Wintry Weekend

After a brisk walk in the cold wind, Kira and I let the chickens out to explore. It’s their favourite thing – in all weather. The best part of spending time in the outdoors? Snuggling back inside.  Hope you’ve enjoyed a cozy winters’ weekend.

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Knitterly Olympics

Living between the venues for the 2010 Winter Games has turned out much better than anticipated. Sure, there’s little to no snow and driving was held up for 7 years in the making but…now that it’s here, might as well enjoy it right? We took our Daycare kids to 2 Olympic events — and they [...]

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A Coming of Age

  Their friend dies – and they’re all grown up. ;-D I got my first egg today!   I was cleaning the coop, freshening the water etc. and saw the egg just laying in the pine shavings. Inside their coop I bought specially for them! Such a relief – because they sleep in the rafters [...]

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RIP Prince Charles

Prince Charles was so named because he was a shy rooster that didn’t seem to know he was a rooster at all. He only crowed once, over the holidays, and he was very surprised when it happened! (seeing his reaction was comical!) Though he should have been in charge, given that he was the only rooster, [...]

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10 on Tuesday

10 Things I’m Looking forward to in 2010 1. Meeting my new cousin (mid-June) 2. Final season of LOST 3. Ravelympics — though I think it might be more of a commitment than I get 4. Being debt-free 5. Completing: The List 6. Baby chicks! 7. Alice in Wonderland 8. Traveling — not sure where [...]

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Look Ma!

An FO! Shocking isn’t it? If you saw the Ravelry input you’d know that this little number took 11 months! Oh my goodness. Despite how long I took, I’m really happy with this sweater. It’s cozy, it feels good, it hangs well and the button holes worked! What next for my knitting? Wellllll – if [...]

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Madness is spreading

Olympic madness that is. Case in point:The embarassing S.A.M. — Squamish Axe Man to those in the know — has reached new heights, or rather lows. Here he is in his Olypmic finery: Check out the detail though – the knit stitches visible in his ‘mittens’ – that did make me smile… I’m pretty sure [...]

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Socktoberfest

I’ve joined the Mystery Sock group at Ravelry. I am knitting like a fiend while watching Seasons 1&2 of Battlestar Galactica. I’m so glad I didn’t watch this live and don’t have to wait! It’s amazing to see local places showing up – Gaius Baltar’s beach house is not far from where we camp each [...]

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Last Weekend

Last weekend was the Brackendale Fall Fair. The weather was perfect – sunny and warm. Even at opening, the place was packed. So much to see and do. This young violinist was very talented (but I was country-musiced-out in about 20 seconds — ugh)   Over in the food tent (not sure what it was really [...]

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Back Home

Home from camping on Quadra Island. I realize that I have continued to neglect this blog. I have written so many entries in my mind…that I forget I haven’t actually published them. I wish life were a lot slower! I took a week and slowed down intentionally. You can’t beat camping for introspection. I’ve been [...]

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