Pre-COVID I decided to challenge myself by rewriting fairy tales without using certain vowels: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves became Snow White Plus the Seven Short Guys without any letter A’s, Goldilocks and the Three Bears became Goldilocks and a Trio of Bruins without any letter E’s. They were great fun to write!

During COVID, I published the 6 books (without A, E, I, O, U, Y) as ebooks on Amazon. And now, I’m finally getting around to publishing them as print books. As you can see on the video clip below, I decided to make them two books in one. Another challenge. But I’m thrilled with how the first one turned out!

If you’re interested, it will be for sale in Our Little Bookshop on June 1st.

Now to get busy on the next one!

I finally made it to the end of the year, after two aborted attempts in 2022 and 2023!

In 2024 I encountered 76 different species of birds at the Martensville Dog Park. That is not all the birds that visited the park, only the ones I encountered. I missed both the owls – Great Horned and Northern Saw-whet – that others saw. But that’s okay – it’s fun to keep track of what I do encounter.

If you’d like to see my 2024 list, it’s here.