Today Twenty Seventh has been closed much of the day from in front of our place south to beyond #2 as crews dig up the street. I presume they are doing the sewer connections for the pair of builds at #4, but they have also… Read More
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Oshawa Peony Festival
Tuffy P posting today. I took a drive out to Oshawa this afternoon to take in the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens and the 13th Annual Oshawa Peony Festival. Indoors, the judges tables fill half a hockey rink with seemingly every variety of peony. Outdoors, the… Read More
To the woods….
I took the dogs up to a favourite forest this morning. I was looking (unsuccessfully) for oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus populinus – the so-called aspen oyster. Normally they fruit around the beginning of June in my local forests. Last weekend I was away at banjo camp… Read More
The 27th Street Book box needs a few good books
Most of the time, the book box out in front of our place is self-sufficient. People take books. People drop books and it exists in a nice balance. Lately, it’s looking a little depleted. There are still some good titles in there, but as you… Read More
Studio Sneak Peak: Switchback
Here’s a studio sneak peak. This work, called Switchback, is acrylic on masonite. It’s about 2 feet tall, and it floats a little away from the wall.
The Dying Detective
The Dying Detective was written in Swedish and published in 2010. It was translated into English in 2016. This page-turner is quality Nordic crime writing with some underlying character-driven humour. The protagonist is an out-of-shape retired ace-detective who suffers a stroke just before devouring a… Read More
In the Spring Garden
This martin house is a new addition to the back garden. It is unlikely to attract purple martins, which require housing at least 60 feet from a building or tree, elevated 12 to 18 feet high. Armed with this knowledge, I resized the holes… Read More
but he bought a ticket….
The video showing a United Airlines customer dragged kicking and screaming from a plane has by now been seen over 6 million people. I’m sure that number is climbing fast. According to news reports, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz called the situation “upsetting”, commenting the… Read More
Long Branch Mosaics
I revamped the Long Branch Mosaics site today. Same content – I just changed the way it was organized and changed some text. It’s more of an all-over approach than the blog theme I was previously using. Tuffy P and I started making mosaics over… Read More
Red Hot
Here’s some Robert Gordon and Link Wray for a Saturday morning… The Way I Walk You don’t hear a lot of rock ‘n’ roll these days, do you? I remember buying my copy of their second record, Fresh Fish Special. That was in the late… Read More
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