It’s been some time since I’ve been camping. There was a time when I did it two or three times during a typical summer. I’ve decided to take a little roadtrip in early September to the Rockbridge Mountain Music and Dance Festival down in Virginia.… Read More
Take a trip with me down Route 15 with one of Manitoba’s many great fiddle players, Reg Bouvette.
The guy who imports all the smalti mosaic tiles is located not far from us, near Queensway and Royal York here in the west end of Toronto. I stopped in today and bought about 15 lbs of Italian smalti tiles. These are very expensive but… Read More
A week or so ago, George had a sore leg. It hurt him when he went from a lying down position up to a sitting position and when it hurt, he yelped. His vet didn’t see anything serious going on – by the time I… Read More
We’ve been picking tomatoes every day now, and we sure are enjoying them. I especially love tomato sandwiches!
I know this tune as a French Canadian reel, but I think it’s also played in Scotland as The Grand Chain. I don’t now who had it first. I learned it at Midwest Banjo Camp from Cathy Barton Para. It’s curious that a guy from… Read More
The owl used to hang where the giant butterfly now hangs at 27th Street. Today I hung the owl on the other side of the garage. That owl seemed huge when we made it, but the monarch makes it seem as if the owl should… Read More
We finished this new butterfly mosaic the other day…. It has a wingspan of about 19 inches. We made it with shells, broken crockery, ceramic tiles, smalti tiles, pennies, plastic flowers. You can see lots more mosaics at our Long Branch Mosaics page. We do… Read More
27th Street 