by bZar | Aug 5, 2008 | Childhood Memories
For the past few days I have been driving my daughter’s boyfriend’s Honda Civic 5 speed. Why? Well, because Jen can’t drive stick. Her boyfriend is getting another car in a few days – one with an automatic transmission – so we’ve swapped cars until then.Learning...
by bZar | Aug 2, 2008 | Home and Family
It’s been raining so much over the last few weeks that we’ve been neglecting some chores around the Lair. When you have a long to-do list you start with the most pressing item first so today, since it’s a beautiful day, we are going to construct a second bin for our...
by bZar | Jul 31, 2008 | Life and Reflections
When I can’t sleep at night I watch infomercials. I think I’ve seen just about every ab-busting, steam-cleaning, crows feet-erasing, pimple-blasting, infra-red-roasting, hair-straightening, ice-crushing, scrap book-decorating, jewel-dazzling, trans-fat-eliminating,...
by bZar | Jul 25, 2008 | Childhood Memories
Ok, don’t laugh but this has been a childhood dream of mine – I want chickens. Somewhere deep inside this city-born gal lurks a farmer. Maybe it was all those summers I spent on my uncle’s farm mucking out horse stalls or sitting on my grandma’s porch shelling peas...
by bZar | Jul 24, 2008 | Environment
The emerald ash borer has done some major damage to trees here in southwestern Ontario. I’ve read that 20 million trees are infested and will be killed by this invasive, alien species. Just last week a crew from the township was in our area identifying trees to be...
