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Feeding George

Offering some parsley to our Reeves Pheasant, named George. His breed is described as “pugnacious”, and you get a sense of that here. Though not shown here, it’s even more evident when our bulldog charges the cage and George holds his ground, takes a couple of pecks at the bars as if to say “back off, scrunchy face”. (YouTube video)

(see also “Feeding the Goldfish”)

“Nice Legs, Shame About the Face”

“I wonder what a frog thinks about when it sees a big-ass riding mower heading towards it on the lawn…” This oh-so-whimsical thought was in my brain yesterday while I was cutting the grass, instead of what should have been in my brain, which was “I wonder what would happen if I crashed into that sawhorse…” Well, mystery solved. What happens is that the canoe comes crashing down on the lawnmower, the sawhorse gets a broken leg (no need to shoot it quite yet though) and the front tire of the mower pops its seal, leaving it flopping around on the rim.

A weekend sure can turn on you…

Thanks to the help of Good Neighbour Mike and his hydraulic jack, and the good folks at Canadian Tire (although the latter did charge me) the grass finally did get cut.

Kitchen Reno – “After”




Kitchen Reno – "After"

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

Finally finally finally, we have our kitchen. Progress seemed to happen in spurts, with longer periods of inactivity. Ovrerall though, we are quite satisfied with both the products and the services. Thanks are due (along with our bill) to Van Dolder’s for “intelligent design” and to our long-suffering but fast-working contractor, John Marriage (JSM Contracting). Of course now we can’t afford to buy food, but at least it looks nice… (This is a panorama stitched from 4 separate shots.)

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Here is the “before” picture.


Senator Obama




FW: SENATOR OBAMA.JPG

Originally uploaded by Barack Obama

Seems like not only regular schmucks have Flickr accounts — unless you consider presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be a regular schmuck. While most of the photos appear to be OF him, rather than BY him, they do appear to represent an authentic, official and authorized photo-blog of the campaign. No word on whether Hillary has an account.