I saw this as I walked through my old neighbourhood on the way to work this morning. This particular block (Somerset Street between Booth and Rochester) seems to be plagued by catastrophic fires, often of a suspicious nature. This is where five members of the Thach family, including three children, were killed in a horrific […]

I blogged about my bus ride to the Lumiere Festival, but forgot to blog about the festival itself. So here it is, a few days late and a few words short – some of the things I saw at the Festival.

A belly dancer:

Another belly dancer:

A princess:

The refrigerator box fort:

Dancing girls with freaky nails:

Stroller […]

I booked today off as annual leave, only to find out later that the roofers were coming today.

They arrived at 7:30 and busied themselves with all kinds of things like booming the shingles off the flatbed. I busied myself with taking a few pictures, learning a little roofing jargon (like ‘booming the shingles […]

Yesterday I emailed my sister Kerry and suggested we take her kids to the Lantern Festival – they’d love it and Arrow could wear her princess dress. She said the kids were with their dad this weekend, but she and Mom would come with me. But then at the last minute Mom cancelled, Kerry had […]

The Parliament Hill Stray Cat Colony is my very favourite tourist attraction in Ottawa. I was up there yesterday at lunchtime, visiting the cats, raccoons, groundhogs, squirrels and horses.

This is Ike. He’s a 17-year-old horse who retired from the RCMP’s Musical Ride and now works as a tourist attraction on Parliament Hill. On […]

In case you were wondering, I haven’t disappeared entirely. I just spent the long weekend at my Mom’s cottage/house up near Wakefield with my sisters and brother and some of their assorted partners and children.

My mom and one of her exes own this place together and they take turns living in it. The old […]

One of the reasons I like walking to work at this time of year is so I can peek at all the lovely gardens along the way, and get some inspiration for my own garden.

A couple of months ago I posted pictures of my garden in the hopes that someone could idenitfy the strange things […]