21st
March
2021
I’ve been think about a house from my past. I lived there, for about eighteen months. Some houses are more important than others, and this one has been shelter from the storms to a large part of my family. You see, my grandfather had it built to celebrate getting married, back in 1918. Just over a century ago; a big deal in the Canadian context. We don’t do millenial castles.
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posted in genealogy |
20th
March
2021
I finished formal schooling almost a lifetime ago. Once I decided that my time in a classroom chair were over, it was on to the next level in my education. Self-paced learning.
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posted in music |
19th
March
2021
Our dog-neighbour with the spooky eyes has joined our pack for the night. He came early, silently, and made himself at home without incident. Later, a family member dropped off the huge electrical hand control (he wears the equivalent of those ankle bracelets favoured by convicts, except around his neck); I don’t need to use it, because we don’t let him run away to see the world. I feel good that we are seen as a refuge for a tame creature. Next on the list, the wilds from outside.
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posted in food, genealogy |
18th
March
2021
My family history continues to grow. Last evening, I received a photo of myself, in the company of my parents AND two of my grandparents. Until recently, family photos tended to feature rare, static moments captured on a Kodak. Generally grainy, from a 6×6 frame. In this case, almost sepia (it’s a colour long admired by photo studios and not much else). Usually with a birthday cake in the foreground.
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17th
March
2021
Just beyond the large windows in the living room, we have an array of bird feeders. We moved into multiple dispensers of sunflower seeds some seasons back; still waiting for a thank you note from our feathered neighbours. Anyhow, whenever we look outside, there’s always something to remind us of our important role in the local food chain. Feathered, furred, whatever; seeds are available and popular.
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posted in humour |
16th
March
2021
Once upon a time, I was trained to watch the weather. No joke. Several months of intense classroom and lab time, under the leadership of Norm, the met tech. And his favourite reporting term was “visby verbil”, which was the teletype shorthand for rapidly changing observation distance. As in, now you see it, now you don’t.
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posted in health, Wx |
15th
March
2021
The dog is old enough to know better. SO, when he took advantage of an open door to tbe basement, and managed to get into the new paint on the stiar steps (coming and going), I had nothing to say. Well, nothing good, at least. Right now, his paws are carefully highlighted. Almost like fingerprints.
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posted in sports, Wx |
14th
March
2021
As a homeowner, I consider myself fortunate. At best, the bank is very much a hand’s off partner in my daily life, and I was able to choose the features I wanted in my home. With more than a year in “confined to quarters” life, the house works for me, rather than against.
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posted in health |
13th
March
2021
The things we learn! It seems that I grew up in a time where talent counted for something, and the musicians that sounded good in ’70 still catch my ear, a half century later. I came across two different live concert videos by Pentangle. Real musicians, with nothing manufactured about their sound (acoustic). I will return, because good merits more than a single sitting. There hasn’t been much live music in my life, this last year (not pointing fingers). Digging deep into the archives is just a compensatory mechanism.
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posted in music |
12th
March
2021
Lately, I’ve been following the exploits of a man that travels on a “shoestring” budget. That is, he has figured out that the rails go pretty much everywhere, and most of them still have trains. Freight, mind you. The comfort level is below par, for anyone that thinks that the Orient Express was the way to go.
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