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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Silly
really? i’m assuming that couch is for the hordes of people waiting for a table… It was sheer disbelief that caught us unable to capture the preceding half of the photo above. There, set up on a patch...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Silly – Week 2
silly old duck! where we learned to rhyme… Once upon a time, we would sit ourselves down at 5:55 every Sunday evening in anticipation of that magical moment when the Disney theme song would come...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Surprise
almost uprooted: good thing we believe in the procrastination method of weeding… Across the Bored can’t remember which year it was that Miss Z insisted daisies would be the perfect potted plant swaying...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Surprise – Week 2
mouthguard required One of Across the Bored’s blogger friends made a comment regarding this week’s theme that reminded us of Elmore Leonard’s novel-turned-film “Get Shorty” starring John Travolta, Gene...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Heat
paled by bright sun Sultry summer has definitely softened Across the Bored’s usually manic drive to be productive. After being housebound for the infamous longest winter ever there is nothing better...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Heat – Week 2
modern day hunter-gatherers stalk elusive prey When summer hits its stride in our neighbourhood the pervasive aroma outdoors around dinnertime is one of barbecue. Not your standard throw a couple of...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: It’s up to you, again…
well, that went quickly… Hard to believe that another year has whizzed right by and we find ourselves in the middle of another summer: a summer that crawls in after a too-short spring, gains momentum...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: It’s up to You, again – Week 2
incomprehensibly heart-rending: to think we all made it this far No matter what part of the calendar summer falls in, everyone looks forward to the season with some anticipation. It may be that few...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Blooms
lucky are the bees We swore blind that we wouldn’t do any more gardening the frosty day the realtor hammered the for-sale sign into a snowbank on our lawn. Those of you who have been following the saga...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Blooms – Week 2
we should all be so lucky Just a little something short and sweet as Across the Bored’s current project is taking up way too much of what should have been fun in the sun time. The Two Cents Tuesday...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Events – Week 2
yes, i can sleep with one eye open There are some things in life, that no matter how much we have dreamed and prepared for them, happen all of a sudden. We are thrown into them like it or not and no...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Empty – Week 2
having not played enough as children, city officials create “recreational” installation in downtown core All the action must have been on another street. Just a typical Saturday morning in the middle...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Culture – Week 2
generic airport brekkie fills a need In another lifetime morning used to find us in some sort of airline mode. Bleary from having hot-foot it onto the red-eye or woken at some ungodly hour and barely...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Dirty – Week 2
we all know who has been sitting in this chair… not very inspiring Once upon a time, when we were just two, things didn’t seem to get quite as filthy as they do now. Perhaps that is to be expected as...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Rant – Week 2
punk rock is a joke it’s really just baroque We just don’t have it in us today to go into any long tirades about this or that. The winter winds have whipped their way into our neighbourhood to let us...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Chores – Week 2
looks like he’s found a project Nature has been playing fast and loose with the thermostat recently. We’ve had bouts of intolerable cold book-ended by mini heatwaves, festive flakes followed by dreary...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Lunch – Week 2
half way there There is a huge snowbank in our front yard telling us that it is soup season again. Miss Z has gone to all the trouble of googling a healthy recipe for the 5 pounds of carrots in our …...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Intent – Week 2
Water, consciousness & intent This video by Masaru Emoto, and his related research, sums up much of what we having been trying to pass along lately to anyone who will listen: that it is not so...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Cities
Sherbrooke Street: no edit, no filter, no cropping – just like real life I can’t number the times I’ve walked this stretch, watching it change with the seasons and the years, taking on the vibrancy of...
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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Comfort Food
more please! The Inscrutable Dr. Fu is taking full advantage of the freedom to experiment in my kitchen and likes to put her own twist on what she jokingly refers to as “white people” food. Who am I to...
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