Hello, goodbye
It snowed yesterday: 20 cm. I think we broke the record for the most snow ever on April 6th, which was previously held by 1958. Here are some of the…
A. Ottawa
The edible helium balloon!
I don’t have an actual bucket list, but if I did, inhaling helium would have been on it. I finally got my chance to do it a couple of weeks…
Favourite Field Trip
Last weekend we drove out to Smith Falls to visit the Parrot Partner bird sanctuary in their groovy new digs. Since our last visit, they’ve become a registered charity and…
Great Glebe Garage Sale – 2014 Edition
Here are some of the things we got and did at the Great Glebe Garage Sale yesterday: An authentic persian rug, 4×6, for $25 A pretty leash for Rosie for…
Someone bought my house
Living Room So I kind of got busy there for awhile and didn’t write much about what was going on. Among other things, we fixed up my house and put…
Gender Failure: Highly readable, highly recommended
I got an advance copy of Gender Failure, by Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon. It’s not quite available in the stores yet, but it’s coming soon and I urge…
Nothing that a whack on the head can’t fix
I’ve been crazy busy lately, at work and at home. The move is scheduled for February 1st, so I’ve been packing and decluttering and running stuff over to Value Village…
Sad chalk message on the sidewalk
Friday morning I was walking to work along Somerset Street. It was a drizzly morning, so this sidewalk chalk message was probably still fresh yet destined to disappear almost immediately.…
It’s complicated
Now that we’re married, GC and I are thinking about moving in together. Like actually formally officially living together. Getting rid of the duplicate toaster and bed and microwave and…
The Fountain of Youth contains….water?
GC and I marched in the Pride parade last weekend! First time for both of us. I was working there and GC volunteered to pitch in. It was a terrific…
GC has been violating the neighbours
GC has been violating the neighbours this week. Four-Dog Neighbour Two doors down from me is a woman with four dogs. For three evenings last week, two dogs barked incessantly…
The Little Wedding that Grew
GC’s brother Charlie, GC, me, and my sister Deb GC and I originally planned on having a very small civil ceremony, maybe one step up from eloping. But during our…
Goodbye, Robin
My dear friend, Watawa Life blogger Robin Kelsey, died on July 2, 2013 at the age of 64. Robin was a photographer, a writer, a biker, an introvert, a lover…
Fringe Review: Chesterfield
I won 2 tickets from Apt. 613 to see Chesterfield at Fringe Fest, along with a gift certificate for a ZaZaZa pizza! We haven’t eaten the pizza yet, but we…
Favourite weekend of the whole year
Long-time readers will know that the last weekend in May is my favourite weekend of the whole year, because the Great Glebe Garage Sale and the Ottawa Race Weekend both…
Scandals within scandals!
This has been a crazy week for news in Canada! Scandals within scandals! Between the scandal about the prime minister’s office covering up Conservative Senator Mike Duffy’s expense scandal, the…
Larry O’Brien’s ‘Book Lunch’
This was a present from GC. He took advantage of the special offer on Larry’s publisher’s website: SHIPPING FEE WAVED (sic) FOR THOSE WISHING TO PICK UP AT THE OTTAWA…
Wedding, penis, knitting and fine arts
I wrote down all my thoughts about my visit to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and it was a big fat mess of contradictions, so I will continue to think on it…