I could watch this video 10 times in a row….
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Travel Immunizations and long, long flights
I haven’t traveled outside of North America a whole lot and I’ve never been to Asia at all, but Tuffy P and I are planning a trip to Vietnam in the not-to-distant future, so we both trundled off to a clinic to get whatever vaccinations… Read More
Fiddle tune for a Thursday night…(just because)
It’s the Sarsaparilla Polka by Canadian fiddle great Andy DeJarlis…
There’s a night heron in the kitchen

Another big tree coming down in Long Branch
It is no surprise to anyone around here that the huge dying silver maple at 2 Twenty Seventh is being taken down. Here is the history. The Committee of Adjustment approved the lot severance at 2 Twenty Seventh. We appealed to the OMB, who upheld… Read More
Find the heron
I took the dogs up to the leash free area on Etobicoke Creek yesterday for a swim. While we were there, a heron flew down. Too bad I only had my phone and not my camera with me. The bird is in there somewhere.
Winner!
The money-eating parking machine up the street is in slot machine mode again. I park there regularly when I stop in to Silver Lion or Purrfect Pets or Tasty Korea (yes I had some yummy Korean food for lunch today). I used to ignore the… Read More
Promenade all – Jim Magill on fiddle
Jim Magill was born in Northern Ireland in 1902 and passed in Toronto in 1954. He was a radio fiddler on Toronto’s CFRB between 11946 and 1954. He also played for square dances in Toronto with the Northern Ramblers. Here’s the Calgary Breakdown. And finally,… Read More
Tomato update….a modest beginning
I wish our first ripe tomato of the year was one of the beautiful large specimens growing on some of our 5 plants. In fact the great tomato harvest of 2017 has begun modestly. I’m not complaining. After years of being convinced we couldn’t grow… Read More
Teardrop Waltz
John Arcand on fiddle…