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Cottage Status Report 20260709

Is it just me, or is ant season more like an ant insurrection this year? For a while, it was the medium-sized ones, who succumbed successfully (I think I just jinxed myself) to a heavy-duty application of an insect spray of dubious chemical composition. This no doubt means I will not be inducted at the next Order of Canada ceremony …

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Cottage Status Report 20260531

Like an eclipse of the sun and the moon happening in sync, pollen season and ant season have arrived simultaneously in our part of the woods. To be fair, they ...
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Cottage Status Report 20260508

This may initially appear to be off topic but bear with me. I must confess that I have been allowing Pete Hegseth to take up far too much of the ...
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Things I Don’t Get

Okay, to be fair, there are many things I don’t get. Like why there are so many delays on the Toronto subway, why it always rains on the weekend, and ...
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The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published in 2025.

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