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Daylight Savings Vote
A few of my friends and I met up earlier this evening, er, late in the afternoon for an after work run around the neighbourhood. As the winter approaches, daylight runs are going to get increasingly rare, and I’ll need to fish my running headlamps from storage and make sure they are charged up. Of
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spayed
This morning I made a heart-aching drive to the veterinarian clinic to drop off a one-year-old puppy who, over the past almost-a-year has filled that same heart with joy … and for whom I’m returning the favour by having her reproductive organs surgically removed. As per our agreement with the breeder, and in consultation with
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Short: Dusting
The inevitable happened. We woke up this morning to the first snow of the season. True, it wasn’t much more than a light dusting, bits of white clustered onto the outdoor furniture and holding stubbornly onto the shady places in the still-green grass. But it was snow. Just a little bit. Though enough to signal
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Last Day of Summer
And just like that the leaves turned yellow, the air felt crisper, and another summer drifted into memory. In three short months we managed to squeeze in quite a lot of action, particularlly considering that the world was still fairly locked down with this pandemic. We visited the mountains for two weeks across two separate
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Friday Finds: Pressed Flowers
Fatherhood is funny. Finding honest and interesting things to do with a young child can lead one down all sorts of previously unfollowed paths of creative exploration and into all kinds of time-filling follies. For (nearly) fourteen years I’ve been nudging my daughter to try new things, to explore her creative self, and find fanciful
Category: life & stuff
Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.