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Crocheting my way through Covid …
Well you’ld think a year of Covid isolation would have led to endless drivel from your tireless correspondent … but honestly what’s to say? Complaining about a plague of locusts just doesn’t help. Oh, there is one thing to say: get vaccinated, even if you have had Covid. But the learning a new skill thing really has been a treat, and so while sparing you recipes despite this being a blog [there’s still time, ed.] here are some of my crochet creations. Happy Monkey:
And the banana can be peeled …
Mr. Squiggles: 
Dogs and Cats in hats: 
Catnip Mice: 
A Christmas Pickle, a tradition that was news to me!: 
A Dozen Easter Eggs in a Basket Hat: 
And my latest pride and joy, the vegetables, especially the avocado: 
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Baby Yoda crochet brag!
Well what’s a blog without recipes and crochet patterns! I incorporated a few patterns from the web and did some intense staring at images to create this little cutie-pie so a little bragging seems appropriate. And before assembly: With a … Continue reading
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Just when you think you might get back in the saddle …
life goes predictably haywire. And then unpredictably haywire. Skipping over the homefront, where things are now almost peachy, who could have predicted Covid-19? Well it turns out a fair number of virologists have been trying to get bat viruses more … Continue reading
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Two Years is quite the hiatus … but here we are!
Trip to the Bahamas I have tried to boil down to 17 minutes, and it can be found here:
The weddings took us to Vancouver and then Toronto and then Miramichi and then St. John’s. My favourite was the one in Miramichi.
Norman Doidge, neuroplasticity, lasers and me …
Good Morning. And a very Happy Thanksgiving to my American pals, who deserve a day of rest and merriment. But enough about you. One of the ostensible purposes of this blog has been to try to help anyone else out … Continue reading
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Well, that really took the wind out of my sails …
but life marches on. Pictures being worth a thousand words, here is (much of) my delightful family at the very happy occasion of our eldest offspring graduating from medical school, and becoming a surgeon, at one of the greatest Canadian … Continue reading
Sad to say, we lost our best Mouse …
It was quick, and very final. Lyme disease played a part, but something else must have been lurking. We had promised ourselves not to drag out another dog’s life, having done too much in the past, but this time there … Continue reading
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Maybe a flu shot would have been a good idea …
Well then, that was gnarly. Sorry for the hiatus. However, a break from commentary seems like it was a good idea. Truth really is often stranger than fiction, and I am still reeling from all those pundits who had no … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to me …
As my father-in-law once said, I never wanted to be 86 until I was 85. My brother was also succinct one year: think of the alternative … Feeling it was a good year, as one’s expectations sink with each passing … Continue reading
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Progressive? No thanks … or at least only if I’m at the helm …
The other day I had a somewhat depressing run in with our city councillor who mistook his election as a mandate when it was a strong rejection of the development mad woman whom he replaced. We discussed two recent neighbourhood … Continue reading
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