Dear Mother Nature,
What’s with the snow? I woke up this morning and this is what I saw out my dining room window. I must say, I was somewhat confused. It would appear that there has been some sort of miscommunication here. I SAID winter was over for the year, remember? Spring is coming, winter is [...]
Spencer’s not the only one to enjoy the sun that comes into our living room in the morning these days. The dogs have taken to lazing around in it as well.
As promised, Rotterdam didn’t see any snow this weekend! It’s still sunny and beautiful just like I planned. Only 13 days now until the official [...]
This lady definitely made the best of the recent snow here in Rotterdam. When we saw her coming we initially thought she had a kid in the sled, but when she got up close we realized it was her groceries. We told her how clever we thought it was and she said she figured [...]
This is the weather forecast for Rotterdam for the coming days. The top bit is the weather conditions here this morning. ONE HUNDRED FREAKIN’ PERCENT HUMIDITY. You can literally see the air, you can feel it. It’s disgusting. This is summer in the Netherlands.
This weekend I was in Friesland with my photography club. We [...]
April doet wat hij wil is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands. It means “April does what it wants”, and boy does it! A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it. We go from days [...]
That’s how long until the first day of Autumn. It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either). I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry. Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I [...]
Today I was in a great mood at work, which was pretty remarkable considering it was a Monday. On my lunch break I started realizing the world was working against me.
No, that’s a lie, I really started noticing it on Saturday.
We were leaving our flat and the sun was shining. I commented as we were [...]
Today I crashed our payroll database at work… oops!! I won’t get into how one manages to do that but it’s not that difficult, I mean I managed to do it easily enough! I was a bit worried when my colleague told me I had done it, but then all the girls in my department [...]
A few years ago, actually… more like 15 years ago (ugh!) my friend Peggi and I went out for a drive and were looking for some nice places to take pics. We drove about 15 minutes away from home and found these really nice waterfalls tucked in off an old dirt road. [...]
I have a PERIOD KEY!
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No more cutting and pasting! It’s wonderful! How do I have a new period key? It’s one of many new keys on my NEW LAPTOP!
I know, this story just keeps getting better and better doesn’t it?
It’s a Sony Vaio FJ Series and the things I love about it [...]
Well I made it through the hitlergolf and managed to sweat myself off another 2 lbs, go go gadget heatwave!! Maybe I should move to some tropical island and all I’d really have to do is drink a lot of water so I don’t die, as I’d sweat every time I moved and lose weight [...]
HITTEGOLF – When I first saw this word today the first thing that came to mind was Hitler, don’t ask me why. I’d probably have the same reaction if I heard Hitler was coming to the Netherlands next week though. So I’ve decided to create another Canadutch word (along with Hubbetje and the [...]
What is it with men and their ability to sleep through anything? Last night we had the worst thunder and lightning storm I can remember in a long time.. I leaped up out of my sleep, ran around the house closing windows and came back into the bedroom. I stood [...]
It’s been raining for the past few days in the Netherlands, which is a bigger threat here than in a lot of other places in the world. The Dutch struggle constantly with water because a large part of the country below sea level and is reclaimed land. They’ve come up with an [...]
I’m in Den Haag now in the beginning of my eight day petsitting gig with Gus and Ike. They are both snoozing soundly on the sofa at the moment while I sit here with my feet up watching the pre-show of the MTV Movie awards. It’s approximately 28-30 degrees outside here at the [...]
Today it was a whopping 27 degrees here in Rotterdam, and we don’t have our screens on the windows yet. Whew, it’s warm in here! We can’t open the windows wide because of the animals. I’d hate for one of my little fluffies to end up taking a three story drop. [...]
Yesterday I was talking to a friend and showing him some pics of Cape Breton when I found this pictures online of North Sydney, the town I come from. I felt homesick but it didn’t take me over like it would have in the past. It’s been so long since I’ve lived [...]
Project Home Reno is a go. We’ve sucessfully stripped every scrap of wallpaper from our apartment, Xander has sanded the door/window frames and I am in the process of painting them white. Soon there will be no more pink!! I just sit in the livingroom now, looking at the door frame leading [...]
It’s sunny in Rotterdam today, for the first time in too damn long. I feel rejuvinated, I feel alive! Xander says I’m like a little rechargable battery, I go out in the sunlight and he can almost hear the hum of my body recharging. How strange huh?
We’re going into town shortly, [...]
I just saw this article I had to blog again immediately.
The is what the article says:
Call it rhino winter blues – a pair of rhinoceroses in a Dutch zoo are being given sunbed treatments to make up for the lack of sunlight during the cloudy winter months.
Rhinos Jennifer and Petra don’t like the gray Dutch [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
