Starting sometime in mid-June, and continuing until sometime in July, strawberry season hits the Maritimes. The strawberries grown here are small, roughly about the size of my fingertip to the first joint or smaller. The flavour of these berries is delightfully sweet and intense, their scent is orgasmic. They arrive daily at the market or local ( Read more... )

Today began the annual boondoggle: Day Light Savings Time, only two weeks early. It will, apparently, last one week longer in the fall. This is being touted as an "energy saving" measure, though never has there been any true evidence that it actually does save energy at all. It doesn't make the daylight last any longer - in fact, daylight ( Read more... )

and from my 365 of the stupidest things ever said calender, in the catagory of

The Not-Too-Pleasant Aspects of being a Park Ranger:

'Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger."

from a Rocky Mountain National Park newsletter

Who are all these people who send me e-mail, and why do they think I need *Both* viagra and breast enlargement?