I’ve slowed the ant invasion to a trickle. It hasn’t been easy. It involved a lot of poisonous bait inside and out and a few completely futile attempts at finding the colony. But the occasional industrious critter is still coming in so a pest control company will spray the entire house, inside and out, on Friday. …
Last fall, our little family expanded in the most delightful way. For a while, hubby and I have been debating the pros and cons of hearing the pitter-patter of little feet in the hallway and in November, it finally happened. Yes, we adopted a rescue cat. …
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I can’t stand Groundhog Day.  There! I’ve said it!  And I don’t mean the movie, I mean the ritual of watching a flea-bitten varmint crawl out of a hole every February 2nd. …
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I had to look at the calendar – is it April first? Â The SPCA in New Zealand is teaching dogs to drive. Â …
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We’ve been talking about getting a pet for a while. Â Ever since Derek said the words “…if we ever get a dog…” while he was building a fence this summer, the door to getting a fur baby was kicked open, in my view. Â And I’ve been tapping on that door ever since. Â …
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I’m afraid I’m too mentally exhausted today to form an opinion about anything except perhaps that iTunes is the work of the devil.  But that’s a story for another day.  So today I present to you someone I miss.  Stan the cat. …
When my brother and I were kids we used to joke that we were on a first-name basis with the animals at Marineland. Â Living just a short drive from Niagara Falls, out of province or out of country relatives would expect to spend a day at the theme park when they visited. Â Most kids were over the moon to go to Marineland. Â We liked it well enough but it got to be kind of routine for us. Â …
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A kitty, who shall remain nameless, took her frustrations out on me yesterday. Â I’ve got a case of Cat Scratch Fever! …
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I’ve wanted to do some sort of volunteer work for a while now and yesterday I began at the London Humane Society as a cat socializer – I jokingly call my position “kitty wrangler”. Â …
Why is it important that the chicken I’m about to eat was allowed to roam freely, attend the school of its choosing and dream of a better life before it was slaughtered, cut up and packaged? …
No matter how you slice it, this is just unusual. Â …
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It’s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair. …
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This city is getting a bad rap lately for a big unemployment rate. Even Statistics Canada has said the rate might be skewed because they only used a very small sampling of workers/non-workers the last time it was calculated. But there it is, over 9-percent, and tweeted and repeated all over the country. …
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There’s nothing quite like getting those knots out of tired muscles after a stressful week.  …
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For the past few weeks I’ve been looking into the ins and outs of becoming an apiarist. …
The farewell to the farm was a great time! Oh it was hot. Sooooo very hot. Even under the cover of a huge canvas tent, it was stinking, sweating, sweltering, soak-your-backfat kind of hot.   …
