Elizabeth d'Anjou

I'm sorry, but "hellebore" really sounds like it should be a much more threatening-looking plant! 😀

OMG, priceless!

Future past continuous, subjunctive mood, first person plural negative

that we shall not have been biping

Oh, how lovely! ❤️

I was on the 8:30 train to Ottawa that same morning, so it was stuck in Fallowfield too--though since our accumulated delay was ONLY 3 hrs 55 mins, not QUITE 4, we only got a 50% credit! I take trains about once a month, and this was the FOURTH one in the last year that was over 3 hours late.

Ooh, now THIS is where I like to see technology advancing!

I just fished a receipt out of my coffee, in case you're wondering how my tax prep weekend is going...

Respect!!! We have an appt with our preparer tomorrow afternoon and are neck-deep in prep, but by the end of tomorrow our work will be done and within a few days they'll be filed. (Then it's on to working on my mom's, sigh...)

Love what you've done with the place!

We're prepping our taxes this weekend and much of our food is gonna be in this vein!

The Crook-In-Chief robs the US of $1.6 BILLION with his (paid for) pardons alone. That's only so far and he's only getting started.

Here's hoping for no character limits!

Add a nanaimo bar and any office is deluxe IMHO.

Ouch!!

😅 Bon courage!

The little white nose!! Love a good news endangered animal story. Thanks for sharing this. 😀

Gauge. Guage? It looks wrong no matter what.

😅

Grocery/Meal planning. Even with the most basic cooking skills, putting in some thought ahead of time can slash food costs, free up more time, reduce stress, AND result in eating better.

Long live Ttheoden's memory! (We have a bunny who shares that opinion on cords.)

Indeed! He is not generally either fanciful or covetous; it's clear those wee hammers have a certain special something!

What a glorious creature--and a perfect name! (I have spent.muxh of the last.week dealing with replacing and setting up a dead laptop that I dropped it myself -- twice in a row -- on the hard floor at.my mom's nursing home. So I won't be casting any aspersions on Theoden's dexterity or cognition. 😎)

Heh -- I just mentioned this suggestion to my husband, a former professional woodworker, and he admitted he had sometimes fantasized about stealing one when on those old trains. 😅

Yes! The changes are even worse than the cold. I have an iffy knee and I have cleats I put on my boots at a pretty low risk threshold. But CLEATS are a slipping hazard on tile floors (read: 99% of store or service buildings). I am SO TIRED of yanking them on and off!!

Been there. But I need at least an hour.

I mean, it's just RUDE!

Ooh, I totally should! My mom had a little one maybe 7 inches long that the hardware store called a "condo hammer." However, Maybe I'll leave it behind if taking the train to get on an airplane. 🙃 I mean, it seems like a totally normal reason to have to ME, but.... 😎

View of a wintry Ontario landscape seen through a train window. You can just make out a corner of the seat ahead of me. Two dark rectangle at the top of the window are the handles.

Ooh, I am the official Designated Window Exit volunteer in case of train emergency! I told the staff person who asked me I had had the spiel before but on an older train car model, and she clearly knew my type: "Ah, well, it's very similar but there's no little hammer on these so it's not as fun." 😎

Two hrs in to waiting for my train, & it'll likely be another 1 1/2. Outrageously, I won't get compensation for the full fare unless it's 4 hours late. This is my FOURTH 3+-hour-late train in the past year. I take the train about once a month.
Canada just doesn't take public transit seriously.

It dies not seem reasonable to wake up innocently on a day in MARCH and find it is -21 degrees (C) outside.