Look what I found at Super Chance for only $24! My very own Pentax Spotmatic 35 mm film camera. I needed a manual film camera for my photography class, so this is the baby that I will be wielding this semester. For those in Victoria who don’t know Super Chance, it’s in the basement mall [...]

Taken earlier today from Tower Point. Perfect weather. We saw the whale watching boats around 11. Gary and I were both home today. We dropped everything and raced to the park, arriving as the whales were coming around Haystock Islets. The same group of transient orcas Gary had seen before, with the addition of two [...]

That’s the name of a dog belonging to our landlady (JED for short).
Good things today:
Sunshine.
Walk with Sam.
Friends in class (and I thought I didn’t know anyone)
Visit from Mom next week.
School perks (Safari books online — for free!).
Homemade bagels (made by my hubby).
This song and video posted on My Fair Isle.
Don’t think about Tom Brady’s knee [...]

Finally, I finished my Ella Phint, an adorable toy designed by Ms. Knit fish. I didn’t have anything to make the eyes with, so she was waiting until I could pick up some black yarn or floss, which I did on Saturday. Eventually she’ll end up with one of the new babies out there.

Until [...]

A couple of weeks ago I finally sent out a little care package to two of my nieces. They had summer birthdays and it just took me forever to get these sent out. It’s not the doing of the thing, so much as the idea, that takes me so long to work out. Some pieces [...]

These are our new farm friends, showing off their good sides in the evening light. These are all this year’s babies. Aren’t they sweet? We’ve been visiting the gang up at our landlady’s farm, helping out a bit with the evening feeds. Unfortunately the sheep don’t really need attention in the evening, except for these [...]