Linda Hoye's Blog, page 26

Friday’s Fave Five – October 21, 2022

I haven’t done a Friday’s Fave Five post in a long time. It’s been another week of home showings and trying to remain patient while we wait for a buyer for our home. It seems like the week has flown by in a whirlwind of shopping, staying out of the house while prospective buyers tour,

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Taking The Long Way Home

The final module of the art class I took this summer asked us to paint a series. I decided to do something I to hang in my new woman cave when we get to Saskatchewan. First step: choose a palette to work with. I picked a limited palette of phthalo turquoise, Naples yellow, cobalt blue

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A Black and White Photo

After a summer hiatus, our writing group gathered via Zoom yesterday to share what we’ve written to the prompt “a black and white photograph.” Here’s my piece. The 3 x 4-inch photograph is blurry, and the lighting isn’t good. In it, a couple stands in front of a porch covered with vines or garland in a

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A Joy-Sparking Walk in the Park

We decide to take a walk after lunch. Just the two of us, sans dogs, so we can go to my favourite city park that’s not too busy, fat with memories, and oh-so-pretty. It doesn’t disappoint. We see a couple of deer. Joy sparker. A man walking with a loud bird sitting on his shoulder.

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Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving Day. (Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October here in Canada.) There’s no smell of roasting turkey, no activity in the kitchen peeling potatoes or roasting Brussels sprouts, no one other than Gerry and me and the pups in the house. Essentially, it’s a day like any other and we’re fine

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Another Day, Another Showing

We’re sitting in the car with the windows open, sipping coffee and enjoying the early autumn view of the North Thompson River. I’ve got two Yorkies on my lap—Murphy, as usual, and Maya because she’s startled by Gerry’s sneezing (it’s allergy season). Meanwhile, strangers are walking through my home, considering whether it’s the one for

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Downsizing

The move we’re making from Kamloops to Moose Jaw brings with it a downsizing the likes of which we’ve never done before. Oh sure, with every move Gerry and I have made over the past 23 years of our married life, there’s been sorting and culling of things, but there has also been an underlying

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Joy Sparkers

I’m stopped at a traffic light waiting for it to turn green. There’s a young man—15 or 16 perhaps—on the other side of the street waiting to cross. It’s about 8:45 a.m. and he’s heading in the direction of the high school. Late, perhaps, as there are no other young people around and he’s clutching

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I’m Ba-ack

I baked the first apple pie of the season yesterday. Today, there’s a sauce simmering on the stove made with a batch of tomatoes that have been ripening on my countertop and oregano Gerry just snipped from the backyard garden. I’m wearing socks and long pants and there’s no point in trying to ignore the fact

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A Fifty-Year Dream Comes True

Fifty-one years ago this summer, my family left the home my dad built with his own hands, with a bit of help from his own dad, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan for a different life in British Columbia. Weeks earlier, Dad had hooked up our Scamper trailer to his white Oldsmobile and headed for BC for

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