Category: Journal

At our house discussions about how to manage early retirement for Attila are ongoing. Of course, money is the main issue. Retirement will not be a cake walk for us, neither of us have a pension beyond what we will receive from the government after a lifetime of paying into their plan, it has been… Continue reading About Peter and Paul

I love Christmas. The older I get the more missing pieces there are in my world. Two of my brothers gone, a former partner gone, my Granny and Grandpa gone, and so many of my cherished friends gone. It is at Christmas that I most keenly miss these beloved people. This morning I was having… Continue reading Life is a Gift, Yours and Mine

The outdoor temperature will reach 10C today, not our usual fare for December. The little bit of snow on the ground, that has hung on for the last week, was almost all gone by 9:00 a.m. This morning Attila and I went for a stroll. We were enjoying the fresh air, the trees, the sky.… Continue reading Balmy

In November I collected all my fruit fly traps, dumped them, cleaned them, and stored them away. Last week I began to notice the odd fruit fly. Then I observed Ginger tracking them with his eyes across the living room. Then their number increased and they became annoying. The culprit for this infestation was the… Continue reading Not Quite Yet

I had thought that canning season was over. It wasn’t. We found some reasonably priced fresh cranberries from Quebec on our last shopping trip. I had plans for those cranberries. We also bought an expensive and small bag of organic oranges. I buy organic oranges when I mean to use the whole fruit. Following a… Continue reading Entertaining Ourselves