Tag Archives: home

Total Eclipse

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I’m an avid moon-watcher, love to see it through the trees round our home, its changing position and light as the night rolls round (I’m a poor sleeper!) … TOTAL ECLIPSE the moon followed me home one night slipped each … Continue reading →

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Questions

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

There are some days when I wonder what’s going on. It may be the heat or the orneryness of life, things go missing (my garden trowel), things get found in odd places (a ring on the driveway) … QUESTIONS this … Continue reading →

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Another Jack

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Schools are back in the swing and I’m wondering if nursery rhymes are still sung or said at home or school, pre-school or kindergarten. Here’s a medley of lines from some of the more famous, or not, from childhood … … Continue reading →

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Lost

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

It’s Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, and Saint Valentine’s Day today, February 14. The latter started as a Western Christian liturgical feast day honouring an early saint named Valentinus. It’s not a public holiday but it’s a big celebration … Continue reading →

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Anniversary

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Joanna M. Weston

We’ve just celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary with close family and lots of laughter. Great fun. And now for the next 50 … A ANNIVERSARY we came hand-in-hand down the aisle no idea that we would walk into campgrounds a … Continue reading →

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Deserted House

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

There are so many old houses, particularly on the prairies. They have stories in them, questions about who lived there, how their lives were governed by the landscape. Did they move out? what made them change their way of living, … Continue reading →

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Where Home Is

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

Everyone’s home is different, the map-reading a separate event, each series of directions special to who we are, what we do, where we live. Difficult to describe but everyone knows where their own home is … A WHERE HOME IS … Continue reading →

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The Prose of my Life

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

I spent time over Christmas detailing my genealogy, digging out dates and places, with one of my sons. Which, of course, set me looking back and remembering. The result is a potted autobiography, great fun to write … A A … Continue reading →

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