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Outdoor Winter Fun

This year, I love winter. Might as well. I’m here anyway. I’ve been skating and snowshoeing and walking outside. One evening at 6:45, we took an LED headlamp with us. With a low cloud cover and no moon glow to light the way, early evening looked more like midnight. The intense light from the tiny […]

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Canada Waits For Christmas – December 18th

Hi there! It’s been a couple of days. I got caught up in some activities, mainly cooking and eating, which kept me away from the Advent calendar of Canadian art and culture. Nice to be here again. Besides cooking and eating, I made a useful discovery. Last year, when I attempted to skate, I discovered […]

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Happy Canada Day Weekend!

Hello everybody! I hope you have a great weekend and if you’re Canadian, enjoy our long weekend. Let’s hope for sunshiney weather and a chance to play and relax. If you ever want to calculate my age, it’s easy! I was a Centennial baby so our great nation is always 100 years older than me. […]

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On the Lake

Today it’s 5 degrees Celsius with a wind that cuts right through you. Last time I drove by the little lake we canoe on, it was still covered with ice. Maybe the ice and snow have receded a bit since from the lake’s grassy banks, but that’s about it. Listen to me read this post: […]

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Tracks in the Snow

  When I walk by myself in the snow, I’m never walking alone. The other morning I went out for a walk in the fresh snow. My usual road was suddenly new. A variety of footprints indented the snow with their different shapes and depths. There were huge cloven hoof prints that showed where a […]

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