Early in the week, Mike noticed that one of our corn stalks was askew; on Thursday, we figured out why: deer. I found hoofprints in the garden beds and noticed that the corn and beans have been munched. I will go to some level of extreme to save the apples and the tomatoes but the rest [...]
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Archive for July, 2010
My love-hate with self-help
July 26, 2010
The self-help section of a bookstore or library is one of those places I sometimes end up despite efforts to avoid it. While I don’t like to paint any genre with broad brush-strokes, I think I am safe in stating that there are a greater number of pretenders and outright charlatans publishing self-help titles than [...]
Recommended Media
July 23, 2010
It’s just so easy these days to hit “share” and send things out to the wilds of social media that I have been remiss in sharing these wonderful, crazy things. Here’s four names you need to know… 1. Leslie Hall — When I first watched her video for Tight Pants/Body Rolls it was a bit [...]
I wish to register a complaint
July 23, 2010
This morning, I was listening to C-FAX (technically, watching it, as it aired on A-Channel) when Frank Stanford’s Comment ran. As I listened to him complaining about prime real estate being used as a car lot, I was convinced he was talking about the wrong property — if he mentioned an address on air, I [...]
spam-spammity-spam
July 21, 2010
Two months after switching platforms, I can now definitely say that WordPress is better than Blogger at almost everything, including attracting spammers. While there are anti-spam plugins for WordPress blogs, the one that is most recommended is fee-based and while the fee is small, I just don’t wanna pay it on principal. Instead, I just look [...]
Changing a Habit
July 15, 2010
Truthfully, I am trying to change two habits: spending more than I’d like on coffee at work and putting cream in my coffee. I thought that the latter would be the simple part. Not so much. I bought a little Bodum coffee press – 12 oz size. It doesn’t fill my favourite 16 oz travel [...]
Our garden at last
July 10, 2010
It’s had a slow start but finally our garden is starting to give back. After a few hot days this week (three days of record-breaking high temperatures), the plants are happily springing up and spreading out. We have green onions, strawberries, and bok choy (some of which is bolting but we’re using what we can) [...]
Stranded Summer Fiction
July 7, 2010
Well, neither Mike nor I won the Monday Magazine Summer Fiction contest that we entered last month so, as promised, I am printing it here for your amusement/annoyance. Mike also posted his entry over on his blog. Or you can go read the winning entries instead. (Oddly there were only 34 entries which seems low, [...]
Out from the gloom
July 4, 2010
A quick glance through our movie collection and you’ll notice a lot of dark films. Some are really dark — horror films, thrillers, and what we now call the “child endangerment genre” (films in which a child is killed, kidnapped, or otherwise put in harm’s way, causing the parent to go to extremes in order to [...]
Revisions all around
July 2, 2010
Finally managed to revise my Haiku Miscellany book — turns out there was a typo in the subtitle inside the book! GAH! — I didn’t catch it with multiple readings and nor did anyone who saw my proof copy. It wasn’t until the person who catalogued my book pointed it out… at which point I [...]
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