When your mom type lady says it’s too smoky outside for a walk and you just wanna know why she hates you.
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When your mom type lady says it’s too smoky outside for a walk and you just wanna know why she hates you.
Thanks, yeah we wanted a way to have summer covid cautious hangouts. Had to cancel or reschedule a few due to bad weather or wildfire smoke, deal with outside noises (including our dog) but overall have been great.
That’s awesome! We started doing backyard summer movies a few years ago when we moved into this house and can’t fit more than 20 people but it’s been so fun.
That’s extra cool.
Fuck yeah! I love her dress and everything about that photo. 💜❄️
Oh hi! Yup, for a couple years :)
Perfect.
Nope, I'm in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada). And I water every day (except for the very rainy days).
Yeah Edmonton is real winter too.
I don't really like kale, but it's still cool :) Our garden boxes are usually covered with snow and ice from October or November- April/May, but I did have a strawberry plant I stuck in the dirt come back to life in May so that was fun. The sage and rosemary I stuck in there too didn't come back.
Impressive!
Excellent.
Exactly.
Beautiful!
That’s annoying, I’m sorry - I had a less successful garden this summer (probably because cool and wet mixed with some hot, and many bugs and creatures eating the stuff).
Not that I know of, I just use a mix of potting soil and a bit of compost, and usually tend to overwater stuff. The heat might be an issue.
Alberta is calling … other firefighters to help with wildfires.
I’ve had good luck with west coast seeds rainbow blend the last few years for carrots. www.westcoastseeds.com/products/rai...
Alberta’s climate plan is to light a match, throw it in some crude oil and walk away yelling WE GOT ETHICAL OIL MOTHERFUCKERS while laughing maniacally as the province and world burns.
I’d love to but we only get May-October (and sometimes just June-September) as gardening season here, unless the carrots can also survive months of snow and minus 10-40 degree temps.
Labour (and neighbour) are the British spellings and the ones used in Canada :)
Those ones are radishes but I did grow beets this year too :)
Nice.
We can give excess veggies to food banks and other local non profit orgs here. My garden hasn’t been as successful this year so we’ve eaten most of the stuff but have given some things to friends and neighbours too.
That sounds amazing, are you able to grow stuff outside during the winter where you are or will it be indoors? We only have about 5 months (if we’re lucky) here for outside gardens.
When you say “covid is over” or refer to the pandemic only in the pastense you make it easy for RFK jr to withhold the vaccines & defund clinics. You make it easy for employers to end paid sick days. When you don’t mask up you make it easy to pass bans. We organize but what you do & say matters too.
Other years, yes to that. This year I did a zucchini experiment (planted in a pot instead of the garden box) and have only grown 3 small zucchinis. And tomato plants aren’t as good this year so have lots of cherry tomatoes but only a few other bigger tomatoes.
Local woman wakes up, celebrates unions and their workers, makes oatmeal.
It’s definitely nastier the closer you get - on one of our road trips from Edmonton to Vancouver a couple years ago we drove quite close to an active wildfire in Hope and it was scary (even the dog knew something was weird).
Cathedral Grove, some of my all time favourite trees.
Yeah the recycling plant was especially bad yesterday, the air smells more typically wildfire smoky today (and it’s annoying that I can tell the difference now after years of this).
Yuck to asthma. My migraines will probably get worse too.
Zen and the Art of Snoozling.
It’s been a cooler and wetter summer than usual in Edmonton but after a week of heatwave, the hazy skies, red sun and poor air quality from wildfires are back.
Get in losers, we’re awakening an ancient curse that will only affect evil humans.
Yum!
I forget, maybe peaches and cream but I think I picked it too early so there may not be much actual corn.
Veggie gardens are unbelievable.
Excellent! There’s probably at least a few people you know on that cast and crew.
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Ok that’s my bad, I did say it was nominated for an Oscar, look at me spreading misinformation. But it should’ve been on the short list for the Oscar, anyway :)
Here’s a link to The Man That Got Away on Vimeo for anyone who wants to watch again (or for the first time). vimeo.com/34316515
Waffles are Sunday and oatmeal is every other day :)
You too!
Because Sunday.
I’ve been singing the songs all morning (badly :), it was lovely see you both as always! ❤️
We missed you and yes he was extra fun :)
The guy on the right in both both of these photos :)
Made in Edmonton backyard movies tonight with The Man That Got Away and The Bike Heist (which also both briefly feature my husband Jeff :)
I’ve wanted one for awhile but couldn’t rationalize the 250-300 cost. But at 78, I could!
The sale ends today and they’re open til 5pm, for anyone interested.
Got a $300 Birds of North America dress for $78 at Red Pony Consignment today and it feels like I robbed a (beautifully flowered) bank.
Definitely not psychic; if so I would’ve booked the whole week off :)
Yup.
Sunbeam neighbourhood watch, even better!
They’re cool centers in the summer and warming ones in the winter … when the AC and heat is working.
I believe that! He’s an excellent writer.
30-34 degrees Celsius all week (86-95ish Fahrenheit) inside the library, sweaty everything. Broken AC plus heat wave.
Well he is his correct pronoun, and oatmeal is the correct breakfast :)
I can neither confirm nor deny that statement :)
My history teacher in high school used to list historical figures as dead or NDY (not dead yet).
Local woman wakes up, reports that he is not dead yet, makes oatmeal.
Yeah … that’s extra terrible.
Not pictured: the refreshing sprinkler we all walked through.
You too!
Ooh nice, love a good lemon sorbet.
Fantastic.
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
Have you watched Beasts of the Southern Wild? One of my favourite films, it’s fiction but basically hurricane Katrina.
I had a half scoop of salted caramel and strawberry this afternoon and then we bought a berry and vanilla/toffee carton :)
That’s cool.
Yup yup.
I thought the blue sculpture really popped with the pink ice cream cartons :)
Every day is bad gut day for me but some are extra bonus bad and today is one of those days. It could be sushi from last night, or any number of other things so oh wells.
It’s a Bad Gut Day but I’m very confident Kind ice cream will help (and even if it doesn’t, I’ll still have delicious ice cream).
I’m not a big Atwood fan but still fully support people reading her books. And I absolutely hate American Psycho (which is included on the recent UCP list even though I can guarantee it has never been in a school library) but also won’t stop people from reading that.
Ruth Wilson is a deliciously evil Mrs Coulter, who is probably my favourite character.
I might add that to her list of nicknames.
Yup. And many kids may not have access to books at home, which is why school and public libraries are so important.
Yup absolutely. And if you read something too advanced at a younger age, the adult bits either don’t register or they are something you can ask questions about or learn from. I’m all for people reading what they want - in whatever format works best for them.
Book banners generally haven’t read most of the books they want to ban.
I’m not super into fantasy but loved that series so much. Dust, daemons, a knife that could cut between worlds - so many great details, not to mention characters and stories.
Atheist authors > Christian authors, in my humble librarian opinion :)
I haven’t checked holds lists lately (also they keep adding titles, probably from American conservatives) so don’t know but probably not much more than normal.
The Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig one was terrible but luckily did so badly at the box office that they didn’t make the other two. The more recent HBO/BBC miniseries was excellent.
Most of the books on the recent list are already available at public libraries.
I have done some interviews since then but still don’t love it … I’m a bit too stream of consciousness for interviews.
Anyways, banning books is pointless and you should read His Dark Materials, if you haven’t already. And any other banned books you want to.
Might have been!
At the very least, good to know what you’re being interviewed for (and could be edited to fit their narrative).
I probably should’ve done some media training prior to that but I definitely learned from my mistake.
That was definitely part of it! Being teen services librarian in Red Deer for 5 years played a big role (and my artist friend gave me the name feisty librarian around then too :)
me saying “I could see how some people might have a problem with the books”, not the part where I went on to say “but that’s no reason to ban them and kids/ parents can decide if they want to read them”. I learned about speaking in sound bites to media after that.
Every recent book banning reminds me of the time in Red Deer in 2006 when Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy was being challenged by the Catholic school division and the news channel interviewed a few people including me (who loves His Dark Materials) but the only clip they played was
I forgot it was a long weekend and I even work full time :) But I’m working one day next weekend and two days the next so yeah I’d love to be retired too :)
Awful on both counts.
We have occasional foxes too.
For lost kids, definitely. For lost dogs, probably not.
Neighbourhood watch.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.