( Read more... )

My coworkers had a bit of an adventure today ( Read more... )

And so it was back to work yesterday (for now, anyway. Damn mill closures). Today saw us in a massive block that not only did not contain any pine trees (the species that would be modified), but seemingly filled with nothing but devil's club, a horrible plant with whippy stalks covered in spikes that are just waiting to embed themselves into your ( Read more... )

Mousie made another appearance at the store on Tuesday, this time under the gift bags. No, Mousie, leave the paper products alone ( Read more... )

On my way to work this morning, I found myself behind a yellow pickup truck, the back of which was filled with tools and debris and...something. I stared at it, trying to figure out what the thing was. It seemed to be furry. It was...a deer. A dead deer, with what could only be described as massive head trauma ( Read more... )

My drive to work takes me past a variety of farms and ranches. Today, while driving past said ranches, I noticed that one of them had miniature horses! I admit that I shrieked like a twelve-year-old. When I was a kid, I had a book called Smidge, the World's Smallest Horse, about, well, Smidge, the world's smallest horse. I thought this was the ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about the bear ( Read more... )

Things I Learned at the Vancouver Aquarium:

1)Seals are fast.

2)Dolphins are faster.

3)Sea otters are always adorable, even while shredding the flesh of molluscs.

On Friday night I encountered a skunk. It was just ahead of me, waddling purposefully up the sidewalk. I lagged behind it until it veered off into the neighbour's yard. As I went past, it raised its tail at me, fortunately, it was neither an overtly aggresive nor nervous skunk, and it calmed down when it saw that I wasn't stopping. That would ( Read more... )