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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
A dog park integrated into a water filtration plant
The designers of the new and improved leash-free park at Jack Darling in Mississauga did a great job integrating the dog park with the filtration plant. The park is huge. Gravel paths loop through the grounds, descending to what remains of the old park on… Read More
Whoopie-ti-yi-yo
Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, a cattle call from an old cowboy song. Git along little dogies. Ever wonder just what a dogie is, or was? In cowboy slang, a dogie is a motherless calf. That much is sure. One story I read has it that after a particularly… Read More
New Garden
There is a little garden located between our neighbours’ house on the north and ours, kind of a no man’s land garden. It has been populated by orange daylilies for many many years. I think daylilies have their place, and they look nice enough during… Read More
Landseer at play
Today we took the Newfs over to Jack Darling leash free park in Mississauga. Memphis found a friend….
Goldfinch
The goldfinch mosaic is complete and ready for its new home.
How to play the spoons…
I know you’ve all been waiting for this. Here’s a video I found on YouTube featuring David Holt.
Morning in the woods
I’m off work for a couple days so this morning I asked the dogs if they’d like a car ride to a forest. It turns out they were quite excited by the prospect, so off we went. There was a particular forest I had in… Read More
Hey, we won something
The City of Toronto Etobicoke York District (whatever that is) has a ‘Great Garden Contest’ each year. This year, our front garden was nominated and has achieved 1st place in Ward 6 (Etobicoke-Lakeshore) in the Traditional garden category (the other category is Alternative/Environmental garden). Yay!!… Read More
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer…
The song of the day today is Ian Tyson’s masterpiece, Summer Wages. I always think of this one as a very Canadian tune, yet it has become a bluegrass standard, performed by JD Crowe and the New South and the Tony Rice Unit and so… Read More
27th Street 