Author: Allegra

Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.

Safely ensconced in Victoria

There were EIGHT turtles on a log in Deer Lake Park yesterday.  My last record was 5, so I guess this a really super duper wonderful spring.  The cherries have started blooming everywhere and my eyes are watering, so there you go.

I have reached 15000000 points in Peggle.  Yes, I have taken my first step into a larger world and bought my very first Xbox game.  I got it for Plants vs Zombies but I really like Peggle.  I’ll check out Zuma later.

Jeff bought a universal remote after I WHINED, and wheezed, and complained, and kvetched, and grumbled.  He’s just about finished programming it and IT ROCKS. I can do just about everything now, and if I screw up I just hit the power button and start from scratch.  Oh Jeff you is so good to me!

I have now eaten Schnitzel three days running, because I brung schnitzel to my ma n pa’s house and cooked it up for them and they were happy with the Om Nom Noms.

I gave my mOm a Unitarian hymnbook.  Any hymnbook that has Die Gedanken Sind Frei in it can’t be all bad.

Also CDs of two of my services, Garbage and the Seven Deadly Sins.

My next homily will be “I had a Comrade” and it will be on May 29th.  Be there or you know, be elsewhere.

The Restorative Justice regarding John went well according to those who have talked to us about it.

Now I’m going to jump in the car and go git me some beer and then I’m going to come back here and watch the Weaver’s farewell concert, or something fun and musical and not at all depressing like everything that seems to happen outside these walls.

Oh, and pOp got me a network cable so I’m blogging from the sunroom. THAT, friends and neighbours, is LOOOXury!

Miss Margot goes for a walk

Astonishingly, she came out the front door with me last night as I was on my way to Peggy’s to pick up soup (which I am going to now eat for lunch) and walked TWO WHOLE HOUSEWIDTHS down the sidewalk with me.

As soon as her house was out of eyeshot she sat down, nonplussed, and we slowly walked back to the house.  She has lost a lot of weight (for her) and is astonishingly frisky.  The same thing happened last spring, too.

Saw the psychologist today.  The meeting today seemed to have more relevance to church than home, work or ‘personal’ but it was still really useful.  He’s a good egg.

Up at 2:45 this morning

This early rising business MUST stop.  So I guess it’s time for a roundup.

Adult onset diabetes foreshadowing in rising level of 5 proteins.  Link here.

Lots of lawsuits won’t necessarily help your case.  Righthaven screwed up, but fair use rights have been protected.

A very commonly used contemporary chart about radiation exposure, which I only link to on the off chance one of my readers hasn’t seen it yet.  Here.

The “serpent storm” on Saturn.  via Nasa/Cassini.

The assault of the Repulsigans on women’s rights continues.  Honestly, though, the “Harper Government” would do the same thing if they thought they could get away with it; fortunately the Bloc Québecois would have a collective seizure if they tried to pass something like this.

The assault of the Repulsigans against anybody who dislikes factory farming continues.  In what universe is it illegal to take a picture of a farm? (link removed for security reasons).

From chipper, an ad for what she termed a ‘proofreader’s delight’.

Also from chipper, some lovely ‘supermoon’ pix from England.

I have no idea how church went yesterday, I was in the kitchen helping Peggy with coffee. Gave Carol a ride home and picked up some frozen fruit so I can make fruit toppings for pancakes a bit at a time.

 

At 2:35 am I woke up

And moonlight was falling on my hand.  I got up and stood on the back deck and looked at the moon for a while.  I remembered seeing the Hammer Codex of Leonardo da Vinci in Montreal almost a quarter century, being enraptured to see his handwriting with the translation. He spoke of how the wind was the breathing of this terrestrial machine, and how the moon “has no light of itself, and yet is luminous.”