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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Post Script from Elizabethtown

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

There are two green metal boxes in my attic. I am not sure, but I think there were once used for gun cartridges. They are Canadian military issue. They don’t hold anything deadly anymore. Just old love letters, none of mine.
It’s early, grey morning. I’ve made tea, and now it’s cooling on the counter. I [...]

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Roadtrip, Alberta and British Columbia, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

Colin and I travel a lot, but usually in fits and starts. The last long, proper holiday we took was to Egypt.
This time around Colin took me, along with my parents, on a tour of western Alberta and British Columbia, his homeland.
Below is a slideshow of the images of the first half of the trip. [...]

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Hiking at Weir Farm, Wilton

Monday, July 21, 2008

I went hiking at Weir farm National Historic Site recently with some friends from a hiking meetup.

The site includes old farm buildings and a huge acreage of gardens and forest.

We hiked around Weir Pond and into the woods.

it was early evening in the summer and the light was very pretty coming through the trees.

The buildings [...]

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Spider Web on Hilltop Drive

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

(Colin and I are away… Here’s some good things to keep you busy in the meanwhile)…
Look what spun a lovely spider’s web on our deck recently!

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A Post to the Futura

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Look what arrived in the mail recently! Purchased from Mr. Typewriter in Florissant, MO., I got six brand new ribbons for my Royal Futura 800.

You pop the top open here…

… pressing the Red Royal button (Thanks Portable Typewriter Forum!)

Of course, I spent about 20 minutes trying and failing to figure out how to get the [...]

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Dr. Who and the Roller Coaster

Friday, July 11, 2008

In my dream last night I was following Dr. Who (David Tennant) and some friends to an alternate universe.
Since it was a dream, it was alot like a Dr. Who episode, with strange creatures and great gaping caverns. We transported through reams of paper and The Doctor was his effervescent self.
My favorite part of the [...]

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A Summer Affair Review: Novel as Cop-Out

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Elin Hilderbrand’s A Summer Affair, is supposed to be a beach read. You know this because there is an image of two cute pairs of feet kissing in the sand on the book’s cover.
The fact that this layered, well-structured and sometimes thoughtless novel is supposed to be a beach read indicates a complication not only [...]

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Ma Vie en Vert

Saturday, July 5, 2008

With the window open, from my bed, the view is only grass.
It doesn’t matter if it is raining or sunny– from here I have my square of green framed in white. My life in grass.
In London, from the window of my office at Delaware Road — the first flat — my view was a damp [...]

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Dead to Me - Abandon Blog!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

My Lover, My Backhoe
There is something AWFUL about an abandoned blog on my Google Reader. I click and click and click on “hopeful curmudgeon” and it is always February 26, 2008. Hopeless is more like it! My own version of Groundhog Day!
I wonder what happens when people stop blogging? Did they:

Fall in a hole?
Eat [...]

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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Post Script from Elizabethtown

Roadtrip, Alberta and British Columbia, 2008

Hiking at Weir Farm, Wilton

Spider Web on Hilltop Drive

A Post to the Futura

Dr. Who and the Roller Coaster

A Summer Affair Review: Novel as Cop-Out

Ma Vie en Vert

Dead to Me - Abandon Blog!

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