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This illustration from one of our 1980s calendars features an unusual colouring style, which you only see sometimes in FBorFW! Do you like it?
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Elizabeth dumps autumn leaves over Farley's head, as Michael and John work to rake them into a basket. 🍁🍂
What's your stance on this? Is Halloween best with scary costumes or cute ones? 🎃 🍭
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April is trying on a hideous monster mask for Halloween. She asks Elly, who's holding a bowl of candy, whether she'd get more stuff if she looked adorable or disgusting.
It was difficult to open the mudroom door since my hands were covered in the slimy innards of a pumpkin. It was even harder to hold on to three-year-old Andy’s wriggling toddler body...
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Elizabeth scoops the insides from a pumpkin, smiling.
Do you celebrate Halloween where you live? Do you still like it, now that you're grown up?
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John is at a costume party, dressed as a rabbit. In the buffet line, he turns down an offer of salad cracking up all the other party-goers.
Andy loomed over me. My pinky toe had met the table leg, and I was nursing my wound in the fetal position. “I heard you say '&%@$,'” he whispered, his owl eyes watching me closely.
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A man is shocked to hear his grandson swear at the dinner table.
It's fall in the Northern Hemisphere! We're looking forward to some cooler days and the beautiful show the leaves are going to put on for us! 🍁🍂
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Young Elizabeth, in sweats and a hoodie, catches brightly-coloured autumn leaves as they fall.
September is self-care month. What's your favourite way of looking after yourself? 🦆 🛁
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Elly relaxes in a hot back with a rubber ducky.
Do you remember when Elizabeth got her cat in 2004? Lynn wanted to put a cat in FBorFW, but she wanted a good reason first. Elizabeth was lonely while teaching on Mtigwaki first nation, and one of her students brought her a stray.
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Elizabeth cuddles her kitten, Shiimsa.
I finally enrolled six-year-old Molly in swim class. Class size is limited, so securing a spot is like striking gold. A helpful mom gave me a tip: log into the rec centre website, sit at your computer, and frantically mouse click.
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September 6th is National Read a Book Day! What's the best thing you've read recently? Give us your top three recent favourites! We'll draw a winner later this week; the winner will get an FBorFW Prize Pack.
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Teenage April sits reading a book and smiling.