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July 8, 2010 How do you keep your house cool on these hot summer days, apart from using air conditioners? We don’t have a cool basement, but we have found ways to beat the heat. In the evening, as soon as the outdoor temperature is as low as the indoor temperature (or vice versa, of course), we . . . → Read More: keep the house cool on hot days May 28, 2010 Tendrils. 20 May 2010 Good morning, Papa! The sun is rising and the sky is blue! The leaves on the tree in the back yard look like they are enthusiastically waving hello to the rising sun! The air is so clear, and the many variegated greens of trees and grass and plant life of all descriptions are . . . → Read More: good morning, Papa! May 12, 2010 5:45 am Just woke up, opened the window wide, and deeply breathed in fresh, cool, clean, almost-summer morning air. The glow of the just-about-to-rise sun is back-lighting the mountain top ridges, so that every tree-top stands out in sharp relief. The birds are singing, calling out to each other, welcoming the morning. The weather . . . → Read More: Penticton Pedestrian: almost-summer morning April 17, 2010 Woke up 7 am and have done all kinds of catch-up stuff: many loads of laundry, house cleaning, email and facebook, an hour on the phone with my daughter and grandson who are missing us already (and us them!), etc etc etc! Now sitting outside on the front patio. It is quite warm but . . . → Read More: back home … and back to blogging! April 10, 2010, early morning. Just opened the front door to peek outside – and warmth from the sunshine came streaming in. So here I am sitting on my lawn chair just inside the screen (glass!) door, enjoying the sunny warmth while reading and writing. It’s supposedly 1 C (with a wind chill that brings . . . → Read More: sunny spot! April 8, 2010 11:10 am…. Woke up at 5 am. Walked, about 6:30, to street church breakfast, with an amazing thunderstorm with huge jagged bolts of fork lightning streaking through a deep gray sky, followed by rolls of sheet lightning, and streams of rain pouring down. But by 7:00 the sky was beginning to . . . → Read More: Penticton Pedestrian: wonderful weather day! April 6, 2010 This morning woke up at 5:30 to pouring rain; by 6:30 the rain had stopped; and by about 8 am the sun was peeking through the clouds. By 8:30 it was pretty nice – and now it is gloriously sunny, so here I am outside on my little front patio, with a steaming . . . → Read More: unpredictable spring weather .. and learning to blog March 11, 2010 It was blowing hard last night – first time in this house that I could hear the wind catching the building. They had snow in Coquitlam and the north shore – several centimeters of very white but very wet and mushy stuff! And snow on Haida Gwaii a couple days ago, too! . . . → Read More: And Ol’ Man Winter fighting back! March 10, 2010 So today was beautiful and sunny. I swept all the house and hubby washed the floors! I washed the winter hats, gloves, and scarves, and dried them outside in the sun and wind. I knocked down a bunch of boxes in the shed and took them to the cardboard recycling bin. . . . → Read More: Beautiful Spring Day! |
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