Stories about the house and yard categorized under Home Life.
We have a pair of Sylvania walkie talkies we bought years ago as a means of talking between floors instead of yelling up and down the stairs. We used them for a week or two then they sat in a drawer. We finally get to put them to good use. Because Jeff cannot see completely…
Are we camping or are RVing? I really don’t feel like we are camping because we aren’t sleeping on the ground in a tent. And I don’t feel like we are RVing because it isn’t a motorhome. And travel-trailering just seems too cumbersome but since it’s a campground I guess I will go with camping. Or…
We picked up the Jayco White Hawk Travel Trailer from Lens RV in Brighton on a Friday. Their service technician took us through a walk-a-round and a walk-thru of the trailer before we hopped in and headed down the road. Here is a view Maggie and Glenn just before we left the lot. I’m not…
I don’t know exactly how I came across the website for Chef’s Plate but it was probably Facebook. If you haven’t heard of Chef’s Plate, in a nutshell it is a “food box”, you know like the monthly beauty boxes? Except in this case once a week (or less if you skip weeks) you get…
I made this for my husband in 2010 (and he still has it today) but it can be easily used for a woman pirate. First up, buy a pair of pleather pants from the second hand store in your size or bigger. The bigger you get the more material you have to work with. I say…
This summer we developed a fruit fly problem. What is surprising is that it has taken this long, since we have been composting for years. We just seemed to hit the right amount of ripe bananas and compost to ignite a war between us and them. When we noticed the first signs of the little…
The March break went quickly. Most of Jeff’s time was spent around home doing odd jobs, hanging a few hooks, re-attaching the gas tank to our twenty year old truck, and marking papers (I took a day off here and there). This weekend we drove to Presqu’ile Provincial Park to spread my mothers ashes. We…
When the in-laws come to visit over the holidays we usually ring in the New Year together. We start with an early supper out, followed by a drive through to the neighbouring town which has a light display set up behind the main drag of their downtown area. Every year we go and every year…