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Rona, as it used to was.

Not far from the friendly confines of Juniorvania, there used to be a Rona store. Careful and attentive readers may remember this store making a cameo appearance in a home improvement saga related to the making of shelves from last year. I think I went in to that […]

Bushed.

It’s been a busy couple of days of gardening, and now I’m bushed.

A Panorama of the New Rear Garden

Yes, I waited three days to post THAT photographic pun. Sue me.

For an idea of what the newly landscaped area looks like, check out the “Before” picture. Well, you could if I remembered […]

Ferris Bueller Had the Right Idea

Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but Spouse and I have taken a couple of days off from work.

A day off is a wonderful thing; if you’re anything like me, you have it in mind to accomplish so many things, but you also want to just revel in your chance to drive in the slow lane […]

This Space Occupied.

Actual reasons no writing got done yesterday:

schedule included one hour set aside to undertake “put up the birdfeeder” project; actual time elapsed to complete “put up the birdfeeder” project: four and a half hours, including two trips to three Canadian Tire stores in two different municipalities; the grass – it keeps growing, and I […]

Spiritual Advice from Personal Care Products

Live Clean, Sweet Pea!

On the edge of the sink in our bathroom stands a bottle of liquid hand soap.

“LIVE CLEAN,” announces the label. Appearing below the brand name, in slightly smaller type, are the words “Sweet Pea.” I choose to read the label – each and every time I use the bathroom […]

2009 Memorial Cup Champions: Turning the Page on 1988

2009 Memorial Cup Champions – Mickey Renaud's Jersey Front & Centre

It had no effect on the players, of course. It couldn’t have – most of the guys wearing Spitfire sweaters today weren’t even born when it happened, so how could it have any effect on them? Nonsense. It did, though, have an effect […]

Windsor Spitfires: Memorial Cup Champions!

This Goblet Will be taking a trip down the 401 to the Rose City

Congratulations to the Windsor Spitfires – and the City of Windsor – on the Spits’ first Memorial Cup victory. Windsor becomes the first team ever to win the Cup after going down 0-2 in the round robin portion of the […]

Go Spits Go! One More for the Memorial Cup

Go Spits Go, One More Time This Year!

I will be watching on a slight tape delay for much of the first part of the game – yard chores kept me a little bit later than I thought today – so don’t nobody call me on the phone and be giving me updates about […]

Popeye is Watching

Popeye has a habit of standing at the top of the hill behind the house, just over the property line so that he’s technically all four feet firmly on the neighbour’s property. Next door to us, there is a fairly large farm, and the edges of the fields – as you might imagine – get […]

The Goal

The Windsor Spitfires beat the QMJHL champion Drummondville Voltigeurs last night 3-2 in overtime (the link goes to my live blog of the game).

The OHL Champion Spitfires dropped their first two games of the Memorial Cup tournament (to Drummondville and Rimouski) before beating Western powerhouse Kelowna to force a tiebreaker on Thursday night vs. […]