Pull it together, Ontario
True to form (which is to say, consistently formless and unpredictable) the Ontario government on Friday announced restaurants and bars could open their patios. With no warning. First of all, […]
Category Archives: Daily life
A sniff of Spring
Wednesday night we went for a walk around the neighbourhood. When we got home I made us an Old Fashioned each and we drank them on the back deck. We […]
Torpor
Yesterday was a bit of an exercise in staying still. Sleeping in ’til 9. Staying in bed until noon, save grabbing coffee from downstairs. Walking across the hall to the […]
Jules Bistro
At least once each weekend we try to set aside an evening as date night — fancy delivery, dinner table, proper place settings, music, etc. — and our go-to dinner […]
Fun with screens
While normally we find it exhausting to look at screens, yesterday they were the underpinnings of a pretty good day. Somehow yesterday I became aware that Bar Volo, and its […]
Comparing my discretionary spending pre- and post-COVID
[Cross-posted from LinkedIn, with some revisions] Prompted by my colleague Kat’s post “How COVID-19 changed my spending habits“, I decided to piggyback on her idea. Here’s what I found. [But first, the […]
The switch to repose
Now, a week after I posted about starting vacation, it feels like we’re probably able to relax. On Sunday of this week we drove out to Oshawa to pick up […]
Let the final phase of this bullshit year begin
I’m on vacation now, more or less. While I might work a bit more between now and 2021, I’m pretty much shut down. We obviously couldn’t go home to NS […]
In the house
Hey, we’re in the new house! Moved in Friday, and have fumbled our way through a sea of boxes since then. Kramer is here too, after a few days alone […]
The Lower Don
Three years after it re-opened (and us living practically next door to it) we finally walked part of the Lower Don River trail today. We Uber’d to the Brickworks, mistakenly […]
