Loony Limerick Competition

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This should be fun.

Answering anger

Today’s ponder states:
There are probably some angry people in your life. Angry people like to take their anger out on others. You can get angry back or what are your other alternatives?
Having lived for nearly 20 years with a very angry person, my previous husband, I know how stressful and damaging it is to [...]

How does the stock market work?

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the 
villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out 
to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands 
at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped 
their effort. The man [...]

Blogging Mentor Award

Isn’t this a lovely award I received from Danielle at The Bipolar Diaries
This award is “to recognize and thank those who help us on our path to blogging, be it encouraging and helping us to start blogging or helping us to be the best we can, once we have started.”
She says about yours truly [...]

Keeping warm

I wandered out of the bedroom around 8 a.m and noticed that it was -35C or -30F outside this morning so I nearly wandered back to bed. Instead I threw some more logs on the fire and got it really going. So I thought I would try out the movie capability [...]

Go read the rest

Beautiful tale shared by Benny at Limadang.com, go read the rest and tell him I sent you.

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Meet Misty at My Dogs Keep Me Sane

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Misty has two blogs both have new addresses so if you haven’t updated your blogroll now is as good a time as any.
www.mistysmusings.com
www.mistyswords.com
She would really appreciate it if you would update your links and feed subscriptions
and while you are at it tell Technorati she is a favorite of yours.
She posted a [...]

The early bird caught the worm

Dawn found me, this morning, bundled up on our living room couch dialing the Immigration office. The fire had died down overnight and it was still cold but I felt I had to get an early start of what promised to be a day of constant redials getting through to the Immigration office. As I [...]

Canadian, on hold

We have been landed immigrants since we arrived in 1968, and probably would have remained so, because it was convenient, but because of more stringent regulations regarding traveling abroad we decided it was time to go through the hoops to become citizens. We paid our dues, $550.00, had our photographs taken and filled out [...]

Robin Hood – a shameless promotion

As many of you know my eldest son in a cartoonist. He has worked on the Ed, Edd and Eddy series and George of the Jungle but he always wanted to create comic books and has recently published his first. “Much the Miller’s Son”, and he recently realized that he should have been promoting it [...]