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Dizzying array of symptoms
My dear friends one does not know where the day will take you. Fatigue, and flashing lights of orange, explosions in my head, and fluorescent light feeling in my arms, dizzy and nausea . Snoozed thru the previous afternoon, "meditating." Thought it was getting...
Happily Ever Before
1/5/21 Happily Ever Before New Years Resolutions danced in my brain. I reviewed all the standard NYR’s: quit smoking, lose weight, get fit and meditate. I was stunned, amazed and astonished that I had accomplished ALL of them all. Let me hasten to add this is years in...
Soup !
I made soup today. I know, I know, what is so special about that my long lost readers ask. Its in the story. Fasten your seatbelts as we wander off into the tale. I did not make a turkey dinner for Christmas, I was lovingly invited to a couple's home with whom I am...
The Unbeatable Nancy Brown
April 25th, 2018 I knew this day would arrive. It did. Quietly without fanfare just like my friend. An email from Nancy’s husband slipped into the inbox, the title was “no more suffering.” I knew then that “The Unbeatable Nancy Brown.” had left her earth body and had...
Landed in the mouth of the St Laurnce
April 13th, 2018 Spurred on by fan mail recived this morning, one but not only faithful fan wrote to tell me “your blog funnier and sharper, more clever Linda...not so grammatically correct but far more 'unexpected' ..yes that is it ..unexpected haha ..these good...
March 21, 2018 Done like dinner
March 21, 2018 Blogging is done. Done like dinner, the blogging course is gone, ding dong. I of course did not fit into any mold, and broke it. I have to admit I did not do well at all. First of all, there was technology, it makes me feel stupid. Really block-headed,...
March 19th, 2018 Closing of One Door
Weighing the options, going back or going forward. Who knows where me and the golden will land. Stay tuned.
What to do and how to get there
There are a few basic rules to be a “flaneur” and that is “indulge in serendipity, take advantage of what is offered, and keep on moving on.”
“Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in.”
Blog #4 Health and Well-being going into Retirement. March 05, 2018 My dear and gentle classmates, I am taking advantage. What you cry??? I am frequently asked just WHO my target audience is. I too, would like the answer to that burning question. These rants of...
Mastery of Life
My recent back story of which some of you are familiar with was: sell the house, move and take creative writing courses. How hard could it be? There were a large indefinite quantity of details in that plan. I am please to announce that what I started out to do, I am...
Divesting & Downsizing
Onward we go. Next? Words of wisdom, and when have they ever not been? This “getting ready to retire” component of my blog, is dedicated to and for my younger classmates the age bracket of my nephew mentioned in the last blog post, and is about what to do with all the...
February 09, 2018 Ankle deep
Long time readers know of my quest for sleep. Another quirky quest, tho inadvertent, is time travel. This good morning, all would collide, giving yet again, more ammunition for another diatribe. In another twist in my time space continuous.
February 06, 2018 Love Thy Neighbor
Love your neighbors. Sometimes, this is vexing, a real problem, but that was what I was taught. This core value was put the test this morning, over a very first world problem. The issue? Parking, a real first world problem.
February 04, 2018 trying to get a break
We solder on thru, renos of all sorts.
January 30th, 2018
After the high, the fall and we are, in many ways doing just that.
1/26/18 observation on the public transit
Off we went into the night.
the #105 a new adventure
OFF we went to school again, left earlier and watched as FOUR empty buses blew past, but not in as cold weather as the night before. Lesson learned jumped onto the boat that landed at the bus stop and jammed my way in. However while waiting met a lady who worked as a...
New ! Start !
After, many miles, and many friends love and support, we are living the dream. I signed up for creative writing and blogging course at my alma mater in Montreal. Leaving behind the bed and breakfast in the dust. (for others to clean!) the mantra for 2018 is onto fame...
November 27, 2018
November 27, 2017 Thusly an old time guest, a journeyman with curly hair, discourse and bigheartedness arrived. No need for the standard operating procedures. “you will be flying at an altitude of 5000 feet. The bathrooms are located on the first and second floors,...
November 21, 2017 Lady Luck
November 21, 2017 There is a difficulty with conceptualizations, the turns in life, the forks in the road, the time to turn left, right or just plain and simple forwarding into the breech. What pray tell my dear and gentle readers ask is she on about now. Read on!...
November 19, 2017
November 19th, 2017 I was trying to nap. A proper catnap. A little sleep, in the afternoon. Took a bath, got in my new pajamas, blue fleece with polka dots. My only flannel nightgown thin and torn. Earlier in the day, had thought about my own household linens going...
November 15th, 2017 Loyalty and tires
My running time all goes in one direction, spent mostly winging, thru the day, thru events, chores, weather.
November 11, 2017
The Beluga whaling sounding exhaust fan for bathroom, was taken out by my guy, while at book club. left the fan on the kitchen table, thus by phone my day was shaped, and was given my marching orders to purchase
Time was spent rearranging cutlery, cleaning out the kitchen,found 289 mugs. Boxes of them, inherited, generational and all getting larger over the ages.
November 05, 2017 Youth and Inexperince
“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
November 04, 2017
It was the period of time, a day of loosing of long decided places. The annual wipe off!
November 02, 2017
One of the trends of late like 5,000 years, I have not followed is yogo, due to my instability. read on!
November 01, 2017
“Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.” – John Glenn
October 31, 2017 Carpe Diem
We are on the condiment trail!! My readers peer anxiously at the screen “what pray tell it that?” Read ON!
October 30, 2017 19 bottles of mustard
several almost full bottles, of all the same kind of basic family style yellow mustard. Containerfuls of it, filling valuable real estate in the fridge, like a whole shelf full.
October 25th, 2017 Two months to go
October 25, 2017 Only two more months to the big day. The old man squeshing down the chimney, if you have one, mine is stuffed with insulation to hold in the heat, but I digress. I was in the pharmacy to mail a letter, and lo and behold there were Advent Calender's,...
Oct 24, 2017 Seize the day !
the hurried I go, the be-hinder I get. The readers of this diatribe peer at the screen, now what is she up to?
October 22, 2017 Old friends
If you can recall in all my ramblings and rantings from the summer past. I had two, not one, trees taken down and there were still five, count em one two three four FIVE green bags filled with desiccated leaves.
October 14, 2017 plunging ahead
Stories around the table were females of a certain age, unwanted mustaches, and how fast it grew, the age when you can stop the colouring of the rest, and shaving.
October 05, 2017 the beat goes on
We reflect on in today’s diatribe, the list of life, full, chock o block, and inexorable. Drum roll !! I am pleased to announce, every pen in the house is in one place.
Oct 01, 2017 Miles to go
the best service ever at a store, complete with the salesman picture of his dog. I think I should have gone with his recommendation and did not.
September 28th, 2017 On it goes, more slowly
Sept 28th, 2017 What normally would take a day or two has stretched out into umpteen. The laundry list is shrinking its girth, taking an inordinate amount of time. Making the hurry of the month, inverse. I request and demand an enumeration. No there has not been an...
Sept 24 2017
September 24, 2017 Life rears its head, jinxed, unlucky, jinxed. The washer, won’t stop watering, and so it goes. Full up as some Germans, a father daughter combo from Bavaria completed the house. I called the Flirty mans son, and hopefully am on the list for an...
Sept 23, 2017 Thus the fall begins
The holidaymakers have gathered up their leisure time, and gone home. This however does not mean we are at the sitting around eating bonbons stage just yet. we hauled out the lawnmower and broke it
Sept 19th, 2017 Luck and all that
ON TO GLORY. Boot camp AGAIN. Made it thru and watched the puppy class also in the park while doing lateral leg lifts, at the same time.
Sept 11. 2017 Be prepared.
September 11, 2017 This is a date that stands out. One can recall where one was, what you were doing for moi, most of the day. A commonplace day, the sun was shinning, bright in the atmosphere, until the planes slammed into the buildings. I believed that we were about...
Sept 09, 2017 Extra ordinary days
I received and most grateful for a stunning number of guests that have come thru the doors, but there has been of late a precipitous drop in both guests and temptertures./
Sept 07, 2017 Hurry like a hurricane
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Zen Proverb My cousin, my aunt, her family are in the path of the hurricane, bearing down on Floridia. Your thoughts and prayers for their safe deliverance are requested.
Sept 05, 2017 Unplugged and all that
While reading, washing and chatting, and frantically I might add. I call the succeeding generation of repair guys, mom is upcountry for the concert.
Sept 04, 2017
September 04, 2017 Head down, plowing thru. Yes indeed. Here we are three months away from the finish.We feel like we have not set about starting. We don’t even know quite what we were supposed to do, the gun fired late but fired it was. The sands of time in that hour...
August 31,2017 Working hard at it
I am now officially incoherent in both official languages, details escape, mishaps ensued.
August 22, 2017 Guests and others
August 22, 2107 The herding of mercury, proceeded. The planet of communications, and a partial eclipse of the sun, continuing on their mirthful way. I had received another endorsement from another potential guest, of the ‘reviews are so good sort.” I have had ancient...
August 21, 2017
I made certain, that they were aware of the parking restrictions and check out, one in the same at 10 am, while they were checking in as ‘something told me.”
August 20, 2017 Coffee and clouds
August 20, 2017 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. No toilet flushed, no person vertical making their way down to the french toast that is awaiting. Why cry my dear and gentle readers. Sunday morning, on a dreary day. The usual up and at it time, with not...
August 19, 2017 Honking is a splendid thing
Apple cake, french toast, banana bread, fruit salad, and as I had Quebecois here, baked beans baked in maple syrup. Which they amazingly enough did not partake of.
August 18, 2017
August 18th, 2017 We are slipping into cooler, a hurricane is hurrying up the coast. Its not like in the southern Untied States. We will get tepid participation of rain and lashing winds too, (or is it the other way round?) higher tides. The water is warmer, a bigger...
Star date: August 17, 2017
star date 070717 but I know it is 08/17/17 You may have felt the absence on the airways of late. Wondering my dear and gentle readers what the heck has been going on. Well a summer cold, blocked out a date or two on the calendar, went down. Me and the hound. We were...
August 13, 2017
A trifecta of young ladies who, studying things like pharmacy and nursing, don’t want breakfast, they went out, thus that machine is on and churning, very early in the day.
August 08, 2017 Make haste while the sun shines
First place I’ve felt sad to leave in many years, hoping for a return. Loads of love from us. xOXOxoxo
August 08, 2017
August 07, 2017 IT RAINED! Just enough, thru the dark. Water bombers, which were not bombing water, but RED flame retardant, went back up north, Home and hope restored. We have been assured the flames extinguished because of the rain. The plants, trees and grass have...
August 06, 2017 Trying is an operative word
August 06, 2017 Cleanup was done, guests departed after informing moi, that the senescent boys club across the street, partied until the wee hours of the night. I detected not one thing, sleeping thru to start the days endeavors at 5:30. More have come inn. What...
August 05, 2017 Heating up the house
The humidex is something to behold, as the temperatures climb with the sun, day-after-day, regular as clock work. We heat the house, baking.
August 02, 2017 Pattering along at full speed.
August 02, 2017 We are sliding into a long weekend, in most provinces in this fair land. Being an exception to any rule, Newfoundland has a holiday that is weather dependent. In this Presbyterian province, we here assured that fun and frivolity will be pursued...
July 31, 2017 the next set of crazy
July 31, 2017 We are just a going. A maritime expression, I have to admit I have not heard in a while, but it fits and as they say as the shoe fits etc. The weather is wonderful, the lack of water has made it so that we don’t have to mow the lawn as it is a lovely...
July 29th, 2017 tipping point
July 29, 2017 The tipping point, in more ways than one. Over the edge of the year, the week and the month, and the list of life. Checked off the list are light-bulbs. I purchased in my haste, a box that I soon found out were “vanity globes” suitable for around mirrors...
July 21, 2017 going to work
There is The grocery store saw my presence twice, a case of apple juice now enough bread in the fridge that I cannot get the door closed.
July 19, 2017 Carpe Diem
Most of the merry month of May list for the garden, yet untouched. Its a jungle out there.
July 17th, 2017 magic and coincidences
Received a five star review, on a reservation system and Google!
July 13, 2017
July 13th, 2017 The archetypal breakfast of French Toast, and all the accouterments, including homemade banana bread, (currently in the oven) for most of the guests this morning is set for, seven a.m. It is a very groovy thing I can make all of it with my eyes firmly...
July 10, 2017 Flying by
July 10th, 2017 What has been going on inn this the neck of the woods? I am here to report that . Tempus fugus, still I don’t seem to get much accomplished, or maybe I do. The one consistent thing is that time flies as per usual standard policy of the bed and...
June 25, 2017 an ordinary day
A soft start to the summer season. Traveled into having an “H“ night.
June 24, 2017
Not only because the patron saint is celebrated in my native province. It is also the day, 12 !!! years ago, I went to fetch (here girl!) the divine Miss Lucy Patricia.
June 23, 2017 Miss Lucy P
June 23, 2017 Miss LP continues to astound and amaze. 13 years old in May, and despite dire predictions still here, still going. (like her human mother, I admit) All days regardless of the weather, and we have moved into sunny and warm now, have several walks in them....
June 22, 2017 Normal again
Not a high alert anywhere. Reverting to regular. The grass is green and we are into month of May list of life.
June 21, 2017 A sliver of a day
Things on the list of life were accomplished,
June 20, 2017 Following the flood
Decorating ! Last year’s fiasco well behind me, went forward into the next scheme to renovate, or decorate.
June 13th, 2017 Decorating policies
June 13th, 2017 My decorating policy continues. I have to have a disaster to be able to redecorate, this has held true for 17 years as of June the first. I paid the insurance premium and as luck would have it, the tank broke on the third floor. It was 27 years old....
June 03, 2017 Tides and time
June 03, 2017 I moved in here 17 years ago the first of the month. Time flies as I am always raving about. Here we are. Celebrations now are low key affairs now. I climbed to have a bath in the second floor bathroom, before the guest arrived. I stepped on a little...
May 29th, 2017 Almost gone
We did I have to admit have a full house over the weekend and it was a shock to the system, I don’t know how I do it to be frank
May 21, 2017 To begin again
May 21, 2017 Thus we set about again, soon to be 17 years June the first, on the job of self employ. Another pile of plenty on the table. French toast on the grill, banana bread, fruit salad, beans in maple syrup on the table. Showers on, people stirring (I use a hand...
May 19th, 2017 time travelling again
May19th, 2017 OMg/ess, I got out of bed thinking it was Saturday, ready to do Saturday, just discovered it was Friday. Now have to do Friday. There I was in bed, thinking of all the things I put in the list of lineup for Monday. THEN I and now discovered that I can...
May 02, 2017 Spring excavations.
May 02, 2017 UP we are, and shall be it seems, as the shrill sound of the telephone aroused out of sleep. (I could learn to hate that machine, without difficulty.) This was a call requesting a cheaper place to stay for a week. This after I told him my discounted...
May 01, 2017 Carbon taxation, but not necessarily taxation
May 01, 2017 The calendar has kicked over to a new month, time travelling at its best. New, fresh, month, the fifth in the line up for the year. Astonishing. The day started with a phone call to wake me up, along with the recent phone calls in the middle of the nights...
April 30, 2017 1800 strong
April 30, 2017 It was discovered the big little city was jumping up and down. All manner of citizenry attending hockey tournaments, volleyball, literary conventions, body building was 1800 strong, who knew? Inadvertently, had a repleted house. First for the season and...
April 29, 2017 Saving money we don’t got
OMG more excitement, saving money on food I might not need.
April 21, 2017 First run, home run
the first of the season, managing to go 5 k in 50 minutes, the others did it in 34, but they are young and wrinkle free.
April 19th, 2017 Spring is in the air
temperature increases have and thus vanquished the snow, in an age old story.
April 12, 2017
April 17th, 2017 It is challenging to believe what year it is, let alone, the midway point of the fourth month of the same year. The quiescence, of past months, has a way of making time traveling an all comprehensive event. Months fly by, and here we are. We settled...
April 11. 2017
April 11, 2017 “Where have you been?” cry my fast and firm readers. A frequent refrain of late I do admit. I have been climbing one mountain after another, one foot and all that. With that, the list of life, winter edition, is just about at a standstill. Not that I...
March 23. 2017 Cake, chips and boot camp
We were to have a blizzard, provisions needed, calories to consume.
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017 I was feeling up the challenge. This is a special one. Every woman knows of what I speak. I ventured to shop for ladies undergarments. I actually wrote down, the formula, numbers and sizes and whatnot, for a daily wear piece of apparel. Bonus ! I wrote...
March 20, 2017 tax, time and thrillers.
March 20, 2017 We have held the fort! We have made it thru to the lengthening days! The prescription, to bed down, book in hand and naps, many many naps. OFF to the library with a new authors name, we went! Back to the abode again, dejected dog in tow. She is not...
March 0HHH 5, 2017
“Lets start at the very beginning a very good place to start.” as Maria Von Trapp once sang.
March 03, 2017 Not for the squeemish
March 4, 2016 I have to admit February as a month was not for the squeamish, not dandy at all. If you graded it as a winter month it might be better. We roller coastered around, heading down to -29, then just as wildly, back up to plus 8, not just once, but several...
Feb 17, 2017 Let it snow, let it snow etc
2/17/17 Here we are in the Wednesday of the winter. The halfway point, the middle, and indeed as good Canadians, we are still shoveling to make it to the summit of snow. I think we can stop. We won. Yes indeed, we did. We came first for the win. A triple play, we had...
March 25th, 2015 'Tis the season, to lie down. I do this in more ways than one. My little five room Bed and Breakfast, in the heart of the big little city, are in the quiescent stage of the year, once more. Tourism and tourists from all over the globe, recovered from...
Feb 12, 2016 Skating and sliding
February 12, 2016 It is some kind of special to live in the Maritimes, the only place in the world where you will get a winters worth of weather in one weekend. Yesterday, we went sliding and skating in -21 C when it warmed up to -11. Lots of sun and no wind made that...
January 23, 2017 Sleeping around.
Jan 23, 2017. I slept around. My readers draw near to the screen in anticipation of denials of my wild weekend away. Wild it was. Details below, read on. Let me remind you, no good deed goes unpunished. Where to start? Ending up, in between, several times on the...
January 17, 2017 Slippery Elm
This is completely my fault. Confused and disoriented these days, in a quest for sleep, crashing around dispensing glucosamine and fish tablets to Lucy while NOT thinking, or we would not have been in this mess. The carpets did need cleaning, now making the blinds...
January 15, 2017 Its the dogs life
January 15th, 2016 One may ask, if it wanders thru one thoughts, just what a bed and breakfast proprietor does, on the “off” times. (It does not seem to this one, that there is any, but I digress.) WHY ??? Cry the loyal readers WHY! My sentiments exactly. The...
January 13, 2017 what goes up etc
Inspired by true events! What goes HEAVENWARD must go descend.
January 12, 2017 We ride again
January 12, 2016 We ride once again. I recognize that both of my deep and delicious readers, of a long time standing just may have been speculating, just where on globe, I have been or was, absent from this folio. The answer is and was, unsophisticated, uncomplicated...
Jan 05, 2017 Hurrah A great review!
Retrovaille a noun "the joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation, a rediscovery. Hurrah, starting off the New Year, with a great review, on Facebook. Without further adieu, here it is. "My first visit to A Downtown Bed and Breakfast was...
Dec 29, 2016 The s words and more
December 29th, 2016 It took some time in fact a good chunk of the day and using a few choice s words. The letter s kept sounding off and up, sweating, skidding, swearing and salting and a few more. Read on! Keeping you all abreast of events here at the bed and...
Dec 28th, 2016 Lighting the way
Substance and matter. it seems, keeps growing. Added to and aided by my mother
Dec 25th, 2016 Happy and Merry
Merry Day and Happy times, possibly.
Dec 12, 2016 The toy give away
Hair looks fine, 3.5 inches OFF. Looked better before wearing hat which because of the ice and snow, as we are in a red weather alert situation here, I had to put on my newly quaffed hair. This was after, after what, is the question. Taking immigrant neighbor, to...
Nov 29th, 2016
That noise you heard? Before in the middle of the day? That was, subsequent to my brain exploding.
No 28th, 2016 Santa and the Mattress
November 28th, 2016 The week that was, is once again. I lead in with how much I did not accomplish last week. A familiar theme but this time the whole week went, a great deal of effort and the result is still selfsame, with identical things on the list of life. What !...
Nov 22, 2016
The sidereal day was spent, pinging, ponging, pushing, much pushing, oh my, the bouncing and blasting. After a great deal of tooing and froing, nothing was accomplished. Phone calls had been made, consultations held, letters written, emails in quizzical, querulous, grumbling in nature sent.
Nov 21, 2016 the mattress tale continued
The mattress tail continues, calls to the public works went unheeded, the mattress now wet and vomiting its contents on to the street
November 18th, 2016 The Mattress trail
November 18th, 2016 Right beside the breaking news video of Prince Harry’s new girlfriend was the best horroscope ever and it read: “CANCER (June 22 - July 23): Words are power and if you use them in the right way over the next few days there is almost nothing you...
Nov 15th, 2016
November 15, 2016 We’re back! What? Vociferate my dear and gentle readers. Fewest, if not all of you, did not know, that we stuffed the dog in the back of La Tomato. OFF with all of the personal property needed and more, for three days, North. Departed. Absent....
November 04-5, 2016 Settling in for the long winter includes much anticipated things like doing nothing, consumption of bon bons, reading in front of the fireplace, not withstanding, the fireplace has been stuffed with insulation to save heating costs. We did manage...
November 03, 2016
November 03, 2016 Just as you think you are going into one direction, with thoughts of “okay here we go”, another comes straight back at you. Yes indeed, today we are having temperatures of 10 and fog. Tulip planting time. The boxes sitting for a while now on the...
November 02, 2016
November 02, 2016 I do know and acknowledge that time flies, and with it, MOI. Some of my fans called, wrote, or both demanding to know just where the diatribe has been these few weeks. Where the question was had it gone, and thus moi and my faithful companion of...
Oct 16, 2016
October 16th, 2016 Guests of all shapes and sizes came thru the door. I went thru all motions necessary for life, with the lack of sleep to go with it of a very busy tourism summer. You all my dear and gentle readers have come along for the long and wrinkly ride,...
Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 Here is, the latest or the most remembered events of late. The basic cognitive processes have to be focused on, to be retained, I am flying to high. The problem with the recollection & reminiscences of the recent events is two fold. The first is...
Sept 09, 2016
I was behind before I got up. Slow wading thru guests. Full minus one room. Way back last week, I decided to go run, and did. Apparently ran 6 k. I did not mean too. But the crowd, the boot campers went in the longer direction, I went in the other to meet them. Along...
Oct 03, 2016
I have a mattress that is kaput, somehow rousted myself to go and went, which is a surprise, to me mostly but it had to be done. Arriving at one of those dubious places that have flags, signs and concrete floors, just off the highway. This one is just beside the...
Sept 30, 2016
The yellow brick walk it is not. Not even close, in fact it is gray, too wide, disproportional and blanketing every bit of grass that grew in but only in that corner. the back yard.. Lucy has demonstrated that is a good scratching pad and loofah. Lying on it and...
Sept 28th, 2016
The clang was impressive for its velocity. The summer of heat, sun, tourism and tourists concluded. Polar but not quite snowing, necessitating movement of the wrist to turn on the heating of the house. No chopping of wood for this old girl. Please note the debate as...
Sept 25th, 2016
You may think that the conclusion is near, but I know it is. Why ! cry my dear and gentle readers. A subject that has been overlooked, all these years of writing the diatribe, came to light this morning. I have to admit I have been doing yearly, every year since the...
Sept 23, 2016
I have had several days without guests and thought it might be a good time to do so, sleep. I was up at five. I did figure out, while I could not sleep, that maybe the problem with the email, was one thing. Of course it turned out to be another. It took several phone...
Sept 22, 2016
In my defense, I was left unsupervised, tired beyond belief, and esurient, a lethal combination, in a grocery store of all places. All the nutritional pundits proclaim one is not to that. I have to say the Boston cream filled minis were outstanding, the chocolate topping, melted like soup, the cream inside almost cooked
Sept 19th, 2016
We are up and we are at it, at the ready and waiting. Coffee, the starter of life, extraordinary it is, hot or can be cold (for some in more temperate climes assure Moi that one can and do get theirs out of a can.) is ready. the question is what will the day bring. Stay tuned.I was an intrepid adventurer in my day, the first step off my high horse was a huge, but have learned, thru the school of hard knocks, along the way to tuck and roll.
Sept 17th, 2016
September 17th, 2016 RETRACTILE (N) the joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation : rediscovery. Its been a spell, yes it has. In several ways, not only has the diatribe disappeared off the radar. The lead is and with, a rediscovery. My dear and...
Sept 12, 2016
Like a boxer in the ring, the reservation that will not cancel, popped up again.
Sept 11, 2016
Sept 11, 2016 It is chromatic on the other side. It is truth, as there are two sides to the story. This particular story is beside the side walk to the house. What, is she rambling on about now? My patient and gentle readers bespeak. While on my sojourn from the...
Sept 06, 2016
September 06, 2016 Well I could not do it. I could not get myself to mow the lawn. I hung out the laundry and others chores necessary to run a bed and breakfast, but lawn mowing was beyond the pale. Muttering to myself, “other people get days off,” and off I was. I...
Sept 04, 2016
September 04, 2016 Here we are gliding to a stop, perhaps, not AT ALL confident, that the short but sweet tourism season door is clanking shut. Spent umpteen hours cleaning, all well documented here in the diatribe. Recently chasing reservations made thru sites, so as...
August 27, 2016
HERE WE GO, on any number of fronts,domains of such inn consequence one could just get on and not notice.
“I don’t get it,’ Caroline said, bemused. ‘She’s the only one with wings. Why is that?’
There were so many questions in life. You couldn’t ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It’s so she can fly,’ I said. Then I started to run.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
August 25th, 2016
The sun was up and it was sweltering. Ahead of mowing, watering, in direct disagreement with the directions, as I had a useless sprinkler. Why was that ? Inquiring minds want to know? It needed and would later in the dazy to do quick trip to get a new end to the hose, I having purchased and had installed a new male when it needed a female ( as so often is the case) so as to be able to use the new to me lawn sprinkler
August 24, 2016
we tackled the first T day of the week, head on. All manner of things accomplished. We went forward with gusto, with all sorts of men. Plumbers, posties, and electrics, and sales, and handy so innumerable it is impossible to count.
August 23, 2016
BUT in my defense, it was extremely busy day yesterday. ,It was a picture of the house, that set the tone for the day. its perspective? From the back yard, of the patios that do not exist anymore, nor does the furniture, come to think of it
August 20th, 2016
August 20, 2016 The bread pudding was prepared the night before. It went in the oven, sneding smells up the stairs to wake the guests, my secret? Bake it in the morning. The coffee was made, tea at the ready for the two Americans sailing the world. Their boat parked...
August 19, 2016
Thus this morning, I though that my repair guy, was hard at it early. In fact so early is was more or less dark. Or someone was stealing valuable plastic chairs out of the garage, where they have been housed for the duration of the patio reconstruction. No on both counts. I have gremlins, or ghosts. I am leaning towards, Dad visiting actually.
August 18th, 2016
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve
August 17th, 2016
The patio is gone, long live the sod. There is new territory to discover. It has not seen the light of day since 1991.
August 16th, 2016
“”Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. William Makepeace Thackeray,
August 15, 2016
“Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
August 09, 2016
Certainly moving, along at a clip, other than, the fact we are not sure just where Moi and the dog are headed to. This is the standard operating procedure here at the Downtownbnb. Have not yet decided on just where my destination is. Leaving that up to providence or coincidence, or most days the list of life. May find myself on a different continent from where I would have wished at the end of the day
August 05, 2016
August 05, 2016 We got the much needed rain, most of the night in fact. I had gone to the post office, ( now where are we going my readership asks.) I put Lucy in the back seat for a brisk drive, and we went about the day, hot and bothered. Well there was a cooling...
August 04, 2016
This is a notable guest ! An 80 year old traveling three days by bus, from Windsor. She is determined to go to a reunion of her high school chums. “it might not happen again”
August 03, 2016
“”Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
August 02, 2016
“”It always seems impossible until its done.” Nelson Mandela
August 01, 2016
Tonight as it is a holiday there might be another round of “where is a bed.” This is similar to “pop goes the wheeze-L” What is that game that children used to play at birthday parties, when the music stopped they dove for chairs. Well this is adults diving for a single bed left in the city.
July 30th, 2016
Had a good run of guests to fill up the exchequer
July 30, 2016
“”It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis
July 29th, 2016
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
July 25, 2016
“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People
July 24th, 2016
“”Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain
July 23, 2016
La Tomato, the little red car of some repute, started sounded like a formula one race car.
July 19th, 2016
“In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”
―Steven Millhauser
July 13, 2016
“I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.”
― Tana French, Broken Harbor
July 12, 2016
“”So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― Tom Schulman
July 07, 2016
This weekend, a thud and thump to the humdrum. The car show gets going. The big little city, hops with antiques on wheels extravaganza. Main street is closed off for parking, of the vehicles‘, and later dancing in the streets. It all moves to the park down the street for more fun and adventure.
July 05, 2016
It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
June 30th, 2016
June 30th, 2016 Half way thru the New Year folks. The huge news of the day??? A man, looking straight at me, told me to say just “yes.” WHAT ! What, what Enquiring minds want to know! Hold on to your hats. I was at the third hardware store that day. I had taken...
June 29th, 2016
SO there was a fortunate and favorable ending. Herein lies the tail.
June 28th, 2016
June 28th, 2016 The sun is under cloud cover at the moment, as was the day or my personality some would say, nevertheless is not anticipated to stay there. As it with life, and they say into every life some rain must come thundershowers, those are in the forecast for...
June 27th, 2016
June 27th, 2016 OFF we went to the beach to this time, go knee deep. The waters of the Northumberland straight cool. Recollections of swimming in May had been voiced, and reinforced by others on the beach. It was not to be a swimming day. However a nice beach day it...
June 25th, 2016
June 25th, 2016 It had a Friday feel to it and in fact, was. How amazing is that. I was in the right place or date. ! Lucy the golden of some standing, supervised from the comfort of a cool stone house, that would be the bed and breakfast. She was walked, albeit...
June 24th, 2016
“CANCER (June 22 - July 23): With the sun and Venus in your sign you are sure to achieve something worthwhile. You can also be sure that past efforts will be fully rewarded, if not immediately then certainly by the start of next week. Life is good and about to get...
June 22, 2016
June 22, 2016 Sultry summer has begun splendidly. Sun is hotnhigh inn the heavens. One hopes is to stay put, for long periods of time. This is & for the reason that, we just had the solstice. Added to the celestial hi-jinks, far-reaching magic, a full moon and all...
June 21, 2016
June 21, 2016 Now with experience and lots of it, I pass the time waiting for something to fall down, off or around, to see what the next project will be. I never thought that it would what I fell thru that would make the next agenda item Painting thru out the bed and...
June 20th, 2016
June 20th, 2016 Summer solstice, temperatures climbing to 30 or a high of 78 degrees, take yer pick, here in Canada, we are officially bilingual especially in weather, Celsius and Fahrenheit. With predictions of sunny AND warm OFF we went to celebrate Fathers Day....
June 15th, 2016
June 15th, 2016 You may have considered, my dear and gentle readers that groundhog day was in February or is it March? Here is again, it feels like ground hog day, it looks like it too, The weather, my favorite topics I have been told, has been and will continue to be...
June 14th, 2016
June 14th, 2016 It was hotter, higher and harder than I thought it would be. Gives a whole new meaning to hot headedness. OFF the urn register or more commonly called the bucket list. I had not realized I had a list of this sort. I just thought it was a good idea. I...
June 10th, 2016
June 10th, 2016 This Saturday, that would be tomorrow, if you are around the big little city, Moncton, there will be scrambling, screaming and the like. If you would like to participate, to celebrate, a little early, my natal day. Invite to all, to attend at...
June 04, 2016
June 03, 2016 Social media, Face book in reticular, has its uses, there is a “memory lane” app. Being hormone free, I have no recall or memory of my own. I now rely, it appears on machines to sustain some sort of life nowadays. Tea in hand and typing away in the early...
June 03, 2016
June 03, 2016 The phone call we made late in the day piloted only speculation. “The vet was fully booked.” We were not convinced or confident, that we would, an appointment for the hygiene technique necessary to keep a doggy odor down, or if we had an appointment with...
June 02, 2016
June 02, 2016 Sitting down to write to you, my dear and gentle readers, I recalled it was the anniversary. Yes indeed, what a ride ! kind of day. The anniversary of acquiring the bed and breakfast, on June 01, 2000. Moved in with a suitcase, cat and dog. Murphy the...
June 01, 2016
June 01, 2016 OFF we went to discuss the ways of the world and how to correct them. The parameters of the meal had to be that there was a balcony. The temperatures ascended to a gentle 30 degrees. Prior any to of this, Lucy had to get to the trail to get a soaking, as...
May 30th, 2016
MAY 25th, 2016 I am receiving reservations. Several days ago, I had a man book a room via my very international reservations systems. Standard operation procedure is to respond to that to ask just what time they will be arriving. PLUS, my financial institutions need...
May 27th, 2016
May 27th, 2016 One more day, departed, vanished like the pace of a rapid bullet. I did not, in fact, have to leap over any buildings, which is a good thing, when you think about it, but the allotted 24 was brisk in its expiry. Soup was made, beds were changed, dogs...
May 26, x2 2016
May 26th, 2016 Another first, they just keep approaching. Phone rang at 7 a.m. “I lost my drivers permit.” could you take us?” It was a displaced Fort MacMuarry worker, complete with tales of evacuation, twice, finally then back to Moncton. “ Come head, I am making...
May 25th, 2016
May 25th, 2016 I got my 15 minutes of illustriousness. No I was not on TV for an encore presentation, for a second time. Once a year I get to hand over big chunks of change for assurance. It was, and I got my once a year interview with my insurance agent. This is in...
May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 Exciting news. ONE MORE first!! Who in all this time would thing there is anything to report about. (It is not this by the way, just to let you know however, that considering on June 01, is an anniversary. I will have been at this address since the...
May 22, 2016 I was at the accountants twice, in a row, in the same day. There I was carrying my shoe box back and forth. I had to go back, as somehow there was confusion, this is not an unusual occurrence, regardless of wherever I go. This time I thought I might have...
Portia Nelson, There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk
“Chapter One of My Life. I walk down the street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It still takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two. I walk down the same street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I...
May26, 2016
May 21, 2016 Gentleman of a youngish age stayed with me, a sales rep for a company in the BIG Grapefruit of North America. ( JUST why do I call Toronto this ?? My curious and decanted, dear and gentle readers ask? New York is the big APPLE ) Lovely young man who...
May 20th, 2016
The Afterword from the book "Dying to be Me" Anita Manjoori Published 2012 Raincoast Publishers. "Before I close, I'd like to leave you with a few final words. Always remember not to give away your power-instead, get in touch with your own magnificence. When it comes...
May 19th, 2016
May 19th, 2016 Heading towards warmer and higher. Temperatures. Yes for most here a long weekend to celebrate a queen’s birthday. Not the current queen of our country, who lives across the pond, but of her a few great in there now, grandmothers several generations...
May 17th, 2016
May 17th, 2016 I should know at my age, and sensitivities, not to get my hair done at this time of year. Why !! my dear and gentle readers ask?? Adding to my allure, I have hives from the product. Beside, or on top of, or with, my annual hives as Spring is HERE! That...
May 13th, 2016
MAY 13, 2016 As well as, its Friday the 13th where all things happen, not to the affirmative and optimistic either, I understand. AND and and Mercury with 6 other planets I have been told are out of whack until the end of this month. Strap on yer seatbelts. I thought...
May 10th, 2016
May 10th, 2016 Yesterday was a typical, dismal fall day. The wind shrieked and hollered, the sky was discolorated by grayness, gloom to put it one word, overcast. (Something you rarely see me do, you will admit) You will be pleased to know, we may be back on track...
May 08, 2016
Mothers Day May 08th, 2016 I left Lucy at the back door, to recover from, as she had carried out, a chasing and stalking expedition, large and encompassing it was. She showed great fortitude. She was grinning, like mad, when done and back home at the back step,...
May 007, 2016
May 07, 2016 Here we are still staggering, but undulated, to the start of the season. This is my 17th. People have children older than this. There are TWO banana breads baking in the oven for two rooms. Two seems to be the number of the day. Note: the lamenting of...
May 06, 2016
May 06, 2016 There are a cast of characters supporting me in this endeavor of running a bed and breakfast. It is I can assure you my dear and gentle readers much too physical to have any romance whatsoever. I have enclosed the latest of emails, my side only, from a...
May 04, 2016
May 04, 2016 The stuttering start to the 2016 season, was in fact, a classic and characteristic, long term readers of the daily diatribe will note (approximately daily, in recent weeks. We are with the intention of daily, and almost back on track.) The Gordon gene...
May 03, 2016
May 03, 2016 The bed and breakfast, situated in the heart of Moncton, or as I like to call it, the big little city, has been consecutively continuously in commission since 1991. I have been proprietor since June 2000. It is a century property, and very colossal. It...
April 29th, 2016
April 29th, 2016 The joys, the unqualified and apposite enjoyment, happiness, of the managing the bureaucratic arm of a bed and breakfast. Up there with accounting procedures, or having a tooth extracted. Yes indeed behind the screams, ah that would be scenes, the...
April 28th, 2016
April 28th, 2016 My Syrian family has sent over meals, after we have toured around and about in La Tomato. What to send back in the empty plates, bowls and saucers, in reply. The mom mentioned that she does not spice her food because of the kids, so I just used garlic...
April 25th, 2016
April 25th, 2016 As per usual nothing stays on an even keel around here. The sun was out the temperatures increased, away we went into SPRING !!! back we plunged, the temperatures dropped. We headed in the other direction. This morning one could if you huffed, and...
April 22, 2016
April 22, 2016 There I was back in the bathtub, another time. I could not get out of the tub, for a second time. I did my dear and gentle readers will be pleased to know, wash my hair, a grand and great accomplishment, due to the state of my arms. You may committed to...
April 21, 2016
April 21, 2016 It snowed in Newfoundland, a HUGE airplane crashing snow storm. We missed that pleasure, the snow storm not the crash, let me quickly add. In fact, we are proceeding in the opposite direction, to the summer of temperature summit. I have to interrupt...
April 20th, 2016
April 20th, 2016 I have come to value arms. The hugging kind. They come in hand-y, if you pardon the pun. Thru out the day, I came to find out that in fact they are very useful in keeping one, upright, and balanced, physically, if not mentally, impressive. I never...
April 19th, 2016
April 19th, 2016 Most recent of the spring like days have been spent trying to amalgamate, that is bonded together, quite a lot of reservation systems, into one. This was like working on the international space station. All done glued to the screen most of the day,...
April 14th, 2016
April 14, 2016 Every morning is a fight. WHAT~ cried the loyal readership, wrestling ? Yes you my dear and gentle readers, read that correctly. Each and every mourning for the last year, Lucy and I have to fight. Yes. Every break of day, but not immediately, to be...
April 13, 2016
April 13th, 2016 Telephones. Can’t live with them it seems, in modern life, and I am truly very slow in that regard, it seems, now cannot live without them. As a result, the chronicle continues, here at the bed and breakfast. I had been looking for a new to me cell...
April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016 Yet again, the time of year, is at hand. Where else would it be ? my dear and gentle readers ask. The temperatures’ outside are in the normal range, where this time last year, we still had great gobs of snow. I know I know but it was dramatic. The...
April 10, 2016
April 10th, 2016 Screeching and hollering, I am s-l-o-w-l-y, and carefully, arranging to have pay for a reservation system for my reservation systems, how extreme it that?? I have to participate with the big boys, online organizations, that you google to book a hotel...
April 08, 2016
April 08, 2016 A diminutive taste of summer, was held last night. What ! come again? cry my dear and gentle readers, yes the big little city was full of plumbers, dentists and chiefs of industry, who knows what all. The huge hotel down the street phones and says we...
April 07, 2016
April 07, 2016 Even my horoscope today is telling me to get methodical and controlled: “Take care of your laundry and clean out your fridge. This is a terrific time for beautifying and cleaning your home. Organization is key! Once you designate things to their proper...
April 06, 2016
April 06/16 Dropping off my new found friends I hurried home for a quick cup of tea, late late lunch, then ! There was more to the day than met the eye. OFF we went for the rest of the afternoon. I had in my downsizing which I have to say at the moment is very much...
April 05, 2016
April 05, 2016 I met my new neighbors across the street are from Syria. They met at the University an hour away from her home. The university was in the capital of Syria, Damascus These are well educated people, she is an architect, he a journalist. 4 children, they...
April 06, 2016
April 03, 2016 Charming company, departed. Sigh. Always wonderful to have worthy of note, guests. Gone back to life as he knows it, and here at the bed and breakfast we continue on as per usual. The machines, necessary to keep all in order, have all sprung to life. We...
April 02, 2016
April 02, 2016 Breakfast was in the early hours, preparation was long before the sun was up. The guest, a youthful gentleman, and aren’t they all now, had to get to his conference down the street, on sleep apnea. On the table as it were, was exchange of ideas,...
April 01, 2016
April 01, 2016 No, nononon, tall narratives, nope not a joke at all, the temperatures are to soar to 15 degrees, It is 11 at the instant, so it could break historical accounts as it climbs, which these days does not seem so unusual, as we break them with...
March 29, 2016
March 29th, 2016 OFF we set out to boot camp, nothing extraordinary about that at all. Been doing it for years, five if you must know, six in May. You my dear and gentle readers, have been reading about the whining, and soreness for just about as long. The class was...
March 28th, 2016
March 28th, 2016 So to review, here we are yet again. Time was stable and steady, neither leaping has it has been in the previous month, nor gathering up energy to bound into spring like endeavors‘. No a mild winter month continuously. FURTHERMORE It is the end of a...
March 24, 2016
March 24th, 2016 OFF we go for another day of fun and adventure. Time traveling in all sorts of ways. My grip of reality slippery. My dear and gentle readers peer at the screen in alarm and apprehension. The day commenced was bleak winter grey and over cast, cold and...
March 23, 2016
March 23, 2016 I THOUGHT WE HAD DODGED THE BULLET. Ammunition?? My dear and gentle readers shriek? Just what is take place in the big little city!? It is snowing, plan and simple. No alliterations, or as my cousin said, split infinitives. No, nay, just plain, old,...
March 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 The time traveling period of year is and continues to be unrelenting and unremitting. We weathered the winter storm, the first of spring with another on the way for the end of the week. It was a gentle storm, but a tempest none the less. None of the...
March 20th,2016
March 21, 2016 The sun was to the highest degree, seriously, significantly in position, highly polished it seemed, in the sky. Out doing itself, fiercely and brilliantly. I have to declare and might add, the ultra valiant index was shooting up the scale to 3! A...
March 20th, 2016
March 20th, 2016 I was wildly buoyant, really optimistic. If truth be told, I am, at the best of times, wobbly in thoughts, imaginative would be a good word. I can claim a flight a fancy now and again, which is excellent for the soul, but just what was I thinking?...
March 18th, 2016
March 18th, 2016 Time traveling takes on many outward appearances. A short time ago, here in the diatribe, I meandered around the recently instated, institutional time change, that being, marching for me, may possibly be with a different drummer, forward and falling...
March 17th, 2016
March 17th, 2016 Top of the morning to you my dear and gentle readers. We are to rejoice with a snow storm thus, making chicken noodle soup. We went after boot camp to purchase sushi and the noodles. Then we were OFF to a meeting of the heritage board. Whoeee I lead...
March 15th, 10`6
March 15th, 2016 I just had to do it. Yep. What ! What!! exclaimed the dear and gentle readers of this daily missive. WHAT. I had to, in the brightness, and brisk winds to take off the protective plastic covering on the bushes on the foliage at the front of the house....
March 14th, 2016
March 14, 2016 We have been intuitionally, intentionally and institutionally time traveling. Yes indeed we are at the phase of the of year, when we are leaping onward. We are weary. All this moving time zones without leaving the comfort of your own home. Here at the...
March 06, 2016
March 12, 2016 Another day in position for lift off. Since the desk has been turned on the advice of my decorator, I can’t see the spire or the street on which we reside. I have to twist then shout about the weather and street scape. Both seems to be in place. A very...
March 11, 2016
March 11, 2016 Sorry sorry, was in the basement, have not composed a diatribe, in a minute or two. I have been and you (so you won’t have to hear any more about it) and I (as it will be done until the next box sails thru the door) and will be EXCEEDINGLY pleased when...
March 08, 2016
March 8th, 2016 International Women’s Day TODAY I hid from neighbor across the streets that helped dig me out of SOME of the accumulation of years. Even though I had stated to him I would continue in this vein, I did not. No the closet & dog towels awaits. I...
March 04, 2016
March 04, 2015 We took a day to recover from landscaping. Yes without a doubt, indeed, we plunged back into another season all together, time traveling, not knowing, as per usual, just where we were to land. The last days were similar to la Whizzard of Qz and Madame...
March 02, 2016
March 02, 2016 We cranked out our super duper pancakes’ for breakfast. OFF ! for an additional day of exuberance and adventure. Little cooler than the day before, but we managed to get about with out long undergarments. Still a sharp contrast to the warmth of the...
March 01, 2016
March 01, 2016 There we were, and have are in mud season the 5th of sorts here. Wedged in between hardier seasons as a rule. But this year, the customary cold colorless cruel winter has been like a chicken, ( I know its supposed to be lamb but need to keep up with the...
February 29, 2016 My dear and gentle readers! How to have and follow the daily diatribe, via the website should you wish to have it delivered daily to your inbox. the http://downtownbnb.com/category/lindas-blog/ check the right. Fill in your email address and volia...
February 27, 2016
February 27, 2016 I have to inform you, if truth be told, I do my dear and gentle readers, it does not look like I have done anything. I had called for reinforcements. Both parties declined, or failed to show at the appointed hour. One offering consolation and solace...
February 26, 2016
February 26th, 2016 The red alert was accurate, turned out it was factual, but not for the usual winter weather. Nope, no we were in for and received, please note, not in order of appearance, fog, so thick almost like a nor’easter it was almost impossible to see...
February 24, 2016
February 24, 2016 Now we have to catch up, there are many topic but I am referring to the weather ( I hesitate to mention this as it seems to jinks things in my life but plunge in I must) We will have, in short order, snow, rain, sleet to make up for the fact we have...
February 22, 2016
February 22, 2016 The day was at hand, “lets start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” Maestro please! The delight, the entertainment, the sonorously of songs, and some dance. OFF ! we went. WHERE ? the curious of my loyal readers cried. To and there,...
February 19th, 2016
February 19th, 2016 The nadir of the winter here in the big little city, half way thru a further month, for year 2016. It looks like, as we peer around the humble abode, all 5000 square feet of it, all is well. The furnace is roaring, tea is at hand. Out of doors, the...
February 18, 2016
February 18th, 2016 I have had feedback that my web link does not take people to my website. That was my blunder as I entered it incorrectly. This was not something I intended to do. (we all know where I am going) My excuse, however, is I trip over my fingers. I was...
February 17th, 2016
February 17th, 2016 This daily diatribe, which some of you my dear and gentle readers have been receiving for YEARS! (some not so much but will I fear get used to it) And faithfully friendly reading (much to my astonishment I have to admit) is now gone into the...
February 16th, 2016
February 16th, 2016 Australian police have seized more than Aus$1 billion (US$712 million or 4576$ billion CAD) in methamphetamine, or ice, concealed in inserts for intimate women’s undergarments in one of the country's biggest drug busts, authorities said Monday....
February 13, 2016
February 13th, 2016 The race is not really on.! Guests are at a snail’s pace, I have to say, starting. The pace is not overwhelming. This is the time of year when you can speak to and have fun with them. In the list of preliminary was a mother and 9 year old daughter...
February 15th, 2016
February 15th, 2016 Preceding year was the winter of the snow, still talked about, and frequently. This winter of discontent is schizoid. Tomorrow, and we have not gotten there yet, let me preface it is going to +8 with rain. These yesterdazes have been days of red...
February 11, 2016
February 11, 2016 I have had the courage to look at, in the old fashioned meaning of the word, the desk top, two square feet it is. My desk, and the desk drawers, here in the headquarters of the bnb, is an old fashioned, wooden, telephone company desk, a GIGANTIC,...
February 10th, 2016
February 10, 2016 Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday. Yes many of my dear readers would have had a pancake or two to celebrate . It is exactly 47 days before Easter Sunday. It is considered a movable feast. Next year for those who are curious it will fall on...
February 09, 2016
February 09, 2016 Many of you will recall when my 17 year old phone Nokie was put out to pasture, and retired. He would not hold a call, which is why one needs a phone basically. Trying to avoid a phone bill the size of a good car payment, I stuck the basics. I was...
February 06, 2016
February 06, 2016 Eyeballs were the only thing just about that got the workout. One for the times past books. Boot camp canceled. ! Not that is was difficult to maneuver on the streets with snow past your boots, You could get out of your driveway as they plows did not...
Feb 05, 2016
February 05, 2016 INNREVERSEwego! Back!? My dear and gentle readers ask? BACK? Yes indeed, winter is about to revisit, return to us and resume. Crimson alerts are out ! Grid yer loins! (how does one do that?) The modern town crier, the internet has issued dire...
February 03,2016
February 03, 2016 While I wait for the hordes to descend, to reimburse me for staying here at the bnb. I have been scouting out the stores, only with discounts of wild amounts of money. The signs on the store doors say up to 60% off. I never get 60% off but a girl can...
February 02, 2016
February 02, 2016 The storm did not appear to be much, just an excuse on a Friday night to stay home. Roads were to become a bit slippery, and that was the extent of it. Flashbacks’ of the last years winter of white, now they happen more frequently among the citizenry...
January 29th, 2016
January 29th, 2016 The red warning are flourishing. I truly, was not watching the weather too closely. How did that happen my dear and gentle readers ask? Still in my cozy coma. It was only thru the magic social media last night that I became aware as there was a...
January 28th, 2016
January 28th, 2016 Siblings, that is to say sisters fresh off the airplane from California, arrived for the aforementioned, that would in yesterdays diatribe, luncheon. The misses PhDs were charming and pleasant. BOTH possessing degrees of imaginable magnitude and...
Jan 27th, 2016
January 27th, 2016 Siblings, that is to say sisters fresh off the airplane from California, arrived for the aforementioned, that would in yesterdays diatribe, luncheon. The misses PhDs were charming and pleasant. BOTH possessing degrees of imaginable magnitude and...
January 26th, 2016
January 26th, 2016 I could have, as I have a bag of lemons, made a bread of that sort. Did I ? NO. I did not want to grate, the zest. Somewhat similar where I find myself this winter. No I have sunk into a coma. I seem to be not coming out of it either. To thwart...
January 24th, 2016
January 24, 2016 The bride to be, turned up to see the house, with the 3 month old in the car with the groom. Little families will be visiting with little babies, in bassinettes and cots with parents. Stuffed into corners I am sure. OFF we went, first tour of the...
January 23, 2016
January 23, 2016 “Blue skies, nothing but blue skies from now on“…sing it. The daily whirl of the websites, demonstrated this morning, while the caffeine went to work, that snow still is in fact falling hard, in another country, NOT HERE not even close, but deep in...
January 22, 2016
January 22, 2016 A huge enormous massive blizzard is swirling toward the eastern United States. educated guesses put snow on the ground, therefore a lot of boots, at more than 2 feet for Washington, a foot to 18 inches for Philadelphia and 8 inches to a foot in New...
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016 Enormous storm coming up the coast, just hitting Washington it appears, to screw up everyone. According to our local weatherman, it may, or might, or is, going to miss us. Halleluiah. I have been stalking that sucker, like Lucy with a squirrel, with...
January 19th, 2016
January 19th, 2016 One of the many star struck scopes I read prior to preparing the daily diatribe, scolded me about my housekeeping. I have to say, they were correct in their assessment. With nary a guest in sight, dust to dust is my motto, just not when the guests...
January 18th, 2016
January 18th, 2016 I went out for a few storm requirements, movies to watch, books to read, and the obligatory box of cereal, and there was no storm. The dread, the indication of gigantic, huge, massive storm, all of which set up to flashbacks up to last winter, when...
January 16th, 2016
January 16th, 2016 The snow, here in the big little city, is theoretically and hypothetically to start again, this afternoon. The monotonous, tedious, dreary and dull days of winter will continue in more ways than one. Never fear, the forecast has nothing serious in...
January 15th, 20165
January 15th, 2016 it is well here, cold, very cold as I will indicate, but have yet another reservation for August. I think the dieing loonie is going to help a lot. The currency for Canada has had predictions failing to 59 cents, coming in fast and furious....
January 14, 2016
January 14th, 2016 Time traveling inaugurated for the 2016 year ! Experiencing the first calendar day of a week feeling, yes indeed, the snow day has thrown, the whole thing, into a timetable tizzy. The snow, was reported to have started around 3 in the morning, and...
January 13th, 2016
January 13th, 2016 Hushed point in time here in the bnb. This is the time of the new year and as the date indicates above it is 2016, to grab hold of, and catch up, on any number of things. My primary occupation? Unearthing my sanity. ( My dear and gentle readers of...
January 12, 2016
January 12, 2016 $28 million U.S. an hour is the pace that the tickets are being sold at in the U.S. The treasure at the end of the rainbow? for lotto in the United States. $1.3 billion. That is a pile of treasure. AND all you need is a $2 ticket. The prize money is...
January 11, 2016
January 11, 2016 For the new blog readers, to the daily diatribe, on my website.. (By way of enlightenment, since June 2000 I have owned " The Downtown Bed and Breakfast," ) Greetings & salutations to all. Enjoy! Fresh, faithful discourse every day. OFF ! We go....
January 10th, 2016
January 10th, 2016 The only remaining day of the work week for some people who have a Monday to Friday job, I go to a class. I was not sufficiently recovered to sit up write, putting what little thoughts I had in order. You will notice a gap in the daily diatribe...
January 09,2016
January 09, 2016 Did NO cleaning, NONE, at all. You will be pleased however, that recycling hit the curb as I went with the major decision of a small green bags, rather than storing it frozen in the garage. When I did real the mail, both electronic or otherwise, I...
January 08, 2016
January 08, 2016 My hooray scope stated for today that “what you say will undoubtedly be bright, gripping, and certainly very interesting.” Every paragraph a lifetimes work. Every webpage imaginable, stating the stars for the day, state just about the same thing....
January 07, 2016
January 07, 2016 One week inn. The opening performance of 52. Enormous and great accomplishments’ were by and large put off until after the holidays,. Then and only then, the expected and mundane were done. I watched as the holiday greeting card sent forth, returned...
January 05, 2016
January 05, 2016 I jotted things for the list of life thinking that I would get to them, but reality, kept intruding. I was trying to keep at my break from reality, and almost succeeded. The world thinking it had missed out by taking a vacation JUMPED back to full...
Happy new Year 2016
January 06, 2016 WE ARE BACK! The flipside, a new year and here we go…..the year, 2016 for those of who time travel, will have, we hope, an overriding theme is to “live a life with intention.” or as they say in the book of common prayer, which some of you might be...