I don’t know if you know that Anna is a bit of a Star Wars freak… She found a game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and brought it with her to Winnipeg. She’ll be the first to admit she looked a bit nerdy with the game sticking out of her carry-on, on the train.
Considering the [...]
Are there two kinds of camera-toting people? If I were to venture a sweeping, population-dividing statement, I’d say that there are those who bring a camera and get people to pose: “Ok, stand in front of the tree! Smile! Click!” Repeat. Then there are those much too shy to ask anyone to sit, stand or [...]
Mémère, as Christian’s Grandma is affectionately called, passed away yesterday, just after 6:00. Marie-Hélène and I spent most of the afternoon at the hospital, as Christian’s aunt is also there. Dear Mémère! She’d been hospitalized on Sunday, and yesterday, just after 1:00, the staff called the family to her bedside. We were fortunate enough to [...]
This is little 8 and-a-half pound Charles, born on Sunday, to Christian’s cousin Monique and her husband André. He’s very alert, and oh-so-soft! Marie-Hélène kissed him on the head, sometime between her constant moving, moving, moving.
Yesterday, I was on Radio-Cananda (our local french-channel), to promote the Travel Manitoba blog. For 15 seconds of air-time I [...]
So here I sit, wishing to post some recent photo or other, and there’s some technical difficulty I can’t even explain, other than to say that the pictures on my camera are staying captive on my photo card. Our lovely Mac doesn’t want to recognize the gadget it always used to… Christian’s busy on his [...]
John has the most maddening sneeze. It’s the kind of sneeze that inspired the scene in Disney’s Mulan, wherein the pet dragon, after catching a cold and sneezing in a valley, causes an avalanche. John’s sneezes test the solidity of the Manitoba escarpment. They enter our ventilation system and land on Marie-Hélène’s nose. It’s totally [...]
Anna’s here for a visit, and we might just kidnap her. Not physically of course, but perhaps we could convince her to fall in love with a baseball player. And we’d have the best babysitter in the world! Are you sure you still want to go to Australia Anna?
The thing about crazy weeks is that they make you appreciate normal weeks, just like sleeping in another bed makes you appreciate more your own… usually.
To matante Simone, back in Montreal today; big kisses from Marie-Hélène!
Sometime last week, during a phone conversation with Christian, his Mom, hearing we’d come over, said, “Oh good! Jacinta can take a picture of our new counter and put it on the blog!” Before this counter, which is uniformly flat, there was another counter, that was divided in two, a higher part providing a separate [...]
I bought a book on photography, in order to teach myself how to take better pictures. Though I haven’t read it yet, cover to cover, one part in the beginning caught my eye. The author, in the first chapter, encourages you to use the Manual setting on the camera… the one where you adjust everything [...]