Category: Heather’s Blog

   

I cannot believe that summer is nearly over!  Where has the time gone?  Here’s what we did: There are many small towns in Alberta and this summer we drove through a good number of them.  Some have great places to eat and some did not.  Behold the ‘Chef Salad’ my dad had in one such… Continue reading The Summer of Beer, Music and Automobiles

This month’s book club book was very special for me because it was written by Leanne Shirtliffe.  I’ve been reading Leanne’s blog for ages.  Years.  Eons.  She’s hysterically funny and always manages to make me laugh.  We chatted back and forth on twitter and became friends on Facebook.  I met Leanne for the first time at… Continue reading Don’t Lick the Minivan

Last night, I ran a bath for myself. I filled it with scented bubbles and surrounded it with fragrant candles. I floated there, in the warmth and watched the light dance around me. Snow was falling outside the window as I read and all was quiet aside from the water lapping at my body. This… Continue reading Dear Diary – Spring

There’s one word I typically loathe in marketing copy and tv commercials.  One word I think is so cliche and so over used that it ceases to have any meaning.  This word is used to describe pretty much every product out there and I really wish people would just stop. And so I’m hating on… Continue reading One Word Desribes the Lincoln MKS

Over the past year it seems we’ve used a silly amount of vacuum cleaners.  I quickly learned which features were important (long power cord) and which features aren’t so important (on board tools.)  I realized how important it is to have a machine that you can rely on and which ones let us down. I… Continue reading A Sucky Story – What I thought of Dyson, Roomba, Hoover, Swiffer and Bissell Vacuum Cleaners