June 29 - Sunny Times At Thetis Lake Lead Rosetta To Want To Sample The Many Beach Toys On Display In The Water

Hey, flamingo girl
Mind if we try your floatie?
How nice she's willing

June 28 - Me And My Agile Companion Work Our Way South Along The Rocky Shore From Oak Bay Marina Almost To The Golf Course

I'm in foolish shoes
for scrambling along this coast
Ankles, don't fail me

June 27 - A Fast Work Trip To Vancouver Scores Me A Harbour Flight On A Beautiful Day

Splendid sea plane views
Best enjoyed when someone else
is footing the bill

June 26 - Our Little Foursome Heads To Esquimalt Lagoon So The Beach Bunny Can Indulge Her New Taste For Wild Water

Is it just one week
since the ocean waves scared her?
Now she drags Paul deep

June 25 - I Drive To Woodgrove Mall For An Overdue Visit With Gayla And Vicki, In Which We Shop The Markdowns

Two years of catchup
We manage it well, shuffling
through department stores

June 24 - Owen Right Now

Seven is the age
when you sing "Muffin Man" and
long for gangsta hats

June 23 - In The Absence Of A Great Indoor Play Park, We Hang Out In A Toy Superstore While The Rain Falls

Does Toys R Us know
that we're playing with their stuff?
Waiting for sunshine

June 22 - A Long And Warm Pool Swim With The Kids And Then A Cold And Damp Walk In Oak Bay

Rain or shine, we walk
Tonight, it's rain. Gloomy beach
has its own appeal

June 21 - Encouraged By Owen's Enthusiasm, I Turn Right Down The Poorly Marked Public Beach Entrance On Our Morning Walk And Scramble Down To A Place I've Never Been Before

Solstice jellyfish
Washed up on our secret beach
Victims of high tide

June 20 - A Good Day At Gyro Park

Rosetta gets brave
Comforted by Owen's fort,
she shakes off sea fears

June 19 - Grandchild No. 5 Arrives For A Two-Week Holiday And A Break From

I drive north for O
We buy Magic cards. He picks
the red Planeswalker

June 18 - A Day With Nothing Important To Do, No Pressing Place To Go, And Indecisive Enough Weather That No Summer Guilt Is Triggered

Finally, guitar
A day with enough spare space
to do as we please

June 17 - What Kind Of A Guy Actually Believes Two Women When They Tell Him They'll Be Done Their Second-Hand Shopping Quickly?

An hour, we say.
Ha. Paul paces with Rosetta
then we eat sushi

June 16 - And Finally, The Paid Work Starts Up And I Begin To Feel Like All Will Be Well

Billable hours
make me smile. Money's not all
but it's nice to have

June 15 - Dyson Benefits From A Peninsula Outing Timed To Help Rachelle Get In A Visit To The Mall

Sun beats out the rain
We walk Island View, prepping
for some night shopping

June 14 - Just When We Thought The Day Couldn't Get Any More Exciting Than Blue Cement Fish And Giant Green Sea Monsters, A Hen From One Yard Over Pays A Visit

What brings you here, chick?
She mutters worriedly, but
enjoys the duck grain

June 13 - My Eye Sharpens For An Uphill Parking Space Or One At The Start Of The Line Now That Backing Up Is An Increasingly Worrisome Activity

The world's a new place
when your car's reverse gear dies
Eyes forward. No choice

June 12 - My Careful Personal Inventory Of Every Set of Swings And Bouncy Device In The City Continues As Paul Goes Away Again

When summer is done
I will know all the playgrounds
Slid down all the slides

June 11 - The 25th Anniversary Party Gives Us Another Excuse To Hang Out With Our Favourite One-Year-Old

T&D surprise
I eat bright-green olives and
walk Ms. R around

June 10 - In Which I Get Deeper Into A Situation That Is Arguably None Of My Business, Yet Can't Be Avoided

Intense backyard talks
followed by a great reuben
Worlds of worry here

June 9 - A Terrible Experience, And Worse For Being Familiar

Everything went well
until it didn't. My heart
still pounds in my chest

June 8 - Another Day In Which I Am Not Sure Whose Life I'm Living, But It's Certainly Bringing New Experiences My Way

Haircut for Dyson
Sex work discussion. Baby.
Night: We walk the beach

June 7 - The Two Rs and I Don't Let A Little Grey Cloud Keep Us From A Very Nice End To The Day At Pebble Beach

The bird bid goes well
Then a beach picnic, feeding
butter buns to crows

June 6 - You Don't Fully Appreciate How Much Your Routines Define You Until You're Living Someone Else's

Sometimes housesitting
is like wearing strangers' skin
Where has old-me gone?

June 5 - Could It Be That My Role Is To Lure Babies And Poodles Closer To The Sea?

Two ocean vignettes:
Dyson, chasing deepish sticks
Ms. R, just not sure

June 4 - We Make The Most Of A Few Hours Of Being In The Same City To Have A Hip Urban Experience On A Beautiful Day

Vancouver with sun
is always a show stopper
Paul and I walk 4th

June 3 - In Which I Get Lost In Surrey And End Up Sitting At Blenz Coffee In The Surrey Rec Centre For Three Hours. But At Least I Make The RFP Deadline

Eyebrow duties call
Though timing's bad; I finish
the bid at Guildford

June 2 - Burning The Midnight Oil On Something That's Unlikely To Be Successful, Though Let's Hope Futile Effort Is Rewarded In Some Distant Time

This damn RFP
Keeping me up much too late
And still it's not done

June 1 - Dog Walk: Check. RFP Developed A Little Further: Check. OK, Rosetta Time

Mornings are for work
Afternoons are for Ms. R
who fears eyeglasses

May 31 - Plugging Away On A Bid For Work That Seems Highly Unlikely To Go Anywhere, But Still Necessary To Try For

Writing RFPs
would be more fun if you knew
you'd be successful