Way behind schedule this week - apologies for those who were waiting eagerly for the blog. Just another busy week and September is shaping up to be very busy for me as well, with several important meetings and travel for both work and leisure every week. I'll try to...

I'm back from my road trip - I packed a lot of activity (and a lot of miles) into 5 days. The weather wasn't great, but it didn't interfere much with my enjoyment (though the boat ride in the pouring rain would have been better were it a tad drier). As part of my...

Greetings all. I hope you weren't affected by the remnants of Debby that came through late last week. We got a day of overcast with intermittent rain, but otherwise not too bad. I'm hoping for good weather the next few days as I head out on my road trip to Port Huron....

Happy first full week of August, I guess. As I mentioned last week, there aren't any holidays (at least not national holidays) in North America the United States in August, so we just have to make our own special days. I had a nice weekend with an unexpected crab...

Happy August everyone - can it be September now? Actually, despite the hot and often stormy weather, August is one of my favourite months. I'm a little biased, as it's my birth month, but growing up I liked that my birthday was in a month when school was out and there...

It's still hot but at least we got some rain in the past few days, though I'm not sure my lawn will ever be green again. My workload has returned to near-normal so I may actually get this blog posted Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the puzzle arrives in your inbox....

The heat goes on... it's too hot for me to spend any time out on my deck - the most time I've been spending there is to water my plants and try to keep them alive. We may get a bit of a break this weekend, but I'm already longing for the pre fall days of September....

I wished you all a belated Happy Canada Day last week, and this week my post itself is belated. I'll blame my tardiness on the heat - it's been roasting here with no letup in sight. I hope wherever you are you are able to keep cool, and maybe even take time off to go...

Belated Happy Canada Day! And greetings to you all from US Independence Day! I used to live in Detroit and I loved that they had a week-long celebration of both holidays call Freedom Festival. The ship I was on would go out and anchor in the river to help enforce the...

Well, summer is definitely here - officially with the Solstice last week as well as meteorologically with the temperatures we've experienced recently. And we're getting our usual summer weather pattern with heat and humidity during the first part of the day,...