To all my friends - Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!
I have been blessed by each and every one of you through the year.

 So, here it is, Boxing Day in Canada - with the sky still dumping white stuff all over a city definitely not prepared for it.  Every time I go outside, I whistle for the dog sled to get me to the corner!

We moved from up North to the Coast, and I admit that one of the main attractions of that difficult move was the idea that I would not have to ( Read more... )

We took our tree down today.

It is swiftly done, without the ceremony and pleasure of the event a few weeks ago. Then we had all the family in the room, carols actually were playing, and tea was being made. Ornaments were taken out of the boxes and exclaimed over: Do you remember? Wasn't that a lovely Christmas?

( Epiphany )

Here it is - a few days (I always lose count) before Christmas, and the first time I have posted in ages. It has been a difficult time, and writing here would have looking an awful lot like whining. I have been trying hard to curtail that habit!

( Christmas )