valymonahan.bsky.social
Northerner. Stuff I like: birds, food, fishing, social equality.
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This is so awful! People drive waaay to fast here and are careless with everyone's lives. Wishing him a swift and full recovery.
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If you want to sleep, recommend you set an alarm, so you start whatever bed-time routine helps you unwind. Hard to remember to "go to bed" when it is bright. Also, northern summer light is like caffeine: a big dose will keep going, if that is something you would like to try for a while.
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Update: more taxis arrived, hood put up on abandoned taxi and it has been removed! Glad Husband was too cynical. Neighbour now has parking spot back.
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Not really camping. Childhood friend's yard had horse chestnut trees. Branches like ladders up into a giant green tent. No direct sun, but breeze could pass through. On sunny summer days would take pillows, books and snacks and stay up until our backs/butts ached and we had to climb down.
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Our seasonal fruit stands just opened. There will be actually ripe fruit (from BC) soon!
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Gets a big UGH from me!
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"bear frequenting area" and "frostbite in minutes"
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This happened because Yukon/northern BC First Nations acted, asking their citizens to not hunt, for years. Biologists/government Environment bureaucrats listened to them and everyone worked together to protect/support caribou. Wonderful that there are enough caribou so FN youth can hunt again!
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Update: taxi still parked in front of neighbour's place. Speculation: Taxi company only had one set of keys and thief took them/threw them away. Husband: you know they won't move it until neighbour calls the city and threatens to have it towed. Probably.
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Love these suggestions! For me, a favourite food memory was in S. Ontario, eating super ripe, warm cherries with local cheese curds. So.good. I live where winter is very cold/dark, so I love freezing summer ripe fruit to enjoy in Jan/Feb.
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Love this! One of my favourite seasonal bakery/deli places does a brisket pannini with pickles on cheddar jalapeno bread. So good!
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That looks like a decadent soup. Shank (beef, or lamb) add such delicious richness to anything they are involved with.
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Have fun! I was super-impressed with the breakfast buffet during the one trip to Norway I stayed at a hotel. Eggs/bread/bacon/sausage but also cheeses, cold-cuts, coleslaw, other cold salads, pickled mushrooms, pickled beets, pickled fish. Crocks of soft and hard boiled eggs that kept them WARM.
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Other countries would struggle to pay for/re-create the current work of the NIH. It would be FAR BETTER if the US Government backed down and left it to continue its amazing work.
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Terrifying.
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Going to listen tonight, out of season.
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@captainawkward.bsky.social, I am presuming, I know, since we don't really know each other, but, I think you would enjoy.
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Eve, and cry. I am not alone. My non-Canadians friends, if you love a mystery, if you know about/have friends/family in the military, and/or if you love history, this one is FOR YOU. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Every year, here, on Canada Day, they serve pancakes that are made with a starter that (they say) came over the Chilkoot Pass, in 1898. They are delicious.
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Right? Real ways to support girls/women in sport: spend more money on them/their sports; protect them from predatory/abusive coaches; look at what is keeping them out of/making them leave sport and fix those things. This is political populist nonsense of the very worse, bigoted kind. Call it out!
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Saw a very large (adult-sized) grey jay chasing its parent today. Heard weird wheeze-screaming down the trail and, that is what it was. Very fat fledgling chasing parent because it was "starving", clearly, and needed to be fed.
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I love it SO much. Plan to re-watch, in the winter.
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My Spanish experience is old, but it was def. "we have never learned another language, impressed that you have ten words of ours".
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My kiddo, fluently bilingual, with a widely varying Canadian French accent: everyone in every coffee shop/restaurant in France is absolutely making fun of me, in ways I can't QUITE figure out, but am not enjoying. I guess they prefer non-French-speaking tourists, so they can ridicule, in peace?
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I mean, just effin' LISTEN. They don't look that much alike. They sure as shooting don't SOUND alike, my dude.
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Is that first one a bee/wasp mimic moth? Very cool, regardless!
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There were birds! Many swallows over the pond, all tree, as far as I could see. Robins seen, Swainson's thrushes heard. One large spruce tree is hosting a pine siskin nest, judging from the activity. An immature bald eagle flew over. A gull (likely herring) seemed unhappy about that.
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Baleen was a pretty ideal material for the purposes it was used for. Initially thought the corset I was working on had just spring steel (lots of obvious rust stains), but checked the boning channels with a magnet and lo. Was able to tease a strip of baleen out of a ripped area to confirm. So cool.
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Link to Saturday Night Live skit on Youtube "Punk Band Reunion at the Wedding."
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One of my favourites! Underrated. Hard to discuss without spoiling the many twists and turns!
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Painful bouncing with a side dish of embarrassment. A good bra literally makes it possible to run/jump/play hard in comfort.
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You might enjoy this historical ad, in an article about corsets. Literally women in corset holding fencing foil. histclo.com/style/under/...
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Similar corsets show women playing golf. I worked on a Ferris Good Sense women's corset from 1909(?) that had a combo of spring steel and whale baleen boning, typical for that time period. Baleen was getting rarer/more expensive. Seemed super constraining! But probably less so than earlier ones.
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History nerd, here. For "Western" clothing history, you can see a reflection of the increasing popularity/acceptance of "sports" and other non-labour physical activity for girls/women in commercial corsets. Note the lady is NOT holding a riding crop, but a fencing foil. histclo.com/style/under/...
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Not a tall person and I still remember the aching limbs, at night, as a teen.
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My short/slight kiddo, as a teenager, devouring an entire package of sliced ham after school then having 2-3 helpings at dinner and randomly munching a whole bag of chips/popcorn before bed.
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Could we just live in some uninteresting times? Like, for a day, as a treat?
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Hoping this means it won't happen; rage-shaking seems absolutely justified. I live in Canada, generally horrified for you all. This step is making me nauseous.