My Everything Corner

Life has been beautifully busy. Welcome to summer!  Now that school is officially out, I thought time would slow down a bit, but nope! - It seems to be on fast forward. In the first two weeks of July alone, we will celebrate a special birthday, a 50th anniversary, my own 20th anniversary, send two kids to camp in opposite directions and pick them up. Somewhere we will try to get to the beach a few times and relax, and of course there is the yard to tend to. I forgot to mention, we kicked it all off with Canada Day on the 1st - our big 150! That was fun. A trip to a small town I'd never been to and then mini-golf and fireworks at the lake.   Being that Southern Saskatchewan is primarily farmland, it's not surprising to see a giant sculpture of a common crop, oats. This is definitely one of my favourite small town pieces. Ituna, Sk. Fireworks at Good Sprit Provincial Park - always a delight and a photography challenge.     The slowest part of my day...

Last week, when my husband asked if I wanted to go visit friends in Cold Lake, AB., a 7 plus hour drive, the answer was, “I really don’t think so.” I couldn’t picture myself wanting to go anywhere in this weather.   But here we are, it is -26C outside.   All the back windows of the car are completely frosted up, and we’ve been on the road for over 2 hours already.   It’s only 8am. A drive by picture, about 1/2 hour from Cold Lake, AB We plan to arrive at our destination at about 2pm, 1pm AB time.   It’s great when the time change works in your favor.   Although, I doubt I’ll feel that way around 10pm tonight. Anyway, back to my point of not wanting to go anywhere.   I would have chosen to stay home, and continue on with the depression I’ve been stuck in for about 6 weeks now.   I think most people would describe my state of mind as ‘light depression’.   But my husband, poor dear, gets the brunt of it, and he has been the one to h...