A bit of back tracking to Friday night – we went to the neighborhood watch meeting at Tim and Tina’s house. The meeting was a big success, and we now have a phone tree for our area. The idea is that we all have the list of everyone’s numbers and what general area they live […]

I can’t say it’s clear blue skies this morning, but after a few days of rain the sun is finally coming up amidst the clouds. Paul and I are headed to a pot-licker party at Sharon’s house this afternoon to meet some new Canucks on the island. She’s great about stuff like that – making […]

News from Jo in Toronto – she said there’s major power outage in a large area of west Toronto since last night, and it’s -22 there. We would have fallen in that area. I can only imagine how cold our old house would be in -22 weather with no heat, as it was already cold […]

Sometimes I just want to make a self imposed time out and go sit in the corner – today especially, as we have a gray blanket over San Pedro. Swimming class was canceled and many of us are pulling out our hoodies, long pants and socks. Too much to get done to stay in the […]

The first ever Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards are up and running, and the nominations are already piling in. The top five nominations in each category will go to a public vote and then it’s fame! Glory! Overly long acceptance speeches! Seen a travel blog you think deserved an accolade? Above content from Lonely Planet […]

Major frustration with blogger today. I have to say, WordPress is rapidly gaining points in my book. But you, blogger, are just not user friendly enough sometimes. Question… has anyone ever successfully changed their blogger log in email address to a new one? From what I’ve found, people say you can get around this issue […]