My first ever brisket…yummy !

Happy Thanksgiving …and go #jays

Let’s go girls! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #womensrugbyfinal

Tops arranged by colour and sleeve length..all is right with the world #larentree

Pressed send today…Jan 23, 2026…the countdown is on #langchat

Hello rain!

Never underestimate the usefulness of an egg poaching cup and clips! Water for the birdies!

MacGyver-ed an extra water cup for the birdies during the heat! My Dad would be proud!

Working in our high school library, where kids print out assignments etc, I apparently say this a lot!

L is for the way you look at me O is for the only one I see V is very, very extraordinary E is even more than anyone that you adore….

April 30: Assignment explained at special in-person meeting (Class..off timetable) Deadline May 30. May 8-28 Students sent multiple messages re: assignment, due date & how to get help June 4: Receive message from student asking “what is it and when was it due?” The class my friends…”Peer Tutoring”

I sense another TACO order coming! And it’s not even Tuesday!

Hello mid-week morning…

Phew…moving forward Canada 😊🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Happy Easter…

Aren’t plants amazing?

When you buy a squishy ball for foot physio..at the dollar store..in the kiddie toy section…🤣

Into full spring now….

HS Japanese using NHK NewswebEasy for “Headline of the day” Great to expand vocab, add structures & ask “what message is it communicating” & “why is this news” (cultural content) kids enter room looking to TV for it & “solve” with partner. I often see words/language show up in writing #langchat

Lineup to vote in the by-election out the door, around corner& down 12th at Kits CC. Many giving up with the waits..Voting in small stuffy room…Surely a bigger room with more capacity would have been faster & encourage more voting?

The orange buffoon going full Liz Truss today and saying he’ll never change his policies..and unlike Liz will sadly, I think, outlast the lettuce….

At long last the Heard and MacDonald Islands and their unfair trade policies are brought to light and being acted upon. Imagine the audacity of this place, inhabited only by penguins ..prancing around in their formal wear and blocking US access to their market. Those days are over! Huzzah!

A sighting of that most rarest of springtime blooms..the “Cordus Extensionus” more commonly known as the “PowerPoppy”…. maybe you will be lucky enough to see one…

I was added to the group chat..so I know ..and it’s NOT gonna be great…..🤣🤣

Correct and full marks for the answer…

We all knew the issue wasn’t drugs at the border….!

Friday March 14…pi day…and hello Spring Break..which could be my last one with retirement looming!

If you aren’t sure what “elbows up” means to us in Canada..are you ready for us to send Jean Cretien down to Washington to deliver a “Shawinigan handshake”?

Happy to have him back in a new role 🇨🇦😊

Know thyself…

Just so non-Canadians know…

Never have I seen such a craven, evil, mafia shakedown of a democratic nation by a supposed world leader and his lapdog. I have no printable words for their heinous actions.

We are Canadian…🇨🇦🇨🇦

Easy to make those 🇨🇦 buying decisions now….

Proud 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

No need to say anything more…🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️

“The windshield that lived”…🤣🤣

Yup….🇨🇦🍁

From the Kitsilano Woke Dispatch: Dear Percyvil, Snow falls heavily & the snowplow drivers are absent refusing to be paid in Bitcoin. Kitted out in Lululemon/Arcteryx,I head out for organic yoghurt, leafy greens & 95% dark chocolate. I pray for survival & a B-line bus not stuck in the snow Karyne

Cue the obligatory “we may be in Canada but this is an event” Vancouver in snow photos…more to come of course!

Why Vancouverites are not your “typical” Canadians ..reason #265

Good day…sunshine…

Today I listened (with a little pride) to 2 students in my Japanese 9 have a final conversation assessment. They both began the year knowing nothing & today chatted with each other easily in a new language. The cool thing is that they’re both from Ukraine …one from Kharkiv and the other from Odessa…

This week, when discussing my retirement (either January or June 2026) ..my lovely principal referred to me as being full of ideas and energy despite being in the “twilight of my career”….🤦‍♀️

That moment you’re having a dream & realize you are playing the Ron Weasley role & because you’ve read the books you know danger is coming & you’re going to have to disapparate & neither Harry or Hermione will stay near you and won’t take out their wands….you know who comes..and you wake up…sheesh

Just to correct any misconceptions from less aware Orange people…