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Just Little Bits

December 6, 2024

A little bit of patience, and the hardest task is done; a little bit of cheerfulness is brighter than the sun. A little bit of courage and the burden lighter grows; a little bit of sacrifice and the stream of friendship flows. A little bit of happiness and off goes black despair; a little bit…

More Disney pictures

November 26, 2024

Cruising down the river in the Adventureland Park. Some of the scenarios made me wonder if this really was a park designed for children. 🙂 More than a little scary, also funny, like the people who have climbed the tree to escape the rhinoceros. But don’t those snakes look real?

Made squash soup

October 29, 2024

I made a big batch of squash soup today. It is just cooling now so I can put it in containers and freeze it. Two years ago, I bought three acorn squash plants from a local market. However, when the squash appeared, they weren’t acorn squash. Last year I bought plants from a roadside stand…

A Late Spring

May 25, 2024

The new buds on the branches of the fir trees are bright green this year. That’s not always the case, but it has been a slow spring, still very cool. It is 6 to 8 C degrees/ 43 F in the morning, rising seldom past 10 C/ 50 F in the afternoon. All the colours…

HOME

May 4, 2024

Voice of encouragement at break of day: “Pickup your pack, O Pilgrim, and away!” This doth the voice of Home each new dawn say. Those who go daily forth are blessed by her, feeling their spirits rise, their pulses stir, for Home is both a magnet and a spur. She sends us forth each morn…

My Gratitude for 2023

December 30, 2023

As we approach the New Year (can you believe it?) I’m looking forward with excitement and gratitude to what it might bring. I wish you all great things in 2024.

Woodland Pursuit

November 13, 2023

My latest book is live. Kitty is an environmental blogger. She writes about the reduction of salmon spawn, the depletion of the numbers of whales, the loss of old growth forests. Then she decides to go undercover to work for a logging company and discover what she can about illegally cutting the old growth trees.…

I Love Roses

August 21, 2023

At my old house, I grew numerous roses in the garden. They have been one of my favourite flowers. However, where we live now, they don’t survive. This area is known as a ‘frost pocket’ by the local farmers, and the roses rot in the damp cold during the winter. So although I have planted…

My Garden

August 18, 2023

The garden is strange this year. ( I always say that, but it seems different every year. ) This year the tomatoes are ripening much earlier. Usually I harvest most of them in the fall when they are still green and put them under my bed to ripen. This year, most of them are ripe…

Do you enjoy reading?

July 8, 2023

My Read and Review Team has room for a few more readers who enjoy reading a book and letting others know what they think of it. Are you one of those people? Please send your information to sylviegraysonauthor@gmail.com including- Your name, a link to previous reviews you have posted, your interest in reading and reviewing…