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Happy Hollow food
end of a dry spell stories
insured in Nova Scotia finally
my rating can't get an worse - it can only get better :)
sweet sweet panic and depression - so sweet it makes me smile
(Nov. 30)
a good to do list
completely unintelligible text messages from hippy
hope LOL
real people
a warm bed
cleaning
oatmeal for breakfast
fruit smoothies
jony called
he liked the book i recommended in our father/son book swap - really liked it!
jony called
at the end of the convo, he made me smile
(Nov. 29)
stretching and running
homemade soup from Shirley and from Shelley
a November so warm my apt. is almost too hot at night and no heat on yet
sleep
people laughing at my rubber boots
a beautiful calm sunny warm day on the water
mitchell's big grin when he hauled 24 lobster in two traps
sunrise over st. mary's bay
lights bobbing all around us in the dark
watching the men work with skill and experience
excitement and energy on the wharf for Dumping day
long chat with a dreamer and a doer
someone's new rope at Annandale
swimming Nov. 26 at Drysdale
breakfast with pearl at the ardmore
sleep
sharing a lacrosse game with him
walking and talking with jony
playing with rob's new scooter
playing with theo and will
eating at rob and shel's - rob's sandwiches and shel's suppers
and he got a job at the hill
getting a call from my son when he's stoked - he's going to mexico
homebrew and homegrown
comparing stouts
laughing with friends
end of the day, end of the week, a job well done
(Nov. 28)
"Twaddle is Twaddle."
Evenings round the fire in Bear River
(Nov. 21)
getting up close and personal with a basking shark
fried bambi with fried onions and home fries
being organized
1/2 a sub on my desk in the morning thanks to Subway's 99 cent deal
A day's work to do
(Nov. 18)
giddiness
great ideas (Photoging our MLA in an apron on the wharf)
grandfathers bearing turkey, toblerone, tomatoes, oranges, apples and lettuce
(Nov. 17)
"media whores"
reading
glimmers of hope
my brown "work" jacket
Nicholas Cage ( i donno why - it's a despise/ love kinda thing)
dreams of Hawaii
female surfers
(Nov. 14)
Rock bottom (Lord i hope this is rock bottom)
(Nov. 13)
my brown corduroy jacket
red wine until 4 a.m.
(Nov. 12)
afternoon naps
Two friends sharing memories - my presence the catalyst and reason for them to remember together
"Did I say please? I meant to." "I could hear it in your voice."
Darryl's Peanut butter burger
poppies by the hundreds adorning the monument
an old couple hand in hand laughing
Crowds of happy people at Point Pleasant
light through yellow leaves
three minutes of silence
calls to "meet me at the market"
sunny warm Remembrance Day
(Nov.11)
the hfx- drtmth ferry
a career (des petits desirs quotidiens et un grand projet pour se faire rever)
helping friends
hugs and kisses
tomato and bacon sandwiches at pearl's
wrestling with journalism ideas
walking to "work" (j-school) from Dartmouth with a crazy low November sun slanting through the clouds and highlighting leaves and other urban sights
finding and restarting my list of things that make me smile (Nov. 10, 2006)
wink
mary's sticky buns, chocolate oatcakes and steves coffee
misty drizzley warm spring days
beautiful waitresses
playing with toddlers
Theo's constant antics - "why is it so hard?"
gulliver's cove
kids playing in a warm safe backyard
the smell of grass and soil up close
a walk in the park with Jony
Nova Scotia
Saturday morning at the Hfx Farmer's market
feeling appreciated
Jony has his beginners
and he's doing the driving this weekend
heated remarks at a town hall meeting
(i recorded some of the most flavourful on my journal)
beautiful Bear River
(a misty river winding between two sets of hills, farms and fields cut out of hillsides leading to the village with steeples and rooves peaking out of the tree tops)
Easter Egg hunts
(both hiding the eggs and finding golf balls)
my new office
(ie. private room with two windows overlooking the harbour!!)
"keep on truckin'"
(Grammie's advice)
swimming in April
Shut Up and Kiss Me/ Carey
(Not owning a CD player sucks but I have some good cassettes:)
counting the days like a convict
flowers, furry pets and friends
(from the Ikea postcard - things to add to your home to make everyone feel better)
banana pudding
Andy Capp
and his cont'd insight into the vital essence of a hangover
meeting old friends unexpectedly
oatcakes
friends who not only know the words to 'Time to Get a Gun,'
but who also know to bark when I sing the line about the neighbours' dogs
PEI accents
(I think that is what I will miss the most about this place - so rich and so varied
not to mention expressions like "very best," "let'er pound," "slippy," and so many more)
Nova Scotia job openings
(in the town I was born in - hmmmm)
warm and sunny spring days
(lifts the spirits and give the soul some hope)
antibiotics
Jony's upraised arms as he clears the Aquaneige
handwritten mail
I received two letters and three postcards this week :)
the glow of my little lamp
(Jan gave me this and boy is it ever fantastic to be able to read for a while and just switch off the light without getting out of bed - some nights i used to just pull the covers over my head rather than get out of bed LOL)
three weeks of running
(ran 6.5 km this morning and am feeling my lungs and legs get strong - jony has joined me in training so we can do the Tulipfest 10 k together)
the geese are back and promising spring
(they greeted me as i stumbled outside to run on Monday morning
on their way south after an night in Alberton Harbour and again on my way home Tuesday night from work - a new crowd on their way to the harbour for a night of rest)
watching my son hit jumps in the terrain park
watching Jony's eyes sparkle as he tells a story or plans his next adventure
(listening to him talk is poetry - he has grown right through that awkward pretend shy adolescent stuff to confident, calm, entertaining, funny funny guy)
no one got hurt
driving a standard
the first croci of spring
(Henry called me over to see the purple blooms at his place today and the tips of daffodils and tulips peeking through - gives a fella hope - yeehaw))
trees covered in freezing rain shining in the moonlight and rattling in the breeze
anticipating a trip with Jony and his buddy Tom to ski at Crabbe and visit with Gregor and Jenny and Farley
running in shorts
(especially when an old man with a beer belly and bulbous nose asks if I'm alright :)
Netfile and 1200 hundred big ones baby
all done with a snap of the fingers and money in the bag
crawling back into a bed still warm
(courtesy of Anne, who says this is doubly delicious because of the guilty pleasure involved)
pork chops and applesauce
big heavy dumps of snow in March
(journal entry from March 10,2006)
old school friends
Coop, Hippy, and Colin and all the others
surviving a ski hill weekend
planning an old school ski hill party at Chateau All the Way
the anticipation builds...
my friends' kids
Theo and Will always leave me smiling and I ran into Norm's son Ben at Ski Wentworth the other day and I was overjoyed.
dancing at the Alehouse
snow that crunches on a bright cool refreshing walk to work
the hills, woods and brooks of the Wentworth Valley
cool skiing and hot hot tubs
a slow drive in an old truck on a sunny Saturday morning
long, leisurely, lively, wide-ranging, deep-delving discussions over coffee and grease
conquering in checkers
"Lady Nightingale and Lord Jonathan"
Denise sent along a fantastic list of things that make "you" a better person and happy too:
holding a newborn baby
giving someone flowers
making love outdoors
climbing a mountain
paddling a canoe
a beautiful smart charming creative son
(Happy Birthday Jony - check out his latest school marks)
Olympics on TV (I'm hooked - go Canada)
a neatly shovelled driveway
chocolate fondue
digging a snow fort for a three-year-old
(courtesy of Sheps, my good friend in FSJ B.C.)
a well made bed
maple syrup and blueberry pancakes
walking to to work with two warm boiled eggs in my pocket
singing the last verse of Mr Tambourine Man "with one hand waving free" (lyrics)
white horses on the beach at Kildare (journal entry from jan 27,2006)
knowing one poem by heart (I know a couple :)
an ample supply of kindling
sandwiches made on baguettes
rituals like making soup
maple syrup from your own trees
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