It’s been a bad week or two. It seems that just about everything is out to get us. Our hosting service has had huge problems – we have been missing emails and losing access to the web site, so we bit the bullet and have been moving everything to a new service provider. Four websites […]
Anna has transitioned to working exclusively in the Floral department at our local Metro, where she is far happier than working on a cash register. For a while in Summer she would come home laden with flowers and practice making arrangements. To fill them out, she would collect flowers and any other interesting plant life […]
A summary of the past year, sort of a Christmas letter, but not quite.
Anna went to three half-day classes on floral arrangement, in Mississauga. Each week she brought home the fruits of her labour and Mrs. Powell and I tried to capture her work in photographs. Not particularly scientifically, as it turns out, so the colour rendering is probably not very true. Probably the best background was the […]
I’ve been messing around with the way different post formats show on the summary pages. This will be evident for posts that are short and don’t have a photo attached (like this one) or ones that consist of a single image. There were also a few cosmetic changes.
2016 was a busy year for improvement projects. We replaced the furnace and air-conditioner, the roof, the driveway, the garage doors, the front door handles and the toilet in our bathroom. The caulking was stripped out and replaced with impeccable silicone, and most of the outside was painted – the painters “forgot” two windows. I […]
