gōng xǐ fā cái Welcome to the Year of the Fire Horse! 📷 chinahighlights.com

😆 Memories! 🤣 😂 Three high prey-drive dogs later, my shoulder is still sore but I’ve learned scan the road ahead and stay alert. 😆

Damn dust bunnies, my eyes are tearing

The storyteller’s voice of Stuart McLean was silenced on this day 15 Feb 2017. 🇨🇦 Read his story on @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social ⬇️ 🎶 tribute by Reid Jamieson: youtu.be/vmi2NqdjdcI?...

On this National Flag Day, the Maple Leaf flies at half-mast. Today our flag carries a message for the community of Tumbler Ridge: Canada is with you.

Crocus bulbs bloom in the afternoon sun. #crocus #spring #blooms #garden #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

Curiosity, … thy name is squirrel. 🐿️ #squirrel #tree #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

Signs of spring emerge from the leaf mulch! #snowdrops #garden #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

In the aftermath of #TumblerRidge 💔 we can set aside speculation, blame & grievance & come together to offer compassion & kindness to the victims, families, first responders & the community. Take a deep breath, reflect on the collective heartbreak & do not vilify the LGBTQIA2S community. ⬇️

Today. Be present. Hug your kids. Be open. Hug your dogs. Be kind. Hug a friend. Be compassionate. Hug your cats,… if they’ll let you! Just be. 🤗 “Sometimes, the best mental health lessons don’t come from books or seminars—but from a dog who forgives completely and lives fully in the moment.” ⬇️

💔 I stand with #TumblerRidge 😢

💔 Tumbler Ridge community.

I spy ‘Drafts’ on my ‘Compose’ screen! Thank you @bsky.app 🙏🏻 🦋 🙏🏻 🦋🙏🏻 🦋 🙏🏻 🦋

It’s a ‘flippers up’ kind of day.

Bad President has problem with Bad Bunny by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

“God Bless America. Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” 🇨🇦 🙏🏻 Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny, Gaga, Seahawks,… and the raccoons came back. It’s going to be a good week! #Monday

Setting up a new laptop for a friend has turned into an app marathon. So apropos! 😃 ⬇️

Seedy Saturday yesterday renewed my longing for spring. #blooms #garden #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

Distraction tv: Watching ‘Pole to Pole With Will Smith’ on National Geographic and enjoying the series. … even milking a tarantula for venom research in the Amazon cave! #arachnophobia 😧 😮 😨 ➡️ share.google/TL9dr7sYXnC4...

“Apparently what matters is not decency, not dignity, not the basic human respect owed to former presidents and first ladies, especially the first Black family to ever occupy the White House.” 💥’Deliberate Dehumanization’ by @notjustadrummer.bsky.social ⬇️ michaeljochum.substack.com/p/deliberate...

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Thinking about getting voice buttons for my doodle to improve communication. After this video, now thinking that could backfire! 🤦‍♀️

🎭 To prove his fealty to the mob boss, PP orders disposable JJ south to sit on JD’s couch in the basement of the gaudy big house. On cue Don Cheetoleone 🤡 snarls ominously, “Tell the Canadians I love them.” Don’t fall for this Celebrity Apprentice-Sopranos cross-over spinoff distraction.🎪 ❤️PMMC 🔥 ⬇️

Hope that British Columbia follows suit to officially drop Musk’s X platform. ⬇️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yes non-profits, you can use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house! 💡 “… get over whatever disdain and fear of money they may have and start using it like a tool to achieve a just and equitable world, and world where money is not so powerful.” 💰💰💰 ⬇️

In my mind, I’m back watching the sun set across Bahía de Banderas. 📷 Puerto Vallarta February 2006

Our Catherine O’Hara. 😢 Thank you for all the laughter. You will be missed. Rest in peace.

Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.

i wonder if it was for the best... my great granpa died young he was hot tempered, abusive to my great grandma and the kids. he loved my mom though, his granddaughter. i got to know my great grandma as silly, yet so calm. i love, and still hear, her laugh. i wonder if it was for the best...

Hmmm, … possibly a troubling update on Xonaly: bsky.app/profile/todm... Stay tuned.

🧶 I haven’t picked up needles for a long time. Now, after too much political scrolling followed by a Hoarders tv show, this adventure with chenille is not elegant but very therapeutic. 😊 Kudos to professionals who work with hoarding disorders.

Standing in support! Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC): "Residential school denialism proliferates under the guise of academic freedom and freedom of speech, and promotes white supremacy, racism, and misinformation which should not be permitted in public institutions.” 👀 www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Wednesday wiles,… waiting not-so-patiently for spring. #blooms #bloomscrolling #garden #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

Pieris Japonica in mid-January,… offering the promise of spring blooms. #blooms #bloomscrolling #garden #nature #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Google — without tracking DuckDuckGo — without Bing 👉 Meet Xonaly: the independent search engine, ad-free and Canadian-built. Try it ➡️ xonaly.com

Sharing a little giggle as we near Robbie Burns Day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😃

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“Listen up, Mr. Groundhog,….” Smile Sunday 😊

Strong partnerships take time and trust to build. Thank you to the Gitxaala Peoples and the Coastal First Nations for welcoming me. Together, we can protect what matters, create opportunities for Indigenous Peoples, and build a stronger, more sustainable, more resilient Canada.

Reading Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ and admiring his eloquence. #books #writers #authors

Awash in an atmospheric river,… drying off after a very wet walk. 🌧️ 💨 #dogsofbluesky #VancouverIsland #weather 🇨🇦

Is it juhatsu, vanishing from a former life or a dissociative fugue, loss of identity? ‘A Bug in Pitch’ Laura Palmer’s Island Crime S7 E7 update to Evaporated on the 4th anniversary of Ian Indridson’s disappearance: 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i... Ian VICPD file #22-1017 @palmerl.bsky.social

Hey, Boomers: Read this. Your vaccinations may be doing double duty! (Gift article)

January blooms. #Hellebores #blooms #garden #nature #vancouverisland 🇨🇦

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“May your Glass stay full and your feet touch the Sea.” 🥂 📷 Mermaid Musings www.facebook.com/share/1Dm24A...

Oíche Chinn Bhliana 🎉