...on our cottage.  •  Not that there isn't stuff to do but it has been a long time since I have seen the sort of monsoon that went on all through the night. And fog horns. Sad when you are woken by fog horns. Dry footed. That's what I am. But we stumble on, full of the hope for sun later in the …

I always find the gap between July 1 and July 4 noteworthy. I don't know why. I am glad Canada Day, the quieter of the two comes first. The neighbourhood played 500 Up and then napped on Wednesday. We will be across the border for Saturday, too, so expect to be a bit more sis-boom-bah about the …

[Ed.:Four years ago in 2005, I was in the middle of writing the Tantrama City series of posts on the near future Canada of 2007 which is now in fact in the near past. One of the posts celebrated events on Canada Day just as Canada was devolving into a number of regional potentates. I wonder what … read more »

So how did spring 2009 turn out? We hardly judge them, springs. They are a gift after the bleak second half of winter. They convey none of the foreboding that can even creep in around mid-July. It's all give, give, give. Except it was cold. We had the air conditioning on for one day the whole time …

This is the problem with averaging: June's more than half done which means it's almost over which means it's almost July which means the year's half done which means which means it's almost over which means it's almost 2010 which means the decade without a name is almost over. By this logic I am …

Welcome to June. The halcyon days of May are over. Harsh reality slaps you back in the face. Reality like being listed as a loser on Tweeting too Hard or that you never got the passport. But things are that bad as the tragic lost plane or far less so Boyle might suggest. Shout Huzzah as the … read more »

It's the meteorological chitchat that keeps you coming back. I know it. We spend so much time looking forward to a bright hot day that you would think we would record them in binders like family albums, categorized by how nice the breezes were or how long the evening seemed to last. Tomorrow bodes …

I don't know if this is the fourth best day of the year or maybe the fifth. I will have to see how intense my interest is this year and base it on that but after Christmas, the start of the school year and one's own birthday can there really be a rival for the claim? I was in Holland 23 years ago …

Previous celebrations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Spring happens this month. Baseball happens this month. Plants will poke their heads out of the ground. I might even BBQ. March good. The bad months are past. Woot.  •  These Too Be Sun Worshipers Update: While one may quibble as to the point …