That's the way it sounds.

         My Mom used to tell me that my Grandma refused to pronounce my name
         Caron (care-en) like the name Karen.  Instead, she called me Car-on (like the
         automobile) because that was the way the name was spelled.  I never really knew
         my feisty Scottish Grandma as she died when I was three.  I have one faint
         memory of sitting on her knee at the kitchen table as she buttered some toast.

                                                      Grandma and Grampa Christie

         As a young girl learning to read, Mom and later my teachers would say "Just
         sound it out".  Well that was easy for words like cat and bee but what about
         knee, though and doubt?  And those homonyms are crazy; sew, so and sow;
         waist and waste and to, too and two!  The English language is a challenge with
         its prefixes, suffixes, phonetics, I before e except after c, silent letters,
         homophones and so much more.

                                                                       Google image

         I decided to write this blog using "bad phonics" just for fun.  I will spell the
         words as they sound.  phonics: "a method of teaching people to read by
         correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing
         system" Oxford Dictionary

        April waz an emoshunal munth for pepole evryware seteling in to noo wayz
        to get thingz dun, praktising soshal distansing as they vencherd out and
        mentilly graspt thu enormitty and impact uv thu pandemic Covid-19.
        Growing and karing fore seedlingz wuz an activity I and a numbur uv frendz
        enjoyed.  Thu springlike wether uv March wuz followed by a very kold and
        damp April, with kondishuns that did not loor wun owtside.  Even in thu
        kold, thu Spring bulbz gave promis, Purrenialz apeerd frum thu depths
        uv wintur and thu treez wer bejoold in fresh variashuns of jade, amber and
        garnet.  It wuz a grate yere for wild viletz and vinka.

                                                   getting used to covid-closures

                                                 seeing the world through Covid-lenses

                                                         rhubarb peeks out of the soil

        At the end uv April we receevd grate nooz that our kitchun wuz redy to be
        installd.  Chris and Mike unhookt and movd thu applyanzez.  I krakt off thu
        old tilez.  Mike proseeded with thu sink pluming wile Chris repared thu
        seeling and put in thu ten pot lites.  Then Mike and Chris ript owt thu Kounter
        and cubords.

                                         Sadly found some Dixie fur behind the dishwasher.

       Plaster xpurts finishd thu wall and ceeling, redy for Chris and I to paynt.

       Thu wood floorz wur installd kompleeting thu airya.  Thu electrishun hookd
       up thu wirz to thu too boxez.

       Dan arrivd a fue dayz later and pozishuned thu cabinetz, kountertopz,
       droarz and pullz and farmerz sink.

 

 

       Thu finel peece and crowning glory wuz thu live-edge mapul kountertop on
       the iland.  We r still waiting on 6 dorz frum Muntreall.

        With planz drawn up in Novembur, between wun thing and anuthur, we
        fynally had owr noo kitchun and we luv it.  Woo Hoo!  It wuz a plezhur to
        cleer owt all thu dishuz, pantree, potz n panz frum the living room and stoodio
        and fill the cupbordz and droors redy for kookin.

                                                         door knobs are all different 

                       MAY brot lots uv kritterz and kuller to our yardz.

 

                                                  first time growing bulbs in planters

                          Dixie's birthday would have been May 5.  Bulbs decorate her grave.

                    Red-capped Sparrow taunted us for three weeks pecking at all our windows.

                                                     Luckily, finally found a mate.

                                                  Mother's Day flowers & bath bombs

                                                              Brian and Brenda

                                   They are selling hand grenades in the produce section!?

                                                    Flora gets a new tree (Crabapple)

                                            Why are the most annoying critters so cute?

                                       Trilliums,Ontario's official flower and sign of Spring

                                                      same Trilliums with a sunburn

                                             first time I have seen my Wild Holly in bloom

                     Thank gudness, all iz well in Oz!  Distenss iz tuff in timez like this!

                                                   Dani and Al working through Covid.

                              Dr. Dani and her team save this sweetie with a tricky surgery.

                                              This cutie will be One Year Old next week!

                        Francis was lucky to get a short visit in before the airports closed down

                                                               trouble brewing

                                                       jumpers for Australia's winter

                              Covid disappointment: wee doo not no wen we will visit them agen!