I was reading over the holidays about a Christmas tradition in Iceland and though we have packed away our decorations and memories for another year, I couldn’t help be fascinated and envious of Iceland’s idea. It is called Jolabokaflod, which means, to you and I, “Christmas book flood” or the […]
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Robin McCormick
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The annual Betty Kellar Memorial cribbage and 500 card party will be held this Saturday, Jan. 11, beginning at 1 p.m. The cost is $15 per person and includes supper. People can register right up until the day of the tournament. Call the Emo Legion at 482-2250 to register. Hours […]
Wednesday marks a whole new year and a whole new decade. We leave the teens behind and will begin a new year and new decade with a clean slate. Of course, we will drag along unfinished business from 2019, but a new year and new decade may enable us to […]
Like I say every year – we spend so much time, planning, cleaning, organizing, shopping, cooking and eating and Christmas is over in a blink of an eye. If we could just slow down the time. I hope that everyone enjoyed their holiday no matter what! Really until now the […]
For many of us who enjoy ice fishing there have been a bunch of great memories created on the ice over the Christmas holidays. While I was going through school, the two week Christmas break was always one of my favourite times of the year because it meant there would […]
My children’s Christmas art work is up, the creations from their early childhood. Christmas lights are up. Nat and Bing are singing their versions of seasonal favourites to me. The snow comes and goes. The pileated woodpeckers are providing their background percussion as I walk. A deer bounds over the […]
I am counting on a less busy week this week. Last week was jammed pack with lots of running from concerts, to hockey, meetings, shopping and every spare hour putting up Christmas lights. I was preparing for a house party on Saturday night. I finally finished them on Friday and […]
I have just come in from my wood shop. It has been a very busy place this past two months and I am struggling to finish the last project to go under the tree. One gift was delivered on Saturday evening and I hope the person who received the gift […]
For the past 15 years or so, a group of friends and I have been heading north in Sunset Country for the last week of the moose hunting season that closes annually on Dec. 15. Typically it’s cold and the hunting is tough but we always have a good time […]
Someone said to me the other day that she wasn’t creative and wished she was. I thought about that for a minute and then a few days later I heard Lynda Barry, an American cartoonist and educator, speak on CBC Radio about our creativity. We all have creativity within us, […]
One of the most common reasons as to why one doesn’t cook from scratch more than they currently do is because of how long it takes to prepare ingredients for the meal. Whether it involves slicing, dicing, measuring, or simply getting ingredients out of the fridge and pantry; let’s face […]
Well, silly me is still working on putting up my outdoor lights. It looks like I might have some cold fingers this week. I haven’t even started anything inside my house, other than a project that my boyfriend/partner and Marlee tackled on Sunday. I do have a deadline of Saturday […]
