The worst is when you are watching a barn owl nesting box livestream and the biggest fluffiest owlet eats the tiniest owlet whole, and alive. The are seriously the ghouls of the owl world.
I sometimes wondered why the U.S. has significantly lower vasectomy rates in comparison with Canada, but now I wonder if maybe I should have instead been wondering why Canada’s vasectomy rates are higher. I would normally be reticent to trace such a widespread cultural/health trend all back to one single person, but in this article, Verwey really seems to have been that jumping-off point for a whole national conversation? Very cool.
Okay, that was the pre-1940 historian in me talking. Yeah, it’s totally paranoid… _for now_. ///ominous music\
It’s not _that_ paranoid. I’m not sure if militaries still do it, back when military strategists used to fill up their time with creating lots of hypothetical “what if we annexed this country?” scenarios, the U.S. did have plans for “how to annex Canada" on the books. And it was a subject that American newspapers openly mused about in the second half of the 19th c. as well.
WHAT? I can't believe it's actually called "The Root Cellar." And the thing is, that title was probably the reason I picked that book up in the first place. I think I loved root cellars even before I met that book. I also love potato houses (the kind that they have in New Brunswick up in "badayda" country where the air smells of french fries) and old houses that are still insulated with seaweed.
I remembered that I loooved A Handful of Time as a kid until I got to the part where you briefly summarize the plot, and then I realized that I had confused that book with a probably different children’s CanLit time-travel novel, one involving a root cellar? Yes, it was actually the root cellar book that I loved.
But really, Kit Pearson-esque books never really appealed to me very much. The settings felt so foreign to me (and I was just a Maritimer!) and I loved fantasy far more. O.R. Melling was a favourite for me. Canadians in Ireland travelling into the past or getting involved with the Faerie court? That was far more style.
I am rather torn. I find this singer magnetic, but also, he reminds me very strongly of the assassin Felix La PuBelle from _Grosse Pointe Blank_.
Is there any time that anaesthesia is recommended for cats with congestive heart failure? Because I don’t know if my cat would even survive the stress caused by driving to the vet.
I had the same experience. My cat is on long-term diuretics (managing congestive heart failure) so she needs more water (sort of like a kidney cat). I still have a bowl by her food dish, but once she is done eating she comes straight upstairs to my bedroom to drink from the bowl I keep there. It took me a little bit to get used to waking up in the early a.m. to the sounds of a cat lapping water, but she loves being able to snooze on the bed in the sun, have a little sip, then go back to sleep.
I am Canadian so I never came across that. Is that myth connected to how early folk collecters were SO EXCITED to discover how many Elizabethan ballads were still being sung and shared among the Appalachias into the early 20th c.?
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