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Celebrating beavers with donuts

I’m happy – and surprised! – to have won three smiling beavers in the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards last night.

Check it out: Best Personal Blog! Third Best Activities Blog! Best Local Blog!

Many, many thanks to the people who nominated me* and to every single one of you who took the time to vote. Big […]

I’m home from Haliburton!

I arrived home late late late Saturday night to some upsetting but unbloggable news. Then the universe kind of stood on its head and spun around for a few hours before righting itself again. Sometimes you just have to have faith that the universe will unfold as it should, because it will. It always does. […]

Duncan’s got a drinking problem

Remember how Duncan likes to lie on the edge of the tub and watch me bathe? Well, the last couple of baths, he’s been dangling one paw in the water the whole time. And every now and then he dips his head down and laps up a whole bunch of steaming hot bath water like […]

A five-star blogging week

The Yarn Harlot mentioned me today! If you’re a knitter you already know who the Yarn Harlot is: she’s only the Online Goddess of the Knitting Universe, that’s who! And when she mentions your blog on her blog, your blog goes platinum for a day as gazillions of knitters pour in. So – a warm […]

Is my blog a virgin?

Is there any way to tell if anybody has ever read your blog?

Anyway. I quit smoking a year ago today. Yay for me. I’m genuinely happy I got free of smoking – the expense, the risk, the cloud, the stigma – but still, I kinda wish I could celebrate with a good smoke.

I never […]