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Bees!

An adrenalin spike made me a little light headed as the two instructors put on their beekeeping “hazmat” suits in preparation to visit the two bee hives behind us. I looked around for the rest of our hazmat suits but was mildly aghast to find out there were no suits for the rest of us.. This is when I first considered what the most opportune way might be to save face while bolting out of there.

We all know we need to support bees these days, right? If you don’t then google “bees” and spend the next few minutes being inundated by the plethora of doomsday scenarios. Ok, are we’re back, and thoroughly depressed? Good. Rather than expanding on this mountain of propaganda I’m going to write about my small experience at a beekeeping class.

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Writing in 2015

Hi All,

It’s been a while!

My priorities clearly haven’t included blogging much. The last time I wrote a blog was this time two years ago (oops!). I love writing and sharing things with you but there just always *blah blah blah excuse excuse excuse*.

I don’t want to set unrealistic expectations of myself so I’m not going to promise anything, but I do intend blogging more this year.

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Sucka**ary Enthusiast

I unscrew the needle plate of my sewing machine with a nickel (I had a tool for this included with the machine but I didn’t realize I had it until after I’d finished). Yes!! It is STUFFED with lint! I thought I was doing well at maintaining my sewing machine but now I see that I totally suck at it. Whoohoo!!!

Suckassary: The act of sucking at doing something.

I, Petra, am a sucka**ary enthusiast.

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Happy New Year 2013

So here we are, 2013, and time to take stock of the past year and start a brand new one. There’s been some heartache this year for us, with the 2 very tragic losses in our family, but there have been some great things as well… and so as not dwell on the negative I will write about the good stuff going on.

Sal Helping
Our cat Sal is helping me work… by finding all the pens and hiding them.

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Band Lightens Mood After Ferry Jumper


Headwater playing “Freight Train” on a BC Ferry (April 16, 2010)

Some months back I had a shocking experience of being on a BC Ferry when someone jumped off the boat. The alarms went off, the ferry swung around and rescued him and took him back to shore for the ambulance to pick him up before we went on our way to Victoria. My fellow passengers and I were reeling after this for the voyage we thought would be peaceful and uneventful. I tried to get back to reading and listening to music but it was hard to shake the heaviness of what had happened. Then I heard something…

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