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 dock stomping. I was reduced to walking into the water down the boat ramp, running […]
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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 my morning swim tomorrow, just to prove they do in fact exist. In contrast, the
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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
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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 that is sure to come. Nothing to see here (they pretend): just a few errant
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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 he is so incompetent (but not nearly as incompetent as his boss ) that my
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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 my crosshairs at the moment: why do the photos of Ontario cottage renos or new
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As you may know, I have recently moved. Or I guess, more correctly, I have partially moved because my stuff has not yet settled into its new home because there is not yet a new home. The last time I moved was seven years ago and I had moved four years prior to that, which
Last night, I heard my owl for the first time this season. I’m not sure if it’s a girl or a boy, or even if it’s the same owl from year to year, but its “woot-too-woot,” usually around four in the morning, is my literal calling card for the start of the soon-to-come summer. The
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The hummingbirds are back, complete with their asshole behaviour, dive-bombing each other to get to the feeder even though there is more than enough to go around. The day after I filled the feeder with pseudo-nectar, I noticed it was down just over half. I blamed bird gluttony until I discovered a pool of sugar
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Today, I unearthed (un-snowed?) my Globe and Mail newspaper from February 7. I wasn’t completely sure what had happened to it at the time, but suspected it had been plowed under the windrow at the side of the driveway, and indeed that is what had happened. And that got me thinking. Where did the word
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