Monthly Archives: July 2012

City Market

This morning I was in the mood to go shopping at the City Market downtown. Mood, in my case, means I have a wallet with cash on the ready, because as we know, the City Market is not into debit … Continue reading

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Blog Week – Day 5 – Park After Dark

After a few days of extreme heat, then a few nights being shaken out bed because of some mighty storms, now we have smoke. My Day 5 post is a day late, as Michael and I attended Northland’s Park After … Continue reading

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Blog Week – Day 4 – Meal Ideas

Subtitled: Meal Ideas When You are Tired and Everyone is Tired Today, when it seems everyone I talk to is exhausted because of the combination of heat thunder heat rain heat humidity heat rain heat oh there goes a canoe … Continue reading

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Blog Week – Day 3 – Cup Cakes!

Today is my hubby’s birthday!! Fweeeeeeep! Toot! Hoorah! Yay! To have a proper birthday celebration in our family, it must, absolutely MUST be celebrated with a sweet cake with icing. Take your pick of the form of this delicious combination, … Continue reading

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Blog Week – Day 2 – Refreshment

I’m getting a bit tired of all the complaining (mainly from me) about the heat. Saw this on Facebook and have to share here since it made me laugh: Today, being the smart cookie that I am, thought I would … Continue reading

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Blog Week – Day 1 – Bean Salad

Inspired by Mack Male’s (Edmonton’s super-star blogger) appearance on Breakfast Television this morning to promote and inform about the world about blogging, I decided that I will do a Blog-A-Day this Monday to Friday. Come hell or high water. Mood … Continue reading

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Thursday Afternoon

What a riot. I could watch that .gif all afternoon. Today was an interesting day. On the trek into work today, I came across these blocks of wood on the sidewalk: I could easily write a blog dedicated to the … Continue reading

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Shrimp Boil

Michael and I attended our first ever shrimp boil. It was a perfect afternoon for a bunch of family to gather at my Uncle Ed’s and Auntie Barb’s place to say goodbye (they are leaving Edmonton) and attend Uncle Ed’s … Continue reading

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Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians here and abroad! It’s a great day to be Canadian, and know this little bit (downpour) of rain, thunder and lightening will pass and not dampen our spirits here in Edmonton. We have … Continue reading

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