Monday,
December 15, 2008

Lazy Hazy

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Here are a few of my favorite online haunts:

REALTOR.ca
[This is the site I visit to fantasize about living in Toronto again, which is almost every single day during the winter]

Jonathan Cainer's Zodiac Forecasts
[This is where I visit in the morning, when I need a positive spin on things past, present and future.]

Living Local
[This is where I go to see what Canadians are up to, sometimes I even buy things from the businesses listed there.]

Environment Canada Weather
[This is the site I visit every morning, and before every road trip during the winter]

I am not quite sure what happened to today. It came and went without notice. I made bread this morning. I had a nice chat with Attila over lunch.

The house has warmed up quickly, as it was above freezing and raining all day today. Mist has forgiven and forgotten our short absence, bless her heart.

I rummaged through the freezer and retrieved a few bits of geriatric food for dinner. Actually, dinner was delicious. We had penne tossed with a wee bit of tomato sauce I found ferreted away at the back of the freezer. I also found some very old frozen organic sausage patties. These I microwaved for three minutes on high, drained the fat and then placed in a roasting pan. A little BBQ sauce on the patties and within 30 minutes we sat down to a delicious meal.

It rained all morning and all of the snow on the south side of the roof slid off, with an enormous crash when it hit the deck. Attila is out there removing it from the deck as I write. It is very heavy and cannot be left, as there will be more snow on the roof tomorrow.

We are experiencing high winds and snow squalls tonight, accumulations of up to 20 cm.

As soon as the weather clears Attila will take his snow shows and make his way into the back bush to chop our Christmas tree. We are a little late this year because we were away last weekend: well worth it.



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The camera batteries are dead, again!



By The Easy Chair
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon



Quote
"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed."
Lao-tzu
(604 BC - 531 BC)



Weather
Condition: Flurries at times heavy and local snow squalls
Temperature: -6.4°C
Pressure: 102.3 kPa rising
Visibility: 1.1 km
Humidity: 80 %
Wind Chill: -14
Dewpoint: -9.3°C
Wind: W 26 km/h gust 41 km/h
 

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Photography
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by Maggie Turner

Canadian Maggie Turner writes and publishes poetry, photography, and a personal journal online. Her work reflects the current way of life in Canada, embracing Canada's past, present, and future in a unique portrayal of everyday life. Maggie's voice is one of the many that actively depict the rich diversity of Canadian culture.

Photography: "a term which comes from the Greek words photos (light) and graphos (drawing). A photograph is made with a camera by exposing film to light in order to create a negative. The negative is then used in the darkroom to print a photograph (positive) onto light-sensitive paper.
Source: University of Arizona Glossary

Poetry: "a form of speech or writing that harmonizes the music of its language with its subject. To read a great poem is to bring out the perfect marriage of its sound and thought in a silent or voiced performance. At least from the time of Aristotle's Poetics, drama was conceived of as a species of poetry."
Source: Creative Studios

Journal: " "Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse, a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot album, a history, a travelogue..., a letter to oneself - it has some definable characteristics. It is a record, an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily daily.... Some (entries) will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the middle of the night.... Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself. Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony, false...." (Dorothy Lambert from Ken Macrorie's book, Writing to be Read )
A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about what you read... as well as what you did on any given day."
Source: Journal Writing

A Blog is an online journal created by server side software, often hosted by a commercial interest.

"The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[4] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging


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