen window, coffee at my elbow and browsing my morning blog posts. The washing machine and the dryer are both on and I can barely hear the radio over the noise. Not that I’m paying attention, but I enjoy Michael Enright’s Sunday Edition, and CBC is… Continue reading On knowledge, wisdom and a good bullshit detector {Just Write 8}