Sun on the Water, Spirits Rising

Today is scheduled to be rainy and grey as are most of the next five days. Right now, I look across the water and see low marine cloud enfolding the north end of Gabriola, and…

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Pattern Mixing, Guessing. . .

Continuing with my themes of finding spring in sprightly dress (since it’s not showing up in the form of sunshine) as well as boldly combining patterns as inspired by Karen, Une Femme, and those academically…

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and it’s getting better . . . .

I was wrong about the bronchitis — Pater insisted I visit a drop-in clinic on Saturday, and the perfunctory-doesn’t-begin-to-describe-it doctor diagnosed a sinus infection. Today’s my third day on antibiotics and I’m actually able to…

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Cheering Me On — Flowers and Poems and Celebrations

Some more garden cheer, in the form of the wonderfully fragrant mahonia japonica. Other cheerful things: The reading I organized went very well. Although I wish even more hockey and poetry fans could have heard…

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determinedly knitting toward happiness, one stitch at a time

‘member I was being all chipper yesterday, going on about the richness of life, blah, blah, sincere blah? Well, I’m still aiming at that, but omg, it’s tough when I keep sneezing and coughing and…

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