Attila the Mum

I am all for letting creatures be. I actually mostly don’t discourage creatures. I have a service berry bush that I planted for the birds. I have milkweed in the garden, that although I did not plant it, I have kept for the butterflies.  My strawberries are a favorite with the local chipmunk and he…

I try not to let fatalistic ideas colour my thoughts, but when it comes to me and wearing white (actually, any pale colour) fatalistic is inevitable. I am doomed. My parents have joked for my entire life that if you were to dress me in white and place me in an impeccably clean room, I…

Due to unplanned circumstances we found ourselves needing to replace the family vehicle.  Being a family of six plus two dogs, our family does not have a lot of selection (Ooo look!  We can pick this minivan or…that minivan).  On a lark we thought we would look at a pick up truck.  Maybe trucks can…

A beautiful warm day and I am looking for reasons that will keep me outside instead of tackling the ‘need to do’s that are waiting for me inside.  My blank edifice of a fence calls to me, “Deani….Deani…look how blank and boring I am…you MUST remedy this….Deani…Deani…it is spring, I need some colour…”  (I figure…

I will say that after winter there are so many things that I am really wanting to do that I know later in the season won’t hold the same appeal.  I have my list of ‘I can’t wait to do’s.  I know I have reached a different part in my life because I was truly…

My son and husband do not appreciate my tea cup.  It is one of those mini thermos travel cups.  Mine has a switch that I can flip to open or close the drinking valve.  I occasionally forget to close it and that is inevitably when the cup gets knocked over, glugging it’s contents everywhere.  That…

My family has two phrases that frequent our banter.  One is “…and that is why we don’t have nice things” and the other is “…AND you ruined Christmas.” I am not very good at following traditions.  I like Christmas trees (real ones) but I do not like to get one, decorate it, or take it…

My dog is either magical or has a grasp of the universe far above us mere mortals. She seems to be able to adjust her mass. When she has settled on the bed, be it before I have crawled in or when I have not yet gotten up, she becomes immovable.  Blankets cannot be pulled…

The snow is beginning to melt.  The solid masses that line our road sides are diminishing in size.  The melt water flows beneath these urban iceburgs and creates dirt infused ice shelves.  The perfect atmosphere for stomping.  Stomp, crackle, stomp, crunch, stomp, sploosh, stomp, pock… that is me ice stomping while I walk.  Enjoying the…

I had an epiphany.  For many, many days, years of days, I have tried to figure out why jeans hanging half way down the back of a person’s legs was fashionable, appealing, a desirable look.  Never having been very fashionably inclined myself, and also being a generation older might have some effect on my ability…