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Yay!

A second post in one day – and so soon after the first – rarely happens around here. Well, it’s never happened around here. But I just discovered something that made me very happy. Rick Mercer has a blog! I’m beyond excited. Immediately bookmarked it. He’s just started and I can’t wait to see more….

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A Riot of Roses

One day, they’re all buds, the next, they exploded into blooms.  

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Woof!

I feel like a dog. Perhaps I should provide a wee preamble. I have asthma, which is triggered by all kinds of smells – perfume and cologne, scented products (lotion, soap, shampoo, etc.), cleaning products, flowers, you mention it. If it has a smell, I’m likely to start wheezing. Especially when my lungs have already…

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Stories of My Father

Updated March 16, 2022 This is my dad, or as I (mostly) called him, far. Today is his birthday. My father was a pretty complex man. He was fiercely intelligent, generous, funny, quick-witted, proud, stubborn, had a wicked temper and a severe case of verbal diarrhea. With the exception of the last few years of…

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My Choice

Stephanie said to pick one and hate it more. I picked, but not exactly in the way she’d intended: I hate weather extremes. (Well, I have a sick obsession with watching anything about extreme weather on TV, which is also why I’ve seen Twister about 5 times and why I wrote down the opening day…

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Summer in the Big Smoke

Too busy trying to breathe to blog. There’s something deeply wrong with being able to see the air.

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Ack!

The forecast for the next several days are temps in the mid-30s, with a humidex of around 40 degrees Celcius. For the Americans around us, that means it’ll feel like it’s a damp 104. Whoever invented airconditioning should be sainted.

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Stuff & More Stuff

No wonder I’ve been gallivanting about, taking pictures of trees and waxing poetic. I’m avoiding something. Namely, spending too much time in my apartment. My place is an absolute tip. I love British slang, in this case because it exactly describes the state of my home: it looks like someone tipped a dumpster in here….

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Contrasts

The first time I saw a honey locust, I was gobsmacked by its elegant beauty. The leaves made of light and air, glowing against the starkness of the contortionist branches. It makes me think of enchanted sprites, treed by day, dancing in the moonlight when the world’s asleep.

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My European Vacation

To start things off, I got my summer clothes out of storage (helped/hindered by The Supervisor) and then I took a trip to Europe, without leaving the city. First, I went to Greece. Well, it was actually a fountain, but it could pass for the Aegean Sea and I was eating souvlaki. The next stop…

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Follow Your Nose

I was reading a book in the park, enjoying the obvious: reading a book in the park after months’ worth of freezing various appendages off just thinking about being outside. I’ve found a place next to some wooden benches and a picnic table that smells divine when baked by the sun – brought me right…

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QOTD

This “Quote Of The Day” comes courtesy of a telephone conversation with Michele: Her: I need to call George Bush. Me: The President of the United States? Her: Yep. Me: er… why? Her: They’ve been found. In Ajax. (Ontario) Me: Wha…? Her: Weapons of Mass Destruction. I’ve found them! Me: You did? Her: Embodied in…

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