Tuffy P (AKA Sheila Gregory) and her friend Nadia Stelmach are organizing the first Long Branch by the lake Garden Tour for June 18, 2016. Right now Tuffy is working on setting up a blog site for the event. A number of gardeners in… Read More
Regular visitors know that last March I stepped on a patch of black ice on our front stairs and went for a wee flight, breaking and dislocating my right ankle, and for bonus points damaging a ligament. This left me with 14 screws Humpty-Dumptying my… Read More
For years there have been chess programs that have beaten top players, but computers playing the game of Go haven’t fared so well – until now. Check out this article. This morning, Nature published a paper describing DeepMind’s system, which makes clever use of, among other… Read More
Let’s see, what’s happening around here? Lady spent the weekend with us on a trial adoption. She’s a very well-adjusted cat, especially considering she’s operating one leg short. Cats usually take a little time to adjust to a new environment, and we’ve learned a routine… Read More
For the most part we don’t have nearly as much gun violence in our city as our neighbours to the south and it’s easy for us to be smug about the bizarre American fetish for firearms. This morning though, I was taking the dogs out… Read More
Tuffy P posting….this shot caught the tail end first minutes of our welcome party. It started early with tail wagging and kisses from George and Memphis, and then Miss Phyllis woke up from behind an accordion to come and chill with her new ‘soul sister’,… Read More
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any button accordion around this joint. Here’s Andrew Carrierre playing some great Creole accordion on the Perrodin Two Step.
In spring of 1986 I took a part time job at Canada Post sorting mail. I had an art habit, a bad one, and I needed a day job, or as it turned out, an evening job, to support it. I recall I even wrote… Read More
The first step is to cut out the basic shapes, then paint the sides and back with several coats of good paint. We’ll get going on the mosaic work on these soon. If you’re interested in seeing some of our mosaic work, check out Long… Read More
27th Street 