With all of my planned activities cancelled due to COVID-19, back in March I decided to try a few new things that I could do at home. One of these was to outsmart our local wild rabbits by planting a small vegetable garden in raised Read More …
First thing this morning, I walked out our front door to check on our still-new container garden for vegetables. Each time I’ve tried to set up a vegetable garden in the past, the wild rabbits roaming our neighbourhood would munch their way right through it. Read More …
Back in mid-March, our provincial government ordered the closure of all but essential services because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Arenas, community centres, libraries, recreation and sports centres, swimming pools, and more all had to close from one day to the next – with no advance Read More …
It’s been an interesting few months, hasn’t it? Last December, I began seeing an increasing number of newspaper articles about a strange new illness in China. There seemed to be an outbreak of a novel – another word for new – type of pneumonia there, Read More …
Thanks so much for all of your encouragement, over on Instagram and Twitter and other social media, with my self-set challenge to sew eighty cloth masks to gift to my extended family. That may not sound like much of a challenge, but it really is, Read More …
Regular readers might have noticed that I’ve been posting much less frequently than usual to this blog, ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Not because I’ve been ill, luckily, nor any of my family members or other loved ones. No, my Read More …
