The RCMP horses aren't going to be found patrolling Parliament Hill any more. Apparently people today are too pig-ignorant about animal safety to lay off pulling on horses' tails or running up behind them to allow the officers and their mounts to wander about the popular tourist site. A corral behind the buildings is the only place you'll likely ( Read more... )

So, it's two days before Christmas and, wouldn't you know?, youngest comes down sick to her stomach. So I've been up for over two hours now and done a load of laundry into the bargain. Today will be, er, um, interesting. Thankfully, Mike's off for his Christmas break already so he can run those last few errands and all while I sneak down to the ( Read more... )

Random link spotted in the top bar of my Gmail (yay for weird RSS feeds):

Creamy Spam Broccoli Casserole

Sounds like something right out of a seventies cookbook. (Except that the broccoli would be frozen.) This hit just about every single one of my poor husband's least favourite foods. . . . So, who's going to give it a whirl?

Wow! I've gotten a slushy diet Coke from the cafeteria. It's nothing special in the bottling, just an overactive cooler. But, oh, this brings back memories of a teenage bike trip through rural Indiana. We'd stopped our ten speed bikes in one small town and bought pop from a machine on the porch of the local general/convenience store. It turned out ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit sad today when news came that an online community I helped to create is going away at the end of the month. Several years of my life's work and thousands of individual's creative endeavours will either disappear off the net entirely or, if individual creators are quick enough, be shifted over to Tripod or another site host ( Read more... )