Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Poisonous Newts!!! Well, we found a rough-skinned newt on our walk today. Very cute (it's the second one we've found in the road and moved so it doesn't get run over). I had no idea – but it's apparently RIDICULOUSLY POISONOUS!! Which has its advantages – no-one wants to eat it – and that's why it…
Alcohol update! So, to make our alcohol budget go a little further we thought we would make some of our own – starting with blackberry wine. But we seem to have got a bit carried away… This is a list of the alcohol currently in progress: Blackberry wine. 5 gallons – or approximately 30 bottles.We're…
The last blackberries… Can you believe that last week, November 6th to be precise, I picked a punnet of fresh blackberries from our 'garden'. Wow – that is one mild Fall! So, today we picked a few of the remaining apples on the tree and Duncan has just finished baking many apple & blackberry goodies! And…
Do women really look horrible without make-up?
So, recently I have had a visit from a local 'Mary Kay' lady. She was very nice – helpful, encouraging and very well dressed (especially for Salt Spring!).
Now I LOVE make-up – it's like art – but on your face. I just wish I LOVED how I look without make-up as much as I love how I look with it, and this of course is what I'm working on. In fact this week I actually went out – to a number of stores – with glasses on AND no make-up! I am getting brave…
So, back to my 'Mary Kay' visit. We had a little pampering session where I tried various lotions, potions and then a little make-up. And so it was that I mentioned she had picked an interesting market – Salt Spring – where so few women actually wear make-up.
Her response was vehement, "And don't they look HORRIBLE!" Goodness. Here I am, trying to learn to love how I look without make-up and a fellow woman is saying how horrible women on Salt Spring look without make-up…
Now, to be fair, this is a bit like going to the hairdresser and expecting them to OK the fact that you only have your hair cut once a year…
We have no Central Heating! Well, no big surprise there – we never have had any! In fact THIS is (currently) our heating for the whole house ——> Well, a stove and one very small baseboard heater. Both in a Sun Room that is not fully insulated… And yet somehow this house is substantially warmer than…