Some Cabbages, No Kings

I know I’ve mentioned our island’s new community gardens to you before. Yesterday Paul and I were out for a walk with my new camera and we peered over this deer-resistant (never say deerproof, you’ll…

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2007 Finished Knits

Although I do have all these projects organized in Ravelry, I thought I’d also like to have a spot on my blog that kept track of my knitting by year. I apologize to those of…

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Let there be Lights!

Here are some pictures from our evening with my mom at the Van Dusen Gardens’ Festival of Lights last week. After battling our way across town and back to pick mom up in Burnaby, we…

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against the elements

In my teens, I was impatient when my mother would say that a good coat was important, that it made a first impression. For me, a coat was something to keep me warm and dry…

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It’s beginning to look a lot . . .

Some guerrilla decorating happened in my neighbourhood last week, an annual attack perpetrated by someone with a generous heart, a love of fun, and an apparently unending supply of ornaments. None of our trees were…

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