It has been a bitter, somewhat brutal, cold week here in Ottawa with temperatures in the mid negative teens for much of the week, with numbingly cold wind chills. Today reached a high here of -11oC with a wind chill that made it feel like -17oC. Brrrr!!! indeed. More frigid temperatures through the weekend, and then back to more seasonable ( ( Read more... )

It has been a somewhat atypical week here in Ottawa for the winter, with a mix of relatively warm weather and rain coupled with what is now colder weather and snow, and about to become...very cold. The temperature hit the -8oC mark today, and is going down to around -17oC or so tonight with frigid temperatures in the forecast for the rest of the ( Read more... )

Since it is the new month of January (and it's barely a few days old)... As is my standard usage of my blog space at or near the beginning of the month, I present the listing of my December, 2024 reads.

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Books Read in December, 2024

Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler by Nigel Robinson

Doctor Who: Galaxy Four ( Read more... )

A new year. A time for reflection. A time for memories ( Read more... )

January 1st, 2025. A new month. The start of a new year. Also a time for contemplation, a time for New Year's resolutions and thoughts, and a time when we discard the destructive, old habits for healthy, new ones. Supposedly. Back when, a good friend of mine, Janet Wilson, suggested that I journal today the New Year's resolutions that she ( Read more... )

And so, here we are, once again. New Year's Eve.

I haven't planned to do much this New Year's Eve, other than to relax and have a relatively quiet evening, and I don't expect that to change. I'm in a heck of a lot of pain today due to my right shoulder and arm hurting a lot, the weather is cold and damp (around 2oC as I write this), and my foot ( Read more... )

It's the last day of 2024 ( Read more... )

Happy Winter Solstice ( Read more... )

It's been a bitterly cold day here in Ottawa, the weather having been mostly overcast today with a few flurries of snow and a touch of freezing rain. The temperature hit -3oC as the high today, but felt more like -8oC with the wind chill. My body aches and pains persist, the broken tooth still has no resolution in sight, and my left rear end and ( Read more... )

It's another cold day in the Ottawa valley with seasonal temperatures, a bit of a breeze outside and somewhat sunny skies with occasional periods of overcast skies. There was a snow storm last night that dropped some 19 centimetres of snow on Ottawa last night, that ended around 7 o'clock this morning. The temperature is going up to a high of -2< ( Read more... )