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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]

The second week of the Twelve Weeks of Winter Tour de Force has begun. Last week we marked the passage of time with a trip to library, an activity we hope to repeat every week, winter and summer, as long as the facility is available. I don't quite know how we will mark week two.

It was not so cold last night, the temperature only fell to around -15 C. This will give us a chance to build up heat in the house for the coming cold snap; it is predicted that we will see the temperature drop to -35 C on Friday night.

This morning the snow fall is heavy and steady, with no wind to speak of. It is very pretty, but Attila will be busy over the course of the week shoveling snow, fetching wood and building fires, not so pretty for him. I will do most of the cooking during these weather challenged stretches of time.

Today I am making a batch of granola in the crockpot. The refried beans are already prepared for enchiladas, tonight's dinner. I love tea biscuits, so I think I'll try out a fat-free recipe I found, that uses yogurt rather than fat. I'm not entirely optimistic about this recipe for biscuits, but it is worth a try. The biscuits will go nicely with the turkey soup that Attila made yesterday. He used the carcass from the turkey dinner he prepared for Luna, more than a week ago.

I have managed to find the funds to pay that huge bill that was due at the end of December, what a relief. Paying that bill has left us on a very tight budget for the next few months; but at least we are not being charged late fees or interest, which would be rubbing salt in the wound. I like my salt as seasoning.

We received a gift certificate for Chapters, as a Christmas present from our girls. Yesterday I spent all day trying to navigate the Chapters web site via our dialup connection. In the end I ordered a DVD on archeology and the second series of All Creatures Great and Small. Attila and I both regard these choices as winter comfort viewing. Although we do not yet have the DVDs, I suppose I could count ordering as marking Week Two of the Twelve Weeks of Winter Tour de Force .

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Wordly Distractions

The bush as viewed fromt he kitchen window, snowing.

Snowing again, as seen from the kitchen window. I can see the flakes, but the camera didn't pick them up.

Airwaves
La Vie En Rose
Edith Piaf

By The Easy Chair
Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon

Quote
"Someone once said life is hard. I say, compared to what?"
Harvey Mackay

Weather
Condition: Light Snow
Temperature: -8.3°C
Pressure : 102.0 kPa
Visibility: 3.4 km
Humidity: 90 %
Wind Chill: -11
Dewpoint: -9.6°C
Wind: SE 5 km/h

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

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

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