22nd
April
2017
The glow from my laptop covered the change from late afternoon to “Wow! It’s really dark outside!” Just a question of a few hours and a rich vein of genealogical data, and I’m in charge of my own world. The dog checks by, once in a while; there could be a loose biscuit around. With the other half of the household off to convene with kindred spirits, I make my own fun, as they say.
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18th
April
2017
Winter is over. I’ve made sure, by going over and paying off my snow removal contract for the season. Any further accumulation can just hug the ground until the melt finishes. Am I afraid of a sudden resurgence? Nah.
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9th
April
2017
Good TV weekend for curling fans. The World Championship (Men’s) will be decided within the next few hours, and my hope is that the Canadian team will prevail. After all, the round robin went by with them undefeated (11-0). The playoffs have also gone well, and the gold game starts just before my regular bedtime (time zone madness). If this sound familiar, it’s because we’re repeating the sequence laid down in the World Championship (Women’s) less than a fortnight ago. Although the counters (stones?) get reset next season, a double win for the country would certainly convince others that “we understand curling”.
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11th
December
2016
The song begins “It’s beginning to look a lot like” and before I can finish the phrase, the response was heard. “Time to take a family photo”. So many people that haven’t seen (or heard from) us in months, now that we’re metamorphosing into country folk.
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14th
November
2016
Weather permitting. Well, it did, and I enjoyed what could be the last BBQ of the season, in sunshine and calm at 12C. After all, I also went to make an appointment for tire swapping, so I’m not oblivious to what’s coming. The autumn lingers.
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4th
August
2016
When I first started trying to deal with my “need” to own more lenses for my camera, I also had to deal with the prices. Here in Canada, gear was expensive (and we had a limited number of places to actually shop). However, a friend of mine had a really neat catalog, wherein we could order photographic equipment at very reasonable prices. Two catches: we had to do our own negotiations with the customs office, and the shipping was, literally, via slow boat from China.
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29th
July
2016
Way back when, if I wanted photographs, I took them. And I processed them, and I printed them. A perfect blend of technologies that were linked. I understood the process, and so I processed. A lot.
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17th
July
2016
In the times before my digital cameras, I produced “real” pictures. A minimum of a negative, matched with a tiny proof on a contact sheet. Sometimes, a full paper-based picture. And with the simple math skills I’ve acquired, I can quote simple statistics. I have somewhere in excess of eighteen thousand negatives from one particular period.
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19th
June
2016
About an hour ago, the warmest moment of the afternoon: 26C. Not tropical, but given that we had a frost warning over the last couple of evenings, a suggestion that the worst of winter is past. I jest, barely. Out about in my bare toes, I know what the grass feels like once I slip into shade.
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11th
April
2016
Sometimes, I need a pinch of inspiration. Whether it’s musical, or literary or whatever; I need to see someone else doing something new, that I haven’t tried before.
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