must be a new year
Nola is back on her here–and–there schedule, so it’s just me, the dog, the cat, and some old Harry Potter movies. The power went off today for a few hours. I called BC Hydro and was actually connected to a person. She said I should try cycling my main breaker to be sure it wasn’t [...]
tagged back to work, christmas, gabriola, the things we do
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so close, and yet so far
Seen all around Folklife Village: Santa Clause Is Coming
tagged damnyouautocorrect, gabriola
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the dog in the village
Turns out that the german shepard that’s been wandering up and down the Folklife boardwalk has an owner, and he is really shopping. I don’t know the owner’s name, but the dog is named Buster, and is friendly if not pushy. The owner drives a silver truck, is older and has a greying beard. Seems [...]
Gabriola election day 2011
Today was the long-anticipated election day on Gabriola. For Islands Trust reps, Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) rep and the school board. I voted around noon, as prelude to dropping a whack of cash at crafts fest out at the community centre and going for a dog walk at Drumbeg. Our friends R & A [...]
storm!
Such a storm as was! Yesterday was all set to be fairer than any day we’d had for a week or more, despite the forecast, which was great so far as the Remembrance ceremony down at the RCMP station, but just two hours later the wind was howling and gusting, spinning the pine treetops and [...]
