Monday,
January 5, 2009

Settling In

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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]

It snowed softly for most of the day. Attila and I are settling in for the next three months of winter.

First on my list for today was domain renewals and cancellations. This was accomplished without any problems.

Next on my list was bread baking. Yesterday I just did not feel up to the challenges of baking bread. Today I forced myself to get started, a bit like priming a pump. The bread turned out to be the best yet, made in the new Bosch mixer. The two loaves had a good rise, crumb and were delicious. These loaves were my first real success with the new mixer. I was beginning to think that the magic wouldn't happen. But it did happen. It always takes time to build a relationship with new equipment.

My quiet day ended with a quiet evening. Mist was very contented to sit quietly keeping watch over her humans, as Attila and I quietly read in our easy chairs.



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RECIPES :: Cast

Wordly Distractions

On The Screen
Northern Exposure



By The Easy Chair
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy



Quote
"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Japanese proverb



Weather
Condition: Light Snow
Temperature: -5.8°C
Pressure: 101.4 kPa rising
Visibility: 8.1 km
Humidity: 78 %
Wind Chill: -12
Dewpoint: -9.1°C
Wind: SW 15 km/h
 

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Photography
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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


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