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The End of a Crazy Week

A week ago last Friday as I was leaving work, I received an email from a friend asking if we would consider selling our house. Juliette and I had been talking about moving next year, so I sent him a quick email saying we would talk about it over the weekend. The house on Rossmore […]

Yellow Bike Ninjas

Our experiment as a one car family is surviving the bitter cold that winter has thrown our way over the past couple of weeks. Juliette and I have been taking turns riding into work and we have only been taking the car when we have to be out late or have stuff to pick up. […]

The Beauty of Urban Decay

The first thing I do most mornings after checking my email is to catch up on various online sites. One that I visit daily is Smashing Magazine, a blog about graphics and design. This morning they posted an article about The Beauty Of Urban Decay and when I read it, I was surprised to discover […]

A Chalet in Ellicottville

Juliette, Daisy and I went down to Ellicottville, NY this weekend and we came back with a new chalet. It is a gorgeous A-frame ten minutes north of Ellicottville. It has three bedrooms, two baths and comes furnished, so we hope our friends will be visiting often. It is less than two hours from our […]

Introducing Daisy Dawg

Daisy, the new addition to our family arrived on a flight from Seattle yesterday. It was a trying time for both of us. I arrived at Air Canada Cargo just after her flight landed to pick her up. I was told that she wouldn’t be off the plane for another 40 minutes, so I waited […]