Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Life Imitating Art – or Not

    Phew! Now we’ve finished the EMBER’S KISS blog tour – and I have sore fingers from traipsing all over the internet – it’s time to settle back into our usual blog routine. I’ve been doing some thinking and writing some posts and today you get to read the first of them. This is an idea…

  • The Domino Effect

    One of the interesting things about living in an old house is that very few changes are simple. There’s always a cascading To Do list that results from trying to make a single modification. For example, in the spring, we finally found a light fixture for the foyer. Up until now, it’s had what Mr.…

  • Just Peachy

    This week, I’m canning peaches. (Actually, they’re not going into cans – they’re going into glass quart sealer jars.) My mom and I used to can peaches when I was a kid. Usually, it was in really hot weather. Invariably, everything in the kitchen was sticky by the time we were done. It was always…

  • If It’s August…

    …then there must be a bat. Just two hours into the month and we had company. I really could do without hearing that noise ever again – the sound of a bat fluttering against the drapes, trying to get back outside. Ugh. Fortunately, Mr. Math’s Amazing Bat Eviction Method (ABEM) works really well. He entices…

  • Phew!

    Is it hot where you are? It’s hot here and has been hot for quite a while. It’s always hot and humid in southern Ontario in July, but this started in June. Unlike most years, we haven’t had much of a break yet. Usually, we have two or maybe three bouts of very hot weather,…