Poop by any other name!

Gosh! those Chinese are really into recycling, (see article at the bottom of post) I certainly could learn a thing or two. What with the doggy do do, piles of moose droppings and the black sticky stuff that are bear turds all over my yard I could take a leaf out of their book and [...]

Here’s a nifty new gadget

I saw an advertisement on TV today for rubber keyboards that can be rolled up. Great to take with you and your laptop computer. Plus when you spill your coffee on your keyboard you can actually wash it off and they are not expensive. You can get a completely flat ones or ones [...]

Revisiting an old post with an update

I wrote this last September but there are some updates:
In British Columbia, our forests are being overtaken by the Mountain Pine Beetle, which threatens to destroy them in very short order. The trees are being harvested as quickly as possible, so that the wood can be used in buildings where the defects cannot be seen, [...]

I’ve entered the challenge

I have been blogging for some time now and am always looking for new ways to improve. I found this blog about a week ago One Man’s Goal and since there were a few posts that interested me I put it on my Google Reader to keep updated.
Today I read that he has issued a [...]

I’m mad, ticked off, hurt and upset

I am upset with my husband right now so I am going to let go some steam right here. It is a trivial thing really but he just doesn’t get it. He told me over supper this evening that I am getting a double chin. Well that is probably true I am sixty after all [...]

Memories of my Welsh Grandmother

I am currently reading a book called “Bronwen” by Hilda McKenzie, and so much of the book has brought memories back of my Welsh side of the family.
The story is based in the 1930’s in Cardiff and many times a description has reminded me of my childhood. I had Uncles and Aunts, now long dead, [...]

Good reason to be wary of bears

Another attack by wildlife this year. We have heard of moose attacking people, bears and cougars. We are invading their territory, what do we expect really. The moose had a very hard winter as the snow was so deep they could not escape predators easily and it was hard going through the snow. We had [...]

What were you doing when Armstrong walked on the moon?

At 10:56 pm EDT July 20, 1969 Astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. He spoke from 240,000 miles away to more than a billion people listening on earth. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on [...]

Cell phones shoud have rules of etiquette don’t you think?

People in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia are trying to stop Telus from bringing cellphone service to their neck of the woods so they can market the area as a ring-tone-free zone.
BC community does not want cell phone option
I am looking forward to when Telus gets around to giving small communities in British Columbia [...]

Firefox extensions

Firefox Extensions I use

Fleck – allows me to annotate web pages. Just downloaded have to see how useful it is.
Colorzilla – I can use an eyedropper to grab the code of a colour on a site, very useful
DapperFox – If I can’t find the RSS feed it will find it for me. Used a few [...]