Sunday, September 28, 2008
A visit with Wiley and Kabu...
I recently had to take a trip to Ottawa. But then I thought – hey, Ottawa is not too far from that other eastern Ontario metropolis – Pembroke! In fact, Ottawa might even be called a suburb of Pembroke! After all, Pembroke is the official Hockey Town of Canada, and what could be more important than...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A Meeting with an Inunnguaq...
What do you do when, on a beautiful, hot summer weekend you cannot ride your bicycle because it’s in the shop; you cannot wangle a spot on anyone’s sailboat because everybody is already out or not going out at all, using the excuse of a paucity of wind as a cover for his real preference, being...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Strictly a One-Night Stand...II
I hope you'll forgive me my obsession with this piece of vegetation, but a few days ago I had written about our cactus – and in writing, I had been wondering whether we would see a flower this year, since our summer has not been of the sort to induce a cactus to think of love. It’s been miserable –...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
Strictly a One-Night Stand...
I have written about her before, our lovely cactus, over four feet tall, who in summer resides on our deck. She’s a Baja Organ Pipe Cactus, stenocereus stellatus, who has been with us for many years and has become a member of the family, which is why she’s not an ‘it’ but a ‘who’, and a rather...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
Naut’s Fabulous Friday Night Scallops...
I feel guilty! I haven’t posted anything of consequence, no series on any of the many topics that interest me, not even a haiku. I haven’t even been able to keep up my practice of responding to each and every of your comments, something I had been doing since my arrival in Blogitville, and vowed I...
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Monday, July 14, 2008
The Reason for My Defeat...Dedicated to Kabu...
It’s clear that Kabu has won the chipmunk contest, as she has pointed out before, on many occasions, and then some... I have been mulling over the reason for my defeat. Seeing that I had a chipmunk feeding out of my hand long before Kabu even knew there was such an animal, it should have been an...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Of Horses and a ‘Crime Scene’...
Work, reading, eating, drinking, working out, living, and taking long bicycle rides to get back into shape are taking their toll on my blogging. I have also found it hard to keep up my usual practice of responding to comments, and I hope I am forgiven, I try to go on a long ride every other day, for...
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Canada and the US...Part IV...CRIME!
We ’ve had money, love (well, at least marriage), religion, sex, and now...crime! That should just about cover it, and it does, at least as far as this mini-series is concerned. It’s embarrassing and shameful, but the truth will out: Canadians are a bunch of crooks! Auto thefts per 100,000...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Canada and the US...Part III (All about Sex)
I thought that would get your attention! As it turns out, Canadians are not just a sinful and godless lot, compared to Americans, but they’re also hornier. At least that’s what these figures show. Per cent who have sex at least once a week Canada: 59 US: 53 Minutes spent having sex per session...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Canada and the US...Part II
One thing that comes across when looking at some of these figures is that, compared to the US, Canadians are a pretty sinful lot. While that did not come as a surprise to me, I was surprised by the US figures, which show clearly that Americans are paragons of virtue by comparison. Consider the...
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