Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
The blues? It’s the sugar speaking. Or is it the lingering Covid. The good news is that I took this week off to get some garden chores done and, glory be, I did some and, super dooper glory be, the big green truck actually took all the yard stuff I put in the green bin. … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For The Post Easter Blues”
I have traditionally hated February. OK, fine – sure – by “traditionally” I don’t mean that we have special hatin’ on February outfits in my culture and we don’t gather outside in large circles holding hands dancing to hatin’ February folksongs and hatey hymns. Maybe they do that in Manitoba – but not here! No, … Continue reading “The “Whoooot! Yes!! It’s February!!!” Thursday Beery New Notes”
Already we see an ending. The long goodbye, that’s what I say. It’s been quite a week. I went to a pub in another city with old pals for one thing. A cheery sort of dive. We talked about stuff like, you know, the anticipated next LP from The Cars and, umm, how the Trudeau … Continue reading “The Last But Decisive Beery News Notes For January 2023”
Here we are. Christmas Eve… Eve… Eve… because the 25th is Sunday and that screws everything up. The kid still goes to school tomorrow, which is insane. I am sorta off but not off as there isn’t much happening now a week after even the staff Christmas parties are over. And… there’s a HAMMER OF … Continue reading “The Jing-Jing-Jingliest Thursday Beery News Notes Of All!!”
What is up?!? Happy end of July! No one ever says that. I saw back to school ads this week. That sucked. Except the kid will be going back to school. And we had some wicked storms come through this week – a tornado even hit north of here – and now it’s almost sweater … Continue reading “The Last Lingering Beery News Notes For July 2022”
That’s a bit of a bold claim. Death defying. But, having checked the stats, I am 98% sure that no one has died as a direct* result** of reading the weekly beery news notes. I also can confirm that no one has been harmed by reading Taste, the recent memoir by Stanley Tucci.*** It is … Continue reading “The Death Defying Mid-July 2022 Thursday Beery News Notes”
What to do on summer holiday? Now that it is July, I really have to figure out what the second half of August could promise. Not just chores, right? Chores ought to be done by then, done well before the snow shovels and garden hose swap places again. Martyn’s eternal holiday got me thinking about … Continue reading “July 2022’s Very Own First Beery News Notes”
* It’s been a quiet week on the beer front. These things happen. So quiet that Stan as well as Boak and Bailey took the week off. Lollygaggers!!! On the home front… I sneezed. Twelve days into the post-op… schnozzle post-op. And nothing snapped when I went all great white whale . No Penge Bungalow … Continue reading “These Be Your End O’March Thursday Beery News Notes”
This is the week! Santa and everything. So exciting. Last minute shopping opportunities abound even while heads nestle all snug in their beds bothered by visions of some sort. We are as happy for anything around these parts over the vaccination drive through outdoor wintery clinics, as seen above, which are boosting 5,000 people or … Continue reading “Your Very Merry Christmas Edition Of Beery News Notes”
It gets better. We tell our teens that but it is a bit hard to believe sometimes. Like in a pandemic exiting its second year when the sun is well below the horizon. But there’s only a few weeks of this darkness and there is beauty all around even in these troubled times. Up there? … Continue reading “Your Beery News Notes For The Start Of This The Coming Darkest Month”