Current event.

What the hell is this, #ptbo?

Cat impersonating kangaroo. I don’t know why.

So Elections Canada is on Bluesky. FR: @f.electionscanada.ca EN: @e.electionscanada.ca

walking time.

Sent by the cat sitter this morning. Oz wishes you all a happy #caturday

Can confirm: it is warmer in Edmonton than Peterborough today. By about 30 degrees.

Wild Kingdom.

I see it’s now “President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission“? Well, buddy, a $12.99 reimbursement for an Amazon prime account I may or may not have signed up for doesn't make me like you one iota more. (Even if it is in US dollars.)

I’m certainly not shilling for Netflix, but Laura Poitras’s documentary on Seymour Hersh feels like essential viewing just now. www.netflix.com/ca/title/821...

My outfit (and posse) for the day it happens.

Christmas lights and frosty sunrise at my place.

For some reason, Elvis’s version of Bridge over Troubled Water required Spanish subtitles (at Dusk to Dawn Brewing Company in not-very-Hispanic Millbrook, ON).

Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

I feel groovy. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Um.

I just got my Covid and flu shots! (and now I wait to see when the desperate need for a nap kicks in…)

Bwahaha! #ptbo

Delightful scenes from #Ptbo/Nogo Pride Parade! Sometimes this town delivers in joyful ways!

NOT quite the #Caturday we were looking forward to.

In other news, I’m on the Bathurst #7 bus for the first time in 11+ years and ooh, I haven’t missed it.

@apiln.bsky.social This reminded me of you.

Today, at the ORONO FAIR.

Huh.

I’ve just sent a letter supporting increased federal investment in arts and culture to my own MP, Prime Minister Carney, and key cabinet ministers - and it took less than a minute. Join me? canadianartscoalition.com/campaign-for...

Part of a thing we did on my porch yesterday! Alabaster calves belong to me. #PlayMusicOnThePorchDay

Huh.

People of #ptbo: work is now underway on the City’s new Municipal Cultural Plan! There’s a survey open and public meetings August 12, 14, and 19. If you’re an artist, cultural worker or someone who benefits from arts and culture, please engage! www.connectptbo.ca/cultural-plan

Taking counsel from Oblique Strategies. Might be quite the weekend.

Life achievement unlocked!

Oh Jesus.

A basket of ridiculously red, absurdly aromatic Ontario strawberries.

@gonzo.bsky.social, I thought you and Dade might enjoy this…

I am no gardener, but there is some pretty stuff in the garden today.

Aw shaddap.

“Art” over the toilet at the Bracebridge Pita Pit. Follow me for more great travel and dining tips!

People in #ptbo! Weather notwithstanding, the Great Gilmour Garage Sale is on! Live music starting at 930! Bargains galore!

Smellogram!

#magnoliawatch on my street in #ptbo These trees took a beating in the ice storm, but are determined to bloom!

Ain’t no party like a political party.

My Fitbit is at 34,204 steps and I’m now enjoying the traditional Get Out The Vote Big Baby.

Dropping Vote Today literature for my candidate of choice. Polls open at 930, #ptbo: you know what to do!

Cherry: crueller; April: cruellest.

Hey, #ptbo: many places are closed due to the ice storm but the Elections Canada office is open (bottom end of Peterborough Square, in the farmers’ market winter space) and accepting your ballots! If you can get there, vote today, please.

Remember that brief time when we banged on pots at 7 pm to thank essential workers? (And maybe work out some lockdown yayas.) How about doing something better to thank the emergency services and power workers when the lights go back on in #Ptbo?

And we’re off! (Power, that is.)

Ice storm pics from the yard. #Ptbo

Best-ever letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail.

Going to hear the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the best-situated concert hall in Canada!