Good Saturday morning. And tomorrow is the big day - Crime for Christmas will be happening at the Barrhaven Legion between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.! Your one-stop shopping spot for mystery book stocking stuffers, not to mention delicious free goodies and a bar where you can...
Good Saturday morning, my friends. It's an overcast, freezing rain kind of week, but won't let grey November skies get us down. Today, I'm signing books at Coles Carlingwood from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. and hope you can come by and say hi. It's getting on...
Looks like winter is arriving by snowstorm tomorrow with some plummeting temperatures on Monday. We've had such a lovely long stretch of good weather that this is a huge change. Time to find the winter coat. But today, you can come out to Kichesippi Brewery in...
And just like that, we are into November! Of course, everyone in Canada is watching the Blue Jays in the World Series. No matter how it ends, the team has done Canada proud ...
How about those Jays? It's been an exciting run and not over yet! Ted and I watched the games all summer long, so we're quite invested in the team and hoping they go all the way, despite the odds. One game down and three to...
Happy crisp October morning to you. It's been a busy, social kind of week with the release of A Capital Mystery, an anthology of short stories by Ottawa authors with all the stories set in and around Ottawa. The book has received terrific reviews and...
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! We are celebrating this evening with family and friends since this is the only day everybody is free. Ted will be cooking a turkey on the barbecue and we've got a bit of a potluck going on -...
First Saturday in October, and we're squarely into autumn. I've cleaned out 1/3 of my 30 flower pots, but the weather has been so glorious that I'm giving the rest a reprieve until the frost hits. Today, we're going up to 27 degrees C! It was...
Another Saturday has rolled around, the last weekend in September. Still lots of green on the trees, so I've put off cleaning out my flower pots, but plan to get at it this week while it's still mild. Not my favourite task ever. Well, I did...
And another week has flown by! No rain and endless sunshine ...