2007-05-07, 08:32 AM — getting a little wild
This morning I heard a warbler in the back yard. This expands the list of birds I have seen in our amazing new backyard to this:
House sparrows, starlings, robins, crows, cardinals, blue jays, grackles, chickadees, juncos, chipping sparrows, song sparrows, flickers, a brown thrasher, and a black-throated green warbler.
It's not terribly long yet. But it's getting there, and there's some good stuff on that list. I am spending copious amounts of time out in the garden. My veggie garden is probably about half-finished, and hopefully by the end of today I will have planted the shallots and onions waiting for me in the garage. We bought a couple of native plants yesterday from the Native Plant Source at the Clay and Glass Gallery's "Green Garden Party" and I'll plant them today; tomorrow it's supposed to rain a little, I hope, so that would be good for the new plants.
2007-05-03, 06:21 PM — who bloody cares?
I don't always agree with Don Cherry. I respect him, though, in a strange way entirely reserved for Don Cherry. And I have to say, I think that he's got this particular issue neatly wrapped up. Don't our politicians have better things to worry about? Seriously, this kind of thing really pisses me off. And it looks like Doan didn't even say what they're fussing about. Someone got hold of a story and wanted a scapegoat and have blown it so out of proportion it makes everyone involved - except Doan himself - look like complete morons. I'm not saying that it was a nice thing to say, or appropriate. But from all the evidence, he didn't even say it. So it was a non-issue before it even got started.
There's other stuff to worry about. Global warming. Domestic violence. Obesity. Water quality. The fact that this is even on parliament's radar just blows my mind.
2007-04-17, 03:07 PM — i should have blocked his tailpipe
I love this but it also makes me sad. I really wish this sort of thing wasn't necessary. I'm having a kind of down-on-humanity couple of days. The litter flying everywhere after a wind storm, the dude in the parking lot of Tim Hortons who idled the entire time I parked, went inside, got my tea and my food, came back out... and was still idling when I left...
I want to yell at these people, or people in general, but I was in Tim Horton's getting my tea in a disposable cup, so that doesn't make me any better.
I just don't have a lot of hope for humans, really. Well, hope for the fact that we can turn things around. I think we can, but I suspect we won't. So I'm just going to keep going and do what I can, the small bit that it is.