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Tag: 2018

  • Merry Christmas

    This week I found a blog post that pretty much encapsulates my feelings about Christmas. Christmas is not just the Christian view, it’s not just a pile of presents. It’s a celebration, but a celebration of so many ideas that it’s hard to untangle them all. Certainly, it’s a time of year when everyone should […]

  • Christmas gathering at Bruce’s

    Bruce and Elaine hosted their annual Christmas get-together today. Here’s everyone who attended. Well, except for me. Update – Sorry Jack, when I was moving photos, I lost you. Now you’re found again. I also took another try at fixing the exposure on a picture of Scout, and I think this one is better.

  • Mary-Jo’s Christmas letter 2018

    This year I’m starting this early (for me).  The shopping is done (my mother would be proud), the outside lights are up and cookie making is scheduled but not started yet.  No decorations are up yet inside but the tree is scheduled for when cookie making happens in a week – Travis is coming to […]

  • Wild beasties of 2018

    It’s amazing the variety of animal and insect life that one runs into every day, once you get used to looking. Some of these were found on “photo trips”, like Bella, a downtown Oakville cat who likes strangers. Some show up and wait for you to go and get a camera, some are too impatient, […]

  • Hosting meltdown, New theme

    In October, the company which provided the hosting for our sites and email accounts lost service for almost a week. I doubt anyone noticed that the web sites were not available, but emails to us just plain disappeared, with no message back to the sender. When we started getting the same symptoms again in November, […]