tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82963802024-03-10T15:13:33.891-04:00Sticky CrowsThoughts from an American turned Canadian in Montreal.tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.comBlogger1622125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-42104561934709995382023-11-26T16:22:00.001-05:002023-11-26T16:23:21.235-05:00 2023 RecapGreetings, friends. As I did last year, I thought I would write a recap of the year to close it out (and at least have two blog entries for the year). It has been a year of mostly ups and few downs and here are the highlights, snippets meets holiday letter style.* It has certainly been a big travel year. I started things out by going down to Ecuador in January for a few weeks and collecting the tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-29035818059651099452023-05-31T12:05:00.010-04:002023-05-31T12:33:40.429-04:00Trip of a LifetimeGreetings to the tribe. It's been a long journey from the holidays to June that included a three-week visit to Cuenca Ecuador in January and a 5-night Caribbean cruise at the end of February. If we are connected on Facebook, you've surely seen some pictures from those trips as well as the subject of today's post: Our six-week trip down under and back. It all started on March 21st as we flew to tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-61987486960051856202022-12-03T12:09:00.001-05:002022-12-03T13:28:15.411-05:00Holiday letter 2022Happy holidays y'all! It's a rare year I don't send holiday cards out, but this is one of them. How did I ever have time before? I'll do better next year, but what better reason than to pen a holiday letter? Some people love those letters and others don't. I love them but have never written one myself. And the beauty of the blog is that I can add as many pictures as I want. So grab a cup oftornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-75778726696090635972022-07-11T11:20:00.000-04:002022-07-11T11:20:09.500-04:00What pandemic?Well folks, it looks like I'm a twice a year blogger now. It's important to keep it going for me if only to have a record of my life I can review when I'm old and can't remember anything anymore. As it is, Google photos has been very helpful with remembering what year we did what in. So without further adieu, here is a rundown since the mid winter update. After coming home from Ecuador in tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-15474241137446355042022-02-13T11:01:00.000-05:002022-02-13T11:01:18.503-05:00Mid winter update Greetings reader, welcome back. The last time I checked in, I detailed our journey moving to the country and buying a mobile home in a gay male trailer park/campground. Well, we pinched ourselves all through summer finding it hard to believe the luck in having ended up here. And as you'll see, the pluses keep coming. During the summer several friends came and visited and despite there tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-43399073890101392032021-07-22T14:05:00.001-04:002021-07-22T14:05:55.778-04:00My but our times have been interestingGreetings reader and thanks for stopping by. (A plural seems presumptuous.) First, let me apologize for another long absence. It's not for lack of things happening, but the sheer volume of happenings left little time for blogging. (I'm writing this in the office of my new home in the country. But we will get to that.)Walking with George through the park after returning from Ecuador.Let's see now,tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-10730071725499627352021-02-24T14:49:00.001-05:002021-02-24T14:49:12.307-05:00Ecuador 2021 Greetings all, I know I haven't been keeping up here much, but it is still a pandemic and spending 99% of your time in the house doesn't lend itself much to interesting updates. We did make a bunch of videos with our advent calendar of beauty products. You can find those on my (tornwordo) youtube channel. That was a fun distraction in December. They weren't all that popular except for one tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-16606626473111138072020-08-02T13:19:00.003-04:002020-08-02T13:33:21.501-04:00PandevidenceLooking through my photos from the pandemic months, you would think, absent the absent globetrotting, that life was marching along normally. True, I haven't taken any masked selfies yet (why not just hold up the mask in your hand to show it photographically? Are we really somehow enhancing our appearance with the mask? I'd say no.) so there are no telltale signs of a horrible disease roiling all tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-52372103319717138842020-03-22T11:12:00.001-04:002020-03-22T11:12:16.148-04:00Overpiled maladicallySerge said to me last night, "Today is the first day of spring, isn't it?" Wut? Wait just one minute now, I am the announcer of seasons in this household. It was just another in a long line of examples of how much life has changed in the last couple of weeks. The first day of spring, by the way, turned out sunny and cold, much like today. We did not leave the house.
This morning's cases and tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-36221540310123884482020-01-18T14:49:00.001-05:002020-01-18T14:49:18.076-05:002020 DudesGreetings one and all. We made it! 2020 is here, the year I will be 55 AARP! I started this blog 15 years ago and though it has been largely untended these past years, I hope to appear a bit more often as there is no other venue like this to keep like my scrapbook. I can see myself perusing (and harshly criticizing) my writing when I'm good and old. Since I haven't been here a while, let's treat tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-59680469044710941192019-03-19T11:51:00.000-04:002019-03-19T11:51:03.765-04:00Snippets 2019- Greetings all. Over a year since I checked into this blog space. A year! I know eventually, google will remove the blog due to inactivity so I've got to pop in at least once a year to keep this record alive. How else will I remember anything before Facebook? If I can't remember when something happened, I can at least refer back here. So here I am.
&tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-75631874129518656432018-02-14T13:22:00.000-05:002018-02-14T13:22:37.083-05:00Already 2018Wow and sigh! I think this is now the longest I've neglected the blog, hopefully not a trend. I've got six months to catch up on on this here little blog thingy. Last post detailed our trip to Ohio last July. Now it's February! Where or where does the time go. Aside from working all summer, we made another trip to Campcamp where we enjoyed another best time ever.
In addition to my work tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-53646879055331903582017-07-26T10:48:00.000-04:002017-07-26T10:48:53.537-04:00Summer updateHey kids, long time no blog. Maybe that is because we haven't gone anywhere since Cuba in February. Until last week that is. I am just gonna go through the few photos I have taken since then and see if we can't craft a post out of this.
As it turns out, I have no pictures from March. This is probably because I got terribly ill after I stopped taking Champix and was down for the count for 9 tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-91565521206024730972017-02-26T16:29:00.003-05:002017-02-26T16:29:33.127-05:00Wintertime wanderings
The day after my last blog, I went to California for my annual holiday visit. It was cheaper to fly into San Diego so that is where I went. I got to meet up with Beth in Pacific Beach (cute neighborhood!) for food and drinks and a walk on the beach. It was a spectacular day in the 70's. This would not be repeated until my last day.
Then I headed to camp Mama where they have a whole new tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-84540346657448147492016-12-26T15:47:00.000-05:002016-12-26T15:47:39.013-05:00Serge's 50th birthday South America extravaganzaHey everyone, sorry I have been absent the last few months. I have been crazy busy with work (got a new higher-paying gig, yippy) and somehow we were able to cram in a 16 day vacation to South America for Serge's 50th birthday. Once again, it turned out to be the vacation of a lifetime. Let's get started, shall we?
South America is far! It took us two 7 hour flights connecting through Panama tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-84204802629856365142016-09-12T14:52:00.000-04:002016-09-12T14:52:01.621-04:0012 on 12
Let's start this post with some Georgie porn. He has been a great dog as we have started dog sitting for other people through Dogvacay and Pawshake. It's like airbnb but for pet sitting. I adore dogs and Georgie tolerates the dogs and Serge, well I'll be kind and say he tolerates them too. This week we have a big black lab that George actually plays with. George rarely plays anymore so I feel tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-16019977706356347332016-07-25T12:52:00.000-04:002016-07-25T12:53:02.177-04:00Summer Snippets
* We can start with the George meister. He doesn`t really care for summer. Just blobs all day on the sofas. I had an appt. yesterday to get his nails clipped for free and completely forgot. Doh!
* Every summer seems to have a theme with me. This year it`s reading. I`ve gone through spells like this before where I can`t get enough. I`m averaging a book a week but one book, Miss Peregrine's tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-46183619653902147022016-07-07T16:32:00.002-04:002016-07-07T16:32:36.989-04:00My bad
I recently became aware that I wish death upon a person.
When the thought would come to my mind, my good self shamed me, what a terrible
thing to think. It would be one thing if it were Donald Trump I were wishing
gone, as I am sure no small number of people desire. No, and I am no Trump fan,
but he has stolen nothing from me. Is that it? Is that why I want this person
to die? And just what is tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-71259873423827664122016-06-28T16:43:00.002-04:002016-06-28T16:47:27.947-04:00Entertaining
Today we busied ourselves,
preparing for tomorrow’s BBQ where we expect 30 or so guests. Serge has turned
into his angsty, pre-visitor persona, and rushes about to make sure that we
don’t appear to be the dirty slobs we are. Well, I more than him to be truthful.
Anyway, we were able to squeeze in Finding Dory in the afternoon but the nerves
of receiving made it less than wonderful and it wasn’ttornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-40999982329023567312016-06-24T10:58:00.001-04:002016-06-24T10:58:38.206-04:00Weekly journalingI have been reading A LOT and this always puts me into the mood to write. So I think I will start a weekly journal here without announcing it on FB. In a wonderful mood today.
My days unfold thusly: There is the first wake, nearly always nine or more hours since going to bed. It is usually my bladder that forces me up into the day. If I am tired, I sleep an hour or two more before really risingtornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-86465923857699249312016-06-01T11:27:00.000-04:002016-06-01T11:27:54.296-04:00Spring travelogue
I've been lax on updating the blog. So sorry, but we have been awfully busy as you will see. Here is my honey and I at our annual Sugar Shack outing. After Cuba, I went on a diet to lose all the holiday weight I gained but made an exception for this. Boy did I have a stomachache after. It felt like my stomach had shrunk, but more likely the quart of maple syrup I ingested.
We went with tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-45470191040360040402016-04-02T15:01:00.003-04:002016-04-07T06:06:14.691-04:00This is probably an overshare
So I recently had a colonoscopy. (My first!) The video is me taking the first of several glasses of what I thought tasted like lemonheads. By the end it was kinda sickening though. You'll be happy to know everything checked out and I don't even have any polyps. The "anasthesia" they gave me didn't work. Seriously, but I didn't care because it doesn't even hurt. Well it sorta does when they tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-28275733427139123792016-01-22T14:04:00.000-05:002016-01-22T14:04:06.626-05:00Sliding into 2016
Happy 2016 everyone, I hope you had as delightful a holiday season as we had. We have gone back to Regine Cafe a couple of times and everything is so delicious and creative and beautiful. Food has become such a source of pleasure for me since I have been a non smoker for over three months now. (Yay me!)
I so enjoyed the holidays this year. Not only did I get two solid months of Christmastornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-82833017965410011602015-12-19T15:59:00.002-05:002015-12-19T15:59:40.180-05:002015 Home Stretch
Happy holidays everyone. Here's the card that went out to many. I can't afford to send a card to everyone I know so posting it here is one way to spread some holiday cheer. Serge has been very patient with me this year with the decorating and holiday music. The tree was up before Halloween and although he wouldn't let me listen to the music in October, it has been on pretty much always since tornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8296380.post-63437686981615716642015-10-30T15:45:00.001-04:002015-10-30T15:45:05.323-04:00Autumn social butterfliesWow, it's been a while since I've posted. Dang Facebook sucking all my social time. Of course if we are friends on there, there won't be much new for you here unless you like my more expository writing on the blog. As you will see, we have been quite social in real life too.
A couple weeks after Camp Camp, we went out to Granby to stay the weekend with our friends. It's only an hour drive buttornwordohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.com5