Prepositions

The ubiquitous plural apostrophe annoyance is being replaced by the realization that many people don't have a clue about prepositions. Today's example is from an article about a local artist who won a well-deserved week in residence at an artsy place. The award was "based off of" examples of the artist's work. It should be "based on", of course. On is the opposite of off, isn't it? I have seen several examples of this use of the opposite preposition lately, and I shudder.
I just remembered another example. The lovely and talented choir Gracenote was said to rehearse "out of" a particular church. No, they rehearse IN a church.
It should be so simple.

starred books this year

I think my last list went up in July, 2011.
So from a year's worth of reading:

Peter Temple, Truth
Timothy Taylor, The Blue Light Project
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
Gregory Maguire, The Next Queen of Heaven
Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took my Dog
Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man
Miroslav Penkov, East of the West
Harumi Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Wayne Johnston, A World Elsewhere
Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies
Jhumpa Lahire, The Namesake
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Ann Packer, Swim Back to Me
Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
Tom Perotta, The Leftovers
Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children
Cordelia Strude, Lemon
Spalding Gray, Journals
Max Barry, Machine Man
Howard Norman, What is Left the Daughter
Max Barry, Jennifer Government
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending , Flaubert's Parrot
Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
Markus Zuzak, The Book Thief
Johan Harstad, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to you in all the Confusion?
Kathryn Davis, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Miriam Toews, Irma Voth
Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

new windows!

cathedral grove

horseshoe bay, on the way to provincials

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singers after the performance

Michael, Reese and Galen, hamming it up a bit.

Christmas dinner at Phil and Jayme's

 Livingstons in the kitchen

Ethan with the desserts

Thomas is 4

southwest corner of the roof is done!

Only about an eighth of the roof to go. Next year.

Scaffolding is down!

Sadie's new bike

Sadie saved her allowance ($2.50 a week) for a long time, and bought herself a new bike. (Hint to other kids out there).

holiday in victoria

thomas the detective

power outage

Grandpa had story time with a downloaded story from his iPad.

We like to be creepy with flashlights. (Grandpa in his new mask).

papa (?) bird

This bird hangs around the nest area with a "peep"............."peep"..........

ongoing car game

The kids have an ongoing car lot game. They would rather that I didn't mess up their white boards by putting them back where they usually go.