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July-August 2023 garden report
My plan to show readers my garden at the end of each summer month got away on me. So here's my July garden video, which was made yesterday, August 3rd. A wee garden tour in just under four minutes! Come visit at the end of August and we'll eat lots of wonderful produce together, God and weather w...
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My plan to show readers my garden at the end of each summer month got away on me. So here's my July garden video, which was made yesterday, August 3rd. A wee garden tour in just under four minutes! Come visit at the end of August and we'll eat lots of wonderful produce together, God and weather w...
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And her name is...
Cornelia among the three sisters Cornelia! Kudos to my East Coast cousin, Claire, for her sense of humour... and I'll come up with a first prize of sorts. Honourable mention to Suzanne, my simplicity sister, who suggested TIDDA, which means sister in an Australian aboriginal language, and to...
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Cornelia among the three sisters Cornelia! Kudos to my East Coast cousin, Claire, for her sense of humour... and I'll come up with a first prize of sorts. Honourable mention to Suzanne, my simplicity sister, who suggested TIDDA, which means sister in an Australian aboriginal language, and to...
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Monday Music Appreciation #13 -- Stay Gentle
I really love the music of Brandi Carlile, and I think she's an incredibly cool musician and person besides. If you've never heard her song The Joke, click here and watch the video... it's deeply moving for anyone who has ever felt alone or ostracized, and who among us has never felt that way?&nb...
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I really love the music of Brandi Carlile, and I think she's an incredibly cool musician and person besides. If you've never heard her song The Joke, click here and watch the video... it's deeply moving for anyone who has ever felt alone or ostracized, and who among us has never felt that way?&nb...
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Meeting Ephthemia
Photo by Alfred Schrock on UnsplashOne of the first people who came to visit during Inner City Pastoral Ministry "table time" yesterday on the corner near Bissell Centre West was a small elder with shiny black hair, a huge smile (in spite of very few teeth), and the tendency to shout the odd word...
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Photo by Alfred Schrock on UnsplashOne of the first people who came to visit during Inner City Pastoral Ministry "table time" yesterday on the corner near Bissell Centre West was a small elder with shiny black hair, a huge smile (in spite of very few teeth), and the tendency to shout the odd word...
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What I saw on my summer holidays
Day 1 Edmonton to Langley, BCDay 2 VancouverDay 3 Langley to Vancouver IslandDay 4 Gold Stream Provincial ParkDay 5 Butchart GardensDay 6 Victoria and Willow BeachDay 7 Gold Stream to ParksvilleDay 8 Rathtrevor Beach Provincial ParkDay 9 Rathtrevor Beach/Campground and a Nanaimo visitDay 10 A sho...
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Day 1 Edmonton to Langley, BCDay 2 VancouverDay 3 Langley to Vancouver IslandDay 4 Gold Stream Provincial ParkDay 5 Butchart GardensDay 6 Victoria and Willow BeachDay 7 Gold Stream to ParksvilleDay 8 Rathtrevor Beach Provincial ParkDay 9 Rathtrevor Beach/Campground and a Nanaimo visitDay 10 A sho...
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The fourth sister...
Yesterday when I went out to water our tomato plants, I realized that the sparrows were eating the tops of the corn plants. Until I figured out what was happening last year, the tops were mostly gone, and I wasn't very happy with the birds. The cobs of corn ended up pretty stunted, too, though th...
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Yesterday when I went out to water our tomato plants, I realized that the sparrows were eating the tops of the corn plants. Until I figured out what was happening last year, the tops were mostly gone, and I wasn't very happy with the birds. The cobs of corn ended up pretty stunted, too, though th...
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Monday Music Appreciation #12 -- A small salute to Gordon
Once upon a time I owned a cassette tape of Gordon Lightfoot's greatest hits. Gord's Gold, it was called, and I listened to it until it wore out. The album originally came out when I was ten years old, and my parents had a copy, I think, but I didn't truly discover it until I was twenty-three, pi...
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Once upon a time I owned a cassette tape of Gordon Lightfoot's greatest hits. Gord's Gold, it was called, and I listened to it until it wore out. The album originally came out when I was ten years old, and my parents had a copy, I think, but I didn't truly discover it until I was twenty-three, pi...
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June garden report in July
Unruly rhubarbI intended to post this 6 minute garden tour on June 30th, but ended up doing all sorts of other outdoor things instead of sitting at my computer... for the last several days, even in the rain. This time of year, housework, cooking, and computer anything are the last of my prioritie...
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Unruly rhubarbI intended to post this 6 minute garden tour on June 30th, but ended up doing all sorts of other outdoor things instead of sitting at my computer... for the last several days, even in the rain. This time of year, housework, cooking, and computer anything are the last of my prioritie...
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Monday Music Appreciation #11 -- down the rabbit hole with Petula Clark
This morning as I walked around my garden, a long lost song sprang into my head. Unsure of the lyrics, I put "Thank you for every tree and flower song" into my browser, and proceeded down an internet rabbit hole, learning about one Petula Sally Olwen Clark, a famous international singer who is no...
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This morning as I walked around my garden, a long lost song sprang into my head. Unsure of the lyrics, I put "Thank you for every tree and flower song" into my browser, and proceeded down an internet rabbit hole, learning about one Petula Sally Olwen Clark, a famous international singer who is no...
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Sunday reflection on compassion and solidarity
This Sunday reflection comes out of a conversation this morning with my friend, Jim, who told me about two young orphans from Cameroon who helped him to pass out water bottles in the inner city this week. Where the young ones come from, no one is left to fend for themselves as our houseless peopl...
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This Sunday reflection comes out of a conversation this morning with my friend, Jim, who told me about two young orphans from Cameroon who helped him to pass out water bottles in the inner city this week. Where the young ones come from, no one is left to fend for themselves as our houseless peopl...
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Patience, birds!
When we arrived home on Friday after a two-week journey to visit family and friends in the BC lower mainland and on Vancouver Island, it quickly became apparent that if I didn't act quickly, this year's Saskatoon berry crop would be history. We have an abundance of juvenile magpies, blue jays and...
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When we arrived home on Friday after a two-week journey to visit family and friends in the BC lower mainland and on Vancouver Island, it quickly became apparent that if I didn't act quickly, this year's Saskatoon berry crop would be history. We have an abundance of juvenile magpies, blue jays and...
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Our hearts must break
Today we remembered one hundred and fifty-six people who died in our city only since last June just because they had nowhere to go.Our hearts should break.There were honour songs and bagpipes, tears and hugs. Two hundred carnations found rest at t...
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Today we remembered one hundred and fifty-six people who died in our city only since last June just because they had nowhere to go.Our hearts should break.There were honour songs and bagpipes, tears and hugs. Two hundred carnations found rest at t...
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Monday Music Appreciation #10 -- A rose for Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson rosesOscar Peterson is blooming in my yard. Or rather, the rose named after him is.One of my rosebushes didn't overwinter, so when we bought the shrubs for our front yard at the garden centre last month, I gravitated toward the Rose House... and was having a hard time deciding on w...
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Oscar Peterson rosesOscar Peterson is blooming in my yard. Or rather, the rose named after him is.One of my rosebushes didn't overwinter, so when we bought the shrubs for our front yard at the garden centre last month, I gravitated toward the Rose House... and was having a hard time deciding on w...
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Sidewalk stories
In April I discovered a box of unused sidewalk chalk in a cupboard, and decided it needed to be used. So I put some pieces into a pretty chocolate tin marked CHALK, and went out to encourage people to draw on my sidewalk.The first artist to participatedrew her own fl...
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In April I discovered a box of unused sidewalk chalk in a cupboard, and decided it needed to be used. So I put some pieces into a pretty chocolate tin marked CHALK, and went out to encourage people to draw on my sidewalk.The first artist to participatedrew her own fl...
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Garden goings-on
Hardworking family on May 22ndFor the record, my family is really wonderful. After I broke the bone in my foot on May 10th, they came to help me put in my garden 12 days later. I sat in a chair with my boot up, giving instructions and marking boxes with a checkmark when they were planted. I ...
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Hardworking family on May 22ndFor the record, my family is really wonderful. After I broke the bone in my foot on May 10th, they came to help me put in my garden 12 days later. I sat in a chair with my boot up, giving instructions and marking boxes with a checkmark when they were planted. I ...
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