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Post by tzarine on May 17, 2024 12:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on May 18, 2024 15:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by sophie on May 18, 2024 18:54:19 GMT -5
We have a small lizard in this part of Canada: European wall lizard. They are an invasive species and scurry away from humans. Not poisonous. One got into our place yesterday and the dog’s hunting instinct were fired right up as soon as she spotted it. It ended up hiding under a chest. My husband and I are currently useless about catching/ trapping anything especially with a dog right into the thick of the action. I finally gave her a big treat to lure her out and keep her occupied. Our son came down and scooped the sucker up in a few seconds. It was like a three stooges episode.
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Post by psw on May 18, 2024 21:41:50 GMT -5
Ingredient in an online menu: Free Range Zucchini
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Post by Liiisa on May 19, 2024 4:48:02 GMT -5
Those caged zucchinis live in such cruel conditions, after all
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Post by Queen on May 19, 2024 6:05:53 GMT -5
Went online to buy a digital scale - for weighing wool... my knitting hobby might be overtaking my life.
In the "people also bought" the recommended products are small, resealable, plastic bags.
Then I realised who else might be interested in a scale that will weigh amounts less than fifty grams accurately...
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Post by sprite on May 19, 2024 16:37:35 GMT -5
snort. or puff.
my factoid of the month is that elephants have language, and one of their words is 'bee' because they hate bees. So farmers can play a recording of an elephant saying 'bee' as a painless deterrent.
anyhoo. today, sitting in the backyard sun, watching the bees on the wildflowers, chatting about how soothing their sound is, unless you're an elephant.
patner says, "and look, it works, no elephants anywhere!"
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Post by tzarine on May 19, 2024 19:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by sophie on May 19, 2024 22:29:13 GMT -5
Tzarine, those recipes are horrible! Yuck!
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Post by Queen on May 20, 2024 3:50:49 GMT -5
that trend for food that looks like something it isn't is why kids growing up in the 70s have trust issues. This should be strawberry frosted swiss roll, but it isn't... it's something with shrimp paste...
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Post by Liiisa on May 20, 2024 5:31:09 GMT -5
Eeeew. It looks like an internal organ of some sort
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Post by sprite on May 20, 2024 11:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by psw on May 20, 2024 14:35:59 GMT -5
spriteOne of my all-time favorites!!!
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Post by sprite on May 20, 2024 14:38:57 GMT -5
PSW, the song or the dessert?
Me: An extremely dark/inappropriate headline on the Onion today, regarding the news from Iran.
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Post by Liiisa on May 20, 2024 16:39:07 GMT -5
PSW, the song or the dessert? Me: An extremely dark/inappropriate headline on the Onion today, regarding the news from Iran. lmao indeed
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Post by psw on May 20, 2024 20:28:10 GMT -5
sprite - that song specifically and Bolcom&Morris altogether!
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Post by sophie on May 20, 2024 22:55:51 GMT -5
We were having a family evening, eating dinner and watching hockey (team we were cheering on, Vancouver Canucks, lost sadly) and my husband was trying to explain some hockey rules to our grandson. What was said and what was understood were two different things!!
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Post by groo on May 21, 2024 0:32:14 GMT -5
From Twitter:
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See new posts Conversation RC deWinter @rcdewinter The Montana State Department of Fish and Wildlife is advising golfers to take extra precaution and be on the alert for bears while playing on Gallatin, Helena, and Lewis and Clark National Forest’s golf courses.
They advise golfers to wear noise-producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert but not to startle the bears unexpectedly.
They also advise golfers to carry pepper spray in the case of an encounter with a bear.
They say that it’s also a good idea to watch for signs of bear activity on the courses. They recommend that golfers be educated so that they can recognize the difference between Black bear and Grizzly bear droppings.
Black bear droppings are smaller and contain remains of nuts, berries and possibly squirrel, rabbit or gopher fur. Grizzly bear droppings have small bells, golf-gloves, sunglasses and other similar golf items in them and they usually smell like pepper spray.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 21, 2024 4:38:03 GMT -5
More new phone talk.
Ordered one from one of the major electronics stores, they have a shop at the local large shopping centre. I figured it was worth paying the $11 to get it in two hours via Uber, as this store is a horrible set up with much waiting and queueing when it comes to click and collect. And I really didn't have the spoons to go out again today.
Anyway, used Clipper's phone number for the notifications. He said when the message came through that the parcel was on the way, the route map showed a bike, not the usual car. We were saying surely not, there are some busy roads and major hills btw our place and the store. Then we started joking that maybe the item would never make it.
I was out reading on the balcony, and yes, a push bike turned up, young woman on it. We still can't believe it - the bike may have been an e one, not sure.
But while I'm used to bike couriers in the CBD this isn't really an area you see them.
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Post by groo on May 21, 2024 4:55:05 GMT -5
Seldom seen at outer Uki heights.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 21, 2024 8:09:14 GMT -5
Although my pizza arrived by motor scooter the other night.
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Post by tzarine on May 21, 2024 10:40:30 GMT -5
cause i really need an "Online Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing"
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Post by sprite on May 21, 2024 11:41:37 GMT -5
highly targeted marketing, I bet that's what they paid for!
My nephew and his GF are now going around Italy by train. He messaged to ask if he's allowed to go through the doors at the end of the train car.
tell me canada has terrible trains, without telling me...
(they did work it out on their own, eventually, but were quite nervous that they would just end up outdoors at high speed.)
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Post by tzarine on May 21, 2024 22:38:42 GMT -5
the northwell health ads they are wasting their money with showing them all night & yet have the audacity to ask me to donate to pay their nurses
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Post by Queen on May 22, 2024 7:07:55 GMT -5
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Post by groo on May 23, 2024 7:01:14 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on May 23, 2024 7:42:41 GMT -5
On the FB gardening group, discussion of snails inevitably leads to the advice that they're mainly after seedlings and young plants.
It just hit me today that snails are essentially plant pedophiles, which is inappropriate in many ways and will get me kicked out the group, but I have to share with someone.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 23, 2024 8:02:57 GMT -5
I have paper-eating snails in my letterbox.
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Post by sprite on May 23, 2024 8:35:15 GMT -5
kinky!
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Post by Liiisa on May 23, 2024 11:36:34 GMT -5
Yes, but I think if you eat children that's a different term
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