Part 2: THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T

  After a less than perfect Christmas which passed through New Year’s and into mid January, I was finally starting to get over the flu.  There was only a couple of days left before Lennie was leaving and we filled our time with plans to return to Mexico for what...

THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T

Today marks 3 weeks that I have had the flu – the worst flu that I have ever known.  It has just started to leave my body, but the lungs are still sore and weak.  I ran myself down with months of stress that culminated with trying to make the perfect Christmas...

I WILL WRITE SOON…….

This is just to let everyone know that I have been very, very ill since Christmas.  I am slowly recovering and will give you an update in a couple of days on ‘The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t’  -things could not have got much worse if I had tried. ...

LENNIE – HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

If the saying, “Home is where the heart is” is true then Lennie is coming ‘home’ tomorrow.  It has been 5 weeks since I left him in Hawai’i and in less than 16 hours I will be picking him up at Toronto Airport.  How will he look?  After 5...

LENNIE’S DIET

The following is the diet that I have Lennie on.  I had written it up when I left Hawai’i so that both he and his daughter Malia would have a regular routine to follow, making this diet a bit easier to follow. On getting up:  1 glass of water with fresh squeezed...

MY 9th ANNUAL HOLIDAY STUDIO TOUR

This is just a quick blog to remind everyone that the 1st weekend in December each year is when I host my annual Holiday Studio Tour – www.holidaystudiotour.com   Although I could not manage to publish a new Christmas print due to Lennie’s health crisis...

LENNIE’S PROGRESS REPORT

As I watched Lennie walk out of the airport I felt a pain in my heart as the tears welled in my eyes.  I was finally leaving to go back to Canada and I was going without him.  Last week Lennie got more blood tests.  His iron count is still way too low and his CEA...

IN MEMORY OF ‘LUCKY’

Lennie and I buried Lucky this morning.  Lucky was a little black, Lionhead fish that I had once rescued.  Several months ago he was stuck between two rocks that he had swam between and become wedged.  When I saw him there I moved one of the rocks and he floated to...