We have a Saskatoon Berry (Serviceberry) bush out in the front garden, and this year it’s loaded with fruit. I did a first picking after supper today, and in a couple days most of the rest of them should be ripe. Now to decide what… Read More
Listening to Way Out West, by Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives. This is Marty Stuart’s ode to California, full of twangy surf guitars, excellent songwriting, a taste of far-out gospel and as a bonus, some irresistible instrumentals. This is the kind of record you… Read More
From a Go game last evening: the large white group on the right side is dead. White was doing OK with a good territory in the lower left and another along the top, but I poked at his shape on the right side and my… Read More
It’s Murry McLauchlan singing Down by the Henry Moore…
Wishing all my friends here in Canada a super-fantastic Canada Day! There’s been a lot of hoopla around this one, it being #Canada150 and all. Some of that seems somewhat artificial, but that’s OK. Even though we have our share of issues to grapple with… Read More
I deleted my Pinterest account tonight. I realized I hadn’t posted anything to any of my boards nor visited anybody else’s boards for ages. I don’t know what I was doing there, really. It seemed interesting to me at one point, but now not so… Read More
Today we visited the leash free park along Etobicoke Creek. For those wondering how to access it, go in from South Creek Rd, which runs south from Dundas St west of West Mall. It’s a great spot for dogs because they have lots of room… Read More
WARNING: contains ridiculously delicious fried food. I haven’t had fried plantain (tostones) in years, which is crazy because they’re fantastic. Today I was in the No Frills buying cat litter and a few other things, and when I swung by the veggies, they had some… Read More
Over the years gardening on 27th Street, our ideas about how to approach a garden have changed somewhat. It’s no longer just about a flower bed and some plants. What is the shape of the garden – and the shape of the space around it?… Read More
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