My Way of Living [09/01/16] 

  • I'm an, er, Half Ironman! : The Camsur 70.3 Experience

    Editor's Note : This is coming in about two weeks late, but what the heck I got busy. Again. Anyway, enjoy the fruits of my forsaken lunch break. For most newbies to the sport, the annual exodus to Camarines Sur to compete in the only Ironman-branded triathlon competition in the country is much akin to a rite of passage. Get the s…

  • Words for summer rain

    It’s raining today, after many, many wonderful bright sunny days, the weather forecaster is finally correct. Misty, this is not, it’s a true summer rain, almost heavy winter rain, the kind that we get all of November through April. A few seasons ago I wrote in despair about how the Eskimo’s had so many words for snow, and we had o…

  • Our first year of being locals at the fair

    It’s a little bit of a odd feeling visiting the IPE Fair in Armstrong this year, since it’s the first time we are here as locals, and not as visitors, or the dreaded TOURISTS. There’s good reason the locals leave town during this most stressful and crowded week, the little town of just over 4000 people has a massive influx of visi…

  • Capturing the light

    Bootsie’s favourite after dinner treatie is being let outside in front yard with us as the sun goes softly down into the fir trees. He crouches under my truck, and watches the neighbourhood dogs waltz by tethered to designer leashes.With the summer slipping away from us the light goes to bed earlier, it moves in the sky faster. So…

  • My husband and I love birthdays, but we are also very realistic about what we are gifting to each other. Most of our gifts after 11 years of marriage include something sentimental, or needed, rather then just another acquisition.He loves crows, delights in seeing them, really. I used this photo of two young crows taken this summer…