Archive for October, 2007
Found this fun word today while following rabbit trails at lunch. I hope that it makes you smile as much as I did.
ABSQUATULATE
To make off, decamp, or abscond. The 1830s — a period of great vigour and expansiveness in the US — was also a decade of inventiveness in language, featuring a fashion […]
I found this in the depths of my documents folder, clipped from someone’s blog ages ago (well, cyber-ages, which likely means several months ago). It is very resonant right now as I am (once again and finally) working my way through ‘Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places’ by Eugene Peterson, and am reminded that God […]
See more chickens…
OSOK was so kind as to post a few pics of our place taken from a helicopter this week. There sure are a lot of trees…
This made me smile. And I’m not even a dad.
(I can’t embed YouTube, so go there and watch .)
*Update II: the Badger fixed it. Cool.*
Really. Ick.
Driving to work in the first snowfall of the year was tense, because the road wasn’t plowed of course, and when it rains on 4 inches of snow the result is a mess. As the Badger gingerly guided our car through the rutted glop, I tried to appreciate the surreal beauty of white-coated trees […]
It’s been wet and rainy here. Since May, pretty well. There was a week of sun in August, and three days in September. Really. So this made my heart glad, and will raise the Badger’s spirits as well. I was worried that Environment Canada has lost their sunshine icons.
I arranged my library by colour. Inspired by several pics seen on Design Sponge.





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