2024 Posts
Cottage Status Report 20260905
In case you were wondering, yes, of course I did in fact jinx myself. A dock spider as big as a Buick has stationed himself (herself?) right in front of the dock ladder and refuses to budge, regardless of any ...
Cottage Status Report 20260823
I think I am about to jinx myself, but I have not seen a single dock spider yet this year. Maybe my secret voodoo helped? Who knows. Anyhow, I am sure a vindictive army of them will greet me for ...
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 ...
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 are both still emerging, just flexing their muscles for mayhem ...
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 real estate of my brain lately. This is mostly because ...
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 why celery costs so much. But this is what’s in ...
Run, run, run, run, away
Let me be clear about one thing. I am not a “clickbait” person. I am rabid in my skepticism of headlines that seem too good to be true, especially from unknown websites. But this one caught my eye: “Five ...
Happy International Women’s Day! (Good luck with that…)
This year marks 51 years since the first International Women’s Year and 41 years since the end of the momentous United Nations “Decade For Women.” Luckily, these events were all it took to bring those of us with two X ...
Send in the Bots
In case you thought that scam artists using AI as their surrogate of choice were relegated to cloned-celebrity endorsements of crypto get-rich-quick schemes or sure-thing investments in nonexistent gold mines, I am pleased to inform you that the bot-jockeys are ...
A Suite Deal
Those of you who know me will know I am a Marriott maven. I regularly amass a bazillion points and have achieved platinum status. Alas, that’s not the top-most tier (you have to stay 75 nights a year to get ...