Saturday was beautiful and sunny, about 26 degrees and absolutely delightful when we went out for a bike ride.  I was talking to my friend Laila and heard that she had spent the day at Scheveningen where everyone was already swimming!  I couldn’t believe it, normally I wait until July before I head to the beach but if the Dutchies …

First, let me apologize if you came here looking for info on fishing in the Netherlands.  I got squat.. nada.  Other than this photo, which I took yesterday during a bike ride near Groene Kruisweg in the south of Rotterdam. I stopped to take a photo when I saw these people fishing, because it looked nice and also because I …

It occurred to me today that this month is the 14th anniversary of mine and Spencer’s life together.  He has been with me from Prince Edward Island, to Toronto and finally over here to the Netherlands. I found him in 1996, I was 21 and had just moved out of home for the first time.  I was in a small …

As I mentioned in my last Veggie Files update, patience is not something I have a large supply of.  I got really tired of waiting for lettuce to show up in my lettuce pot, so I stuck a few seeds a bit more shallow in the pot with my cucumber, and whattya know!  A few days later, I have lettuce …

The map was created with my favorite handy dandy My Tracks application for Android. Today my husband and I went on a nice long bike ride around Rotterdam.  He was finally over his throat infection, I was over my minor cold and the sun was shining again… it was time to get out there!  Initially we planned on a short …

Oh you didn’t think I was the one running, did you?   Surely you know me better than that! This morning we decided to take the dogs to a nearby area that is enclosed where they can run off their leads.  We were up early and it was a rather miserable day so we were confident that we’d have the …

Today me (middle), Penny (right) and Laila (left) got up bright and early and went into the city center to see the new Sex and The City movie.  We chose to go early on a Saturday so that they could arrange child care and we’d have time for lunch and shopping afterward.  I won’t get into too much about the …

A while back I got a package in the mail from Xander’s step-mother which included seeds for growing cucumber, lettuce and beans.  Not just any old kind, but the urban kind for people like me without gardens, they can be grown on the balcony!  By gardening idiots like me! Last week I dug out some pots and got my hands …

Before you click play, be warned, there is swearing and sexual content.  If you are a prude or are easily offended, time to move along. Now that I got the disclaimer out of the way… BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  *Deep Breath* TEEEEEEHEHEHEHE  *Doubles over*  Oh my god, I’m never going to look at Baze the same again.  Neverrrr, in my mind he’ll always …

A few weekends ago my husband came in from walking the dogs and said “You might want to grab your camera, there’s some kind of motorcycle thing going on across the street!”.  The sound of motorcycles is nothing new here in Rotterdam, especially in this area.  So I didn’t even notice the sounds of them coming and going, but I …

One day I was looking through some craft websites and saw these friendship bracelets.  Suddenly I was 12 years old again and itching to make some.  I thought back to the day when I was a kid and making bracelets with gimp was all the rage, man I loved that stuff. I decided to start with an easy pattern to …