Deep, dark winter

I know, I know, it’s only the first week of January; we’ve hardly even scratched the surface of winter yet, but it certainly feels like it’s been going on a while. We spent New Year’s Eve in Ottawa with our friends Bruce and Youngja, where it snowed constantly. It was lovely, and beautifully seasonal, but…

Wendy gets to carry the Olympic Torch!

I mentioned several weeks ago about our friends Hank and Wendy who are working the Olympic Torch Relay for over the course of four months, traveling all across Canada driving the Eco trucks, part of the sponsorship by RBC of the relay. We just heard that Wendy is being honoured by her team mates by…

Crafty business

I finally made some headway in addressing a backlog of Ravelry stash updates, and downloaded about 4Gs of photos into Aperture over the last couple evenings. The photos are from all sorts of events and happenings, but I’ve been extraordinarily negligent lately of managing my Ravelry stuff, which is very unlike me. Have I mentioned…

Hostile intelligence agents are searching for YOU!

This past weekend we finally made the trip to Ottawa to visit our friends Bruce and Youngja (of my kimchi lesson fame), who have been living there for around two years and we had not yet visited, mainly because it was too difficult to find a dog sitter for Zeus for a weekend, and the…