Writer, Dabbler In Things
There are a LOT of crows out this morning. It’s weird and — writerbrain working overtime as it always does — frankly a bit unsettling. When I was walking Radar, we saw two complaining crows come flying out of a tree, being harassed by smaller birds. Not unusual for crows to go raiding nests for … Read more
*Reporting Live From Ipperwash Beach* I’d thought that today was going to be more about poking around beach town than being at a beach, but the latter was voted for, so here we are. Taking a picturesque drive here revealed a huge section of beach that you can drive onto, so we opted for that … Read more
*Reporting Live From Ipperwash Beach* We called an audible this morning and decided to try to shoot for a visit to an aunt’s place, the better part of three hours away, that this time didn’t involve clearing out more of my mother’s storage locker. Instead, it would be a visit to get to the beach … Read more
I live near the Toronto shoreline in an area where we’re lucky enough to have various sized parks in easy walking and biking distance. It’s always been a joy to walk around because of the openness (physically, and for one’s eyes and soul to stretch a bit), and because you never know what birds you … Read more
J and I got married in June 18 years ago. With it being shortly before the end of her teaching school that year, we had to wait for a bit to get to our honeymoon, which we had on Maui. It’s a pretty spectacular island, and we made the most of our week-ish there by … Read more
It’s been a solid week of progress and fundraising. My burgeoning moustache is definitely growing in (if slowly), and I’ve been way ahead of the curve to meet and well surpass my commitment of walking 60 km for the month. You can see my webpage and keep up with my progress here. (The mobile version … Read more
I’ve noticed a couple of things in my walks through some local parkland over the last few days. First, the squirrels are getting chubby. Squirrels are ubiquitous in Toronto. Common enough that visiting for a while, and certainly when you’ve grown up here, you don’t think twice about them. Common enough that with seeing them … Read more
Wikipedia was established in 2001, the idea being to make an online encyclopedia that anyone could add to and edit as needed to correct. It made sense, in theory: No one is an expert on everything, but there are experts in everything — or even just people who could offer insightful knowledge on any subject … Read more
I finally heard back from the animal refuge where we had taken Fiadh–they’re understandably slammed with work and replying to people inquiring about one critter or another who was brought in must be super low priority–and there were three main elements to the news: 1) It’s a he, not a she (Fiadh still works as … Read more
We went to a friend’s pool party this past Saturday. One of our friends there had found a tiny baby bird–way more skin than fluffy down, eyes still not open, not able to move around too much and even that very unsteadily and unbalanced–on the pool deck. With no nest in sight to try to … Read more