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Summer made simple

Oh, summer! At long last, we bask in warmth and enjoy potluck picnics … and we tackle projects that may be fanciful or practical or a bit of both. The Summer Project is a seasonal response, a call to action for enhancing life in the great Canadian outdoors, like my husband’s driftwood bench with foot rest and side “tables” and an ocean view, amid a sea of blue chicory flowers. Or, in the case of experimental blackberry mead production, a summer project destined many months later for the great Canadian indoors.

It may require many hands and feet to lift a new dock to its watery destination, resembling, as seen from the right angle, a multicoloured human centipede

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