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Here are a few of my favorite online haunts:

REALTOR.ca
[This is the site I visit to fantasize about living in Toronto again, which is almost every single day during the winter]

Jonathan Cainer's Zodiac Forecasts
[This is where I visit in the morning, when I need a positive spin on things past, present and future.]

Living Local
[This is where I go to see what Canadians are up to, sometimes I even buy things from the businesses listed there.]

Environment Canada Weather
[This is the site I visit every morning, and before every road trip during the winter]

Right now life is a lazy river of contentment. I have three businesses on the go, none of which bring in enough money to support themselves, let alone me, and a family history book that is nearing completion for a friend's family reunion. I'm very busy doing "nothing" and loving it.

Attila has the new supports for the deck stained and that part of his summer project is complete. What remains now is ripping off the siding of the house where the deck abuts, repairing the rot, waterproofing the area and putting the siding back on. Sounds simple, but might not be, it remains to be seen.

I've been baking bread, freezing strawberries and just generally puttering around in the kitchen for the last few days. Attila and I went strawberry picking on Monday, and I've taken on the job of getting them into the freezer for future batches of jam, and making sure we have enough fresh sliced strawberries to top my giant oven pancake. For dinner, for the last few nights, we've been eating giant oven pancake topped with freshly sliced strawberries. To cut down on the cholesterol I used egg whites instead of whole eggs, to very good effect.

I love fresh fruit in season. We grew strawberries on the farm where I grew up, so there is a deep level of comfort and contentment associated with picking and with eating fresh strawberries. Takes me back to being in the kitchen with my Mom.

No one loves you like your mother does!

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maggie@maggieturner.net

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Wordily Distractions

My Granny's Tea Cup

On The Screen
Northern Exposure
Episode: Mi Casa, Su Casa

Quote
"Mother... I project my first love, my first hate, onto her. She is my first mirror."
Sylvia Plath

Weather
19 ° C
Partly cloudy
Wind: SW 7km/h
Sunrise: 5:32
Sunset: 21:07
Relative Humidity: 88%
Pressure: 101.06 kPa
Visibility: 11.0 km
Ceiling: 1000 ft

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner

Canadian Maggie Turner writes and publishes poetry, photography, and a personal journal online. Her work reflects the current way of life in Canada, embracing Canada's past, present, and future in a unique portrayal of everyday life. Maggie's voice is one of the many that actively depict the rich diversity of Canadian culture.

Photography: "a term which comes from the Greek words photos (light) and graphos (drawing). A photograph is made with a camera by exposing film to light in order to create a negative. The negative is then used in the darkroom to print a photograph (positive) onto light-sensitive paper.
Source: University of Arizona Glossary

Poetry: "a form of speech or writing that harmonizes the music of its language with its subject. To read a great poem is to bring out the perfect marriage of its sound and thought in a silent or voiced performance. At least from the time of Aristotle's Poetics, drama was conceived of as a species of poetry."
Source: Creative Studios

Journal: " "Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse, a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot album, a history, a travelogue..., a letter to oneself - it has some definable characteristics. It is a record, an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily daily.... Some (entries) will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the middle of the night.... Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself. Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony, false...." (Dorothy Lambert from Ken Macrorie's book, Writing to be Read )
A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about what you read... as well as what you did on any given day."
Source: Journal Writing

A Blog is an online journal created by server side software, often hosted by a commercial interest.

"The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[4] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging

Lazy River of Contentment

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal Photography Poetry by Maggie Turner

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner