Which Way to the Beach?!

We got home July 8th, and it’s been sunny ever since, with more of the same forecast through next weekend and beyond. I worry a bit about drought and the salmon soon trying to return,…

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Rainbow Knit Dresses: In for Fall??

My good blogging friend, IndigoAlison, commented on an earlier post that she sometimes wishes good children’s clothes could be sized up for adults. Bet she’d pass, though, on a rainbow- coloured handknit wool dress —…

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Beach Days, Here and There

Yesterday was destructively windy in Vancouver (a tree knocked the balcony off someone’s apartment!), but very refreshing here, cooling homes as it whipped up whitecaps on the water. It’s probably stirred the cooler temps back…

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Nestling back in, feeling lucky

I’m feeling quite pleased with myself for bringing the good weather back home with me — the whole time we were away, the temperature here rarely got into the low 20s, but this week it’s…

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Weekend Pleasures, weekday stresses

Busy, busy, weekend highlights: Dinner at our place with new friends, Saturday night, great fun! Menu, which I devised, and Pater executed (yes, Lucky, Lucky Me! — I was concentrating on this damn paper I…

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