Spontaneously yesterday afternoon, Rob and I took off to a neighbouring town, over an hour’s drive away. So relaxing. Nipigon is much smaller than Thunder Bay but it’s a pretty town on a lake (Lake Nipigon. Lol). A little hilly with a main street full of flowers and wooden carvings. Playgrounds and splash pads. And a little Chinese restaurant and bar where we had some delicious food. Along the highway bracken had started to turn yellow and brown but some fields were a surprising lush green, others packed with tall corn. Our tunes played low and wind whipped through the slightly open back windows as we chatted. I had been dubious about us spending much time together on my holidays, especially when Rob took a morning off work to help deal with our broken freezer. So this break together (his idea) pleased me on many levels. We came home to a bag of fresh home made perogies from Dad and my step-mom in our mailbox. Scrumptious! Rob caught most of his Blue Jays baseball double headers (and they won both so a double bonus!) and I puttered around on the computer. We had both watched the 9/11 live service that morning so the escape to Nipigon then an easy relaxing evening seemed the perfect way to balance the heavy emotion. I changed my mind about the last line of my daily haiku today as soon as I’d written in my Moonology Diary. But I didn’t want to cross it out so I just posted it to instagram like that. I recorded it in my computer file as being changed (as you see it below.) It happens sometimes. A friend posted an insightful Mary Oliver poem (is there anything such as an uninsightful Mary Oliver poem?) on instagram. I responded with a thank you for starting my morning with Mary Oliver and Marion said that she loves Mary’s poems for their understatement and specificity. My incident today reminded me that I’ve become too loose and non-specific with my haiku perhaps. Day 255 Together, windswept, bright splashes of memory *lakeside reflections *Changed from reflecting lakeside Day 12 of Effy’s blogalong
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PUFF
9/12/2021 11:49:44 pm
Where in Thunder Bay?
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Sue Blott
9/13/2021 08:45:30 am
Westfort. Do you know someone who lives here? (Ontario Canada)
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Sue Blott
9/13/2021 08:46:38 am
I agree, Donna! Thank you re the photos and for reading. <3
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Angela F
9/13/2021 03:16:23 am
Sounds like the perfect day ..... we need more days like those! xoxo
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Sue Blott
9/13/2021 08:48:08 am
Absolutely, Angela! They are like gold. Thank you for reading and commenting. <3 xx
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Sounds like quite a lovely day.
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I am a simple woman, I see pierogi - mouth waters - stomach decides at 22:20PM, that now is the time to get the cheese for pierogi, tomorrow, we feast! I also admire that you write a Haiku every single day - to me, it's a really difficult form of poetry, and I actually do like how your revision reads - in terms of being more specific I think objective achieved
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