Just last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a two day conference in Vancouver. It was hosted by Blissdom Canada – the group that had, up until its last year, put on the biggest blog conferences in Canada. I haven’t gone to many blog conferences, so I’m always...
This is the last post in the greenhouse series, and it is by far the most satisfying one. The greenhouse is done! I know. I can’t believe it either. On March 22nd – according to Mr. Suburble’s photo gallery on his phone – this was a big dirt pit. And now it’s...
When I last left my chatter about the Greenhouse Project, the greenhouse looked nothing like the photo you see above. It looked much more empty – more skeletal. It looked like this: Mr. Suburble and I were slightly daunted by our windows and how we would frame in the walls, but we were...
When we last left off with the Greenhouse Project, Mr. Suburble and I had worked our chiseled biceps out by churning concrete in a wheelbarrow. And when I say, “Mr. Suburble and I”, I mean that he did all of the mixing, and I stood around and flexed. Concrete mixing is really...
The other day, Lila was all in a huff because she had declared to her friends that “Blue was best.” And in typical life-goes-this-way form, a friend declared, “No, GOLD is best!” After wiping away the tears of frustration, Lila and I talked about everyone having their...
So you’re thinking, “How can this be a butter chicken dish if it’s vegetarian?” Well, the trick is butter chicken sauce… and chick peas. Is there a word for butter chicken sauce without the chicken? Butter sauce? Nope. That sounds wrong. So vegetarian butter...
When I was young and fearless and fell in love with nearly everything, I rode horses. It started when I was 8 years old. My friend, Alycia, started taking horseback riding lessons. And the realization that this was even a possibility was blowing my mind. “You can ride horses? EVERY...
Last year, I drove for three hours into BC’s interior to attend a new kind of blogging/digital marketing conference. I had only attended one conference prior to that, and I was quaking with nerves as I drove along the highway. I wouldn’t know most of the...
