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Agricultural workshops, swaps scheduled in Canton and Madrid
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 9:35 am

Local Living Venture is offering a "Start Your Garden Seedlings Indoors" session on May 4 from 1 to 3:30 p.m., with an optional farm tour following.

The workshop will be led by Birdsfoot Organic Farm coordinator and market gardener Dulli Tengeler.

Attendees will learn what containers to use for what plants, how to make your own potting soil from compost, how to fill containers and seed different crops (including some flowers). They will also transplant some vegetables and herbs as well as learn about timing the seeding, planting seedlings out, and different varieties.

Participants will be able to take home several organic seedlings of their own from the workshop. An RSVP for the location is necessary due to limited space.

There is a suggested donation of $15, $5 for students. Scholarships are available when registering. Contact 347-4223 or [email protected].

The Northern New York Poultry Fanciers are holding a swap meet at the Madrid Community Building on May 4 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be a raffle at 12:30 p.m., must be present or have someone pick up a prize to win.

Vendors are welcome.

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Chance meeting in Massena leads Clarkson prof to help woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease
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A chance meeting at a McDonald’s put a Clarkson University professor in a position to help out a woman from Massena suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Clarkson University Prof. Charles Robinson, the Herman L. Schulman Endowed chair in Rehabilitation Engineering and the founding director of Clarkson’s Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science and Technology, lost his wife to Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 2008 after a two-and-a-half-year struggle.

So when Becky Sieradski, diagnosed with ALS in April 2012, and a friend were talking not long ago at a restaurant and struck up a conversation with Robinson, who was seated nearby, the chance connection put Sieradski, who knew almost nothing about ALS when she was diagnosed, together with Robinson, who had come to know quite a bit about the disease.

Robinson had seen her wheelchair at the restaurant, and “When I heard ALS, I knew I could help,” said Robinson, now a member of the board of directors at the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter, located in Syracuse.

“I spoke with Becky about her needs and then began making phone calls to those who could help” her navigate her way through the devastating and ultimately fatal neuromuscular disease.

Robinson called a friend, Potsdam architect Brooks Washburn, who agreed to sketch a wheelchair ramp for her house, and he called the ALS Association chapter to determine if a power wheelchair was available from the equipment loan program.

Donations from friends bought the lumber for the ramp, and friends and members from the Massena Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses provided the brawn. The ramp at the house’s entrance was built in one week, allowing Sieradski to leave her home in her newly loaned power wheelchair.

“I’ve had so many compliments on the ramp,” she said.

“People are amazed at how sturdy it is. Thank you to everyone for your help,” she said.

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At peak of ATV season in St. Lawrence County, state officials issue warnings in hopes of reducing fatal accidents
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 10:07 am

At the peak of the all-terrain vehicle touring season in St. Lawrence County, the dangers and risks associated with the use of ATVs are being emphasized by the New York State Department of State’s Division of Consumer Protection.

There were a total of 327 ATV- related fatalities across the United States in 2011, and an estimated 107,500 ATV-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms that year.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that 29,000 of those injured were children less than 16 years of age.

Last year, the New York Department of State, under the auspices of the CPSC, conducted onsite visits of ATV dealerships in New York to see how well they were adhering to age recommendation guidelines and other safety requirements of federal law.

Out of the 10 dealerships visited by investigators, it was revealed that five dealer salespersons had recommended the sale of adult ATVs – by federal law, those for use by people aged 16 and older -- for a 14-year-old child.

Four of the dealer salespersons provided little or no information about ATV vehicle safety.

These findings stress the need for greater enforcement of the federal and state guidelines as well as more consumer awareness on the dangers and risks associated with ATVs, according to the Division of Consumer Protection.

The DCP offers these tips and guidelines for ATV purchasing and use:

• Review New York State’s ATV laws. Visit the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles website at

• Find out about ATV operation and safety guidelines. For those, visit the CPSC’s website at

• Be aware of age restrictions. No one under the age of 10 may ride or operate an ATV. Operators between 10 and 15 may ride an ATV only on their parent’s property if they are under their parent’s supervision or have a safety training certificate.

• Choose an ATV model appropriate for your child's age. Follow the state and federal guidelines and the manufacturer's Minimum Age Recommendation Warning Label on the ATV.

• Take an ATV training course. ATV drivers, including children under 16, should take a hands-on ATV safety course from a certified instructor. These courses are offered by the ATV Safety Institute, local ATV rider groups, some state departments of natural resources, state highway departments, and other agencies responsible for regulating ATV use.

• Use safety equipment. All riders (operator and passengers) should wear a DOT-compliant helmet, goggles, long sleeves, over-the-ankle boots and gloves, at all times.

• Obtain information from the dealer. When shopping for an ATV make sure the salesperson discusses the owner’s manual and any safety information in it from the manufacturer.

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This is an infrared audio receiver that receives audio information modulated on an infrared beam. The PC board on left is the receiver and a set of AA batteries power the receiver. This entire assembly mounts in a plastic meter case
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Fair Flora decks the flow'ry ground,
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While ev'ry hill and ev'ry vale
Appears unusual gay.

The pretty warblers of the grove
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Lead on, my Celia, quit the town,
And banish ev'ry care;
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Saturday, 17 July 2010

Me and the Zebra

Hello, hello.

Do you remember how, when I first introduced you to Zebra, in this post:... I promised to attempt to enlighten you as to why, despite being a relatively well-adjusted adult, I'd taken a plastic zoo toy on holiday with me?

Well, as promised here goes, I'll do my best: In short - it was for old time's sake - but allow me to explain properly ...

Zebra's creation myth begins approximately 15 years ago with a story my sister's oldest friend, a teacher, told her about a small girl she'd had in her reception class ....

The girl had carried a toy zebra with her everywhere she went and the adults around her recognised that she was using it as a comforter to help her through the daunting task of starting school. One day my sister's friend decided to address the issue with the zebra girl:

"Is he looking after you?" she asked.

"No ... I'm not scared." she replied "He is! I'm looking after him".

And, to be honest, that's really all I know about the girl who carried her zebra everywhere with her, just in case he got worried about being away from home.

At least, that's all I know about the original girl who carried her zebra everywhere, because there was another one who followed in her footsteps ...

Around the time I heard this story I was spending a lot of time at home myself. I had clinical depression and was afraid of most things and couldn't face going most places.

Which is when James bought me my own Zebra: As I gradually built myself up he used to go everywhere with me. The zebra, not James.

Although indeed James did actually have to go most places with me until I was back on my own two feet. Once I was, once I'd begun taking baby steps without my family and James beside me, Zebra took their place.

Well, like the little girl said ... he was scared of being out in the big wide world on his own so how could I leave him behind? He needed me. I was the brave one in the relationship.

So I kept him safe, in my pocket, while I went for walks to the end of the road and back to see how it felt to be outside alone.
Next he became my travelling companion when I managed to start taking trips by bus, after which
I let him come to college with me ... and then university, because he'd be anxious if he'd been left on his own.

Which is also why he had to come with me to work with me when I got my first 'real' job. And why he came along to every scary new place and social occasion in between. All of which goes some way to explain why his stripes bear scuffed and faded battle scars:But at least we won the war.

It's telling that, when I wanted to introduce him to you a few weeks ago, I couldn't find him.

I looked in the bureau in the hall, near where we keep our coats and bags. The place where he used to be kept within easy reach for whenever I went out and couldn't face leaving him behind ... Eventually, after looking in every pocket, bag, cupboard and dark place I could possibly contemplate having once upon a time left him, I found him in the back of the drawer I keep my belts in. Obviously!

And even though he's not afraid any more, I have it on very good authority that when I plunged my hand in that drawer and felt four small hard plastic feet poking out amongst the leather and fabric ... there was a great deal of relief at our being reunited.

For both of us.

So now what? What do we do together now he's no longer afraid of life?

Well, we start on a new journey together. We open an online shop. We start selling things I've created ... we see where we go from there.

It's a venture which could be daunting. It's one which could make you more vulnerable than you've been in a long time and it might just be enough to make you the tiniest bit scared .... if you're a zebra.

Luckily for him though ... he's got me.

  1. Awesome and brave, the pair of you.

  2. Soooo courageous! Not just in what the pair of you have achieved together but in sharing it with us too. Thank you! What an inspiration you are to all those of us who are often anxious and much afraid.
    Huge hugs

  3. all of which proves you are never too old to need a friend and never too young to need someone to lean upon. lovely story too.

  4. Great story, I love knowing the background on your shop name. He looks like a fine fellow indeed. I carried a rock with me for years. I found it in the driveway when I was a teenager and contemplating things that shouldn't be contemplated. I still have it, though like you and your zebra now I'm not quite sure where it is stashed.

  5. Zebra is very lucky to have found you. A zebra may feel a bit bipolar at times - find that things are very black and white, good and bad - and it takes a very special friend to help a zebra feel safe in a multi-coloured world.

    Of course, the other thing about zebras is that they don't like being taken for a ride, so you have to empathise without controlling them.

    He and you are great travelling companions

  6. Oh, my lovely friend. You have always been such an inspiration to me and never more so than right now. Because, every so often, I forget that there are people who understand - and then someone reminds me.

    Good luck with your newest venture. I can't think of anyone more deserving of good things x

  7. Thankyou for sharing your very inspiring story with us Julie and well done for managing to turn things round in your life, so brave!
    Good luck with The Carousel Zebra - can't wait to see it all! You are a truly talented lady!
    Jacqui :-)

  8. It was brave to share your story with us. So many people have problems with their mental health, at some point in their lives - I have - yet there are still so many taboos about discussing it, acknowledging it or admitting to it... I was ill after the breakdown of a (very) long-term relationship. I had a wonderful supporter and helper - who is now my husband - so I was lucky and didn't need a zebra. But I can relate to you and your zebra...
    Well done for turning your life around and getting back to a life outside as well as inside. I wish you success with your online shop. I am so glad I started mine (while recovering from a back injury). It's been great and has started to take off now.
    Remember you are in charge of it; you set the goals and you can go as fast - or slowly - as you wish.
    Let us know when it's fully up and running - I'd love to go and browse!

  9. What a beautiful and courageous story, thank you for sharing it. May you, James and zebra have many, many good things come your way. x

  10. Thank you all so much for your kind words and for sharing your own experiences.

    I'm always amazed in 'real' life just how often, when I've mention my experience of depression to someone, they've begun to tell me their own stories.

    I've found that through simple details, told honestly, others feel able to open up and share something they don't usually talk about.

    I was once wholly terrified that someone would find out my 'secret'. Now, a long time on, I am telling anyone who will read it on here, and your responses alone make it worth my while and answer any doubts I had about it.

    Thank you :)

  11. What a lovely story, Julie. I'm glad your zebra managed to let you get further away!

  12. So glad thew two of you `re back together again - and what a lovely tribute to him that he's in the name of your new shop!

  13. Aw Julie, such a moving story of you & your Zebra. Sending you a hug (((hug)))

  14. Lucky Zebra to have a friend like you. Is he coming to skipton I'd love to meet him?

  15. love everything about this :) and so LOVE the layout you dedicated to him!

  16. I came to this post following your link on July MinN post, Julie - I had noted it and thought I must go back to read that story - what I didn't expect was to be so moved by it. And I found myself really, really wishing my son had had a friend like zebra. You are a very courageous young lady to tell your story and mental ill-health is something we should indeed be more aware of and so much more tolerant of. I wish you and zebra many years together where he doesn't need you to take him out in quite the same way. Many (((hugs))), Jennie x

  17. Absolutely love your story and love that you shared it.
    Zebras are very awesome and our Zebra loving girl will love hearing your story.
    Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing the link to this post. It was wonderful to see your name in my inbox but even more special knowing all of this.xoxoxo

  18. I so love this! You are so brave to tell this story and for that I send you much love and respect.
    I had clinical depression some years and couldn't go anywhere on my own, I would not even go into the front garden alone. It took time, patience from those that I love, a great GP and of course medication. About a year on from my darkest days I went to London (on the train) on my own and it felt wonderful. I didn't have a zebra during this time, I just had support and a belief that I could get better. Thank you so much for sharing.

  19. I love this. So honest and helpful and true. Reminded me at the end quite deeply of the velveteen rabbit ( one of my favourite stories)

  20. I love this. So honest and helpful and true. Reminded me at the end quite deeply of the velveteen rabbit ( one of my favourite stories)

Thanks for leaving me a comment, asking me a question, sharing your own story or just randomly saying hello.


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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Chilly ...

I tood the ds trick or treating last night ... and boy, was it cold ! We went for about 2 hours and I couldn't take anymore, so we went out for dinner. We both had a cup of hot chocolate and it hurt my teeth I was so cold.

Ah, but the ds got a ton of candy I will probably end up throwing away because he will forget about it or get tired of it for a while. Thank goodness. There is a local dentist who pays you for your halloween candy by the pound ... I should do that!

Well, 'Nifer is off to ol Mississippi ... if she drove straight through, she would be there by now, but I haven't heard from her yet. I hope she stopped for a couple hours of sleep though, that's a long haul when you are driving by yourself.

I am lost right now. My friend Mel said it best when she asked "Is it baseball season yet?" ... I'm ready ... I want it back. I need something to focus on.

Mellie said...

Seriously, is it baseball season yet??????

Peter N said...

It's not baseball season yet, but Novy, when you put your mind toward your blog, I (we, all of us), are so happy. I am a reader...forever. Enjoy our Wednesday......Peter

JTT said...

Trick or Treat! I miss my son dressing up! It was so much fun. So what was he??

Novella said...

nananananana BATMAN !

One day I will post a pic of his costume ... it had flashing lights and everything !


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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Parenting Stories

When Aiden and I get in the car in the mornings to go to daycare/work, I let him bring a cup of water and a snack cup of dry cereal.  He usually has cereal leftover that he eats during the ride home.  That way he's not miserably cranky when we get home and I have a minute to make dinner before a meltdown.  The water, however, is generally too hot to drink in the evening after a day baking in the car.  But the other day, he had Goldfish crackers for some reason and he was asking for a drink of water.  I felt bed for him with his dry, cracker mouth so I tested out his water.  It was cloudy that day, so the water was only warm.  I decided to go ahead and let him have a drink.  I handed him the cup and told him he could have a drink of it, but it was hot.

He took a drink of the water, took the cup out of his mouth and stared quizzically at it for a minute.  Then he looks at me and says, "Coffee?"

The kid thinks any hot beverage is coffee.  Cracks me up every time.

Continuing with Aiden's tendency to generalize everything, he thinks all skulls are pirates.  He has a book about pirates and we've watched Pirates of the Caribbean a few times.  He's noticed the skull and crossbones on the black pirate flag, so now he associates it with pirates.  With Halloween being right around the corner, there is an abundance of skulls around.  He is constantly screaming, "Pirates!"  I look around for a pirate only to find a skull of some sort.  At least I know what he's talking about now.

He also wants to go to the store every day after daycare.  Sometimes when I need just a few items, I'll run by Target on my way out of town.  Aiden loves it.  I'm not sure why.  I guess we frequently stop in the toy section for a birthday present and he gets to play with everything.  Maybe that has something to do with it.

To go to the store we have to pass a statue.  So when he gets in the car, he starts screaming, "'Tore! 'Tatoo!"  Most of the time, I have to say, "No, we're going to go past the trains and then go home."  Statue and store, or trains and home.  Funny what my life has reduced to.  ;)

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This tutorial will learn you how to create a simple layout containing a wallpaper in the background and a calendar object.
  1. Start Wallpaper Cycler and add some wallpapers or open an existing wallpaper cycler list.
  2. Click on "My Layouts" in the tree on the left of the main window.
  3. Choose "Layouts > Add Layout...".
  4. The layout editor is now opened and we can now start creating our layout.
  5. To start with, give this layout a nice name with the properties bar at the right of the window. For example: "Tutorial Layout 1".
  6. Then, choose "Objects > Add Wallpaper Object" and drag a rectangle on the drawing canvas by clicking the left mouse button, moving the mouse and releasing the left mouse button. Afterwards, you can click the object with the left mouse button and move the object to fit it nicely in the upper-left corner of the canvas. Then click with the left mouse button in the little black rectangle in the lower-right corner of your new wallpaper object to resize it to fit the light gray canvas.
  7. Next, we will add our calendar. Choose "Objects > Add Calendar Object" and again drag a rectangle on the canvas where the calendar should appear. The result should look like:
  8. (optional) If you wish to customize your calendar object, select your new calendar object by clicking on it and then click on "Edit..." In the properties bar on the right of the layout editor. A new window will appear allowing you to customize your calendar. Use the "Import..." button to import a preset. There are some presets installed in your Wallpaper Cycler folder. Once done, close the calendar editor.
  9. Our layout is now finished, so we close the layout editor.

The layout is now ready for use. To try it out, open a wallpaper category, click with the right mouse button on a wallpaper and choose "Set As Wallpaper Using Layout > X" where X is the name you gave to your new layout.

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Other uses for the deck

So far the deck has been used for hula-hooping, playing with the dog, playing guitar, practising violin, holding a good-bye party for some friends, barbequeing dinner... and this family past-time, reading.

Fiona has rollicked her way through both Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, plus another easy reader type chapter book, in less than 5 days. Like with her kids' marathon and her violin practicing she's always been good at slow-and-steady stuff. These are not the most challenging nor the biggest books she's read. But she's reading so much faster now, and for much greater lengths of time, so that the brief time it's taken her to read through these is unprecedented.

The last few days she's been making me laugh so hard with her impetuous little admonishments. She really 'gets' her mom and knows how to make me laugh and get what she wants at the same time ... clever little thing!

Example 1:

F: (is nattering on about something, asks a question ...)
M: (distracted) Hmmm.... I don't know.
[a minute of silence ... M is on the computer and has forgotten F is even there]
F: (in M's face with that glint in her eye -- she already knows the answer) Mommy, do you really not know, or were you just not paying any attention to what I was saying?

Example 2:

F is reheating waffles in the toaster. This part she does by herself, but she doesn't like pouring the maple syrup and always asks for help. I am nearby, but busy with cleaning and tidying.
F: My waffles popped up!
M: Mmm-hmm.
[silence ... M continues with housekeeping]
F: (in M's face with that glint in her eye again) Isn't that supposed to mean something to you?

I poured the maple syrup.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Feet up

A day with nothing scheduled for me and the kids! Erin went to work. Fiona and I practiced together. The other kids did their practicing -- outside, in some instances. Dirt got shovelled and raked. Chickens got fed. London Fogs got made, and drunk.

Fiona and I went for a hike. We collected special rocks, as usual. There was hula-hooping on the deck. There was a teenager on the phone on the deck for almost two hours. Said teenager also did four hours of practicing, so who's complaining? Not I.

I tried a slow, easy 6km run today. SI joint pain was a minimal 2/10 and I'm stiff and a good bit more sore afterwards. But overall it's nowhere near as bad as it was last week, so I think I'll do another easy run tomorrow.

Supper was green salad, sweet potato fries with curry yogourt dip, and Essence of Waldorf Salad. Mmm. We haven't had the latter for ages, but our Gravenstein apple tree is overflowing with crisp tart green fruit and I decided to give this salad a whirl again. The kids were fairly unimpressed, but Chuck and I loved it as always.

Essence of Waldorf Salad

5 large sticks of celery
3 medium-sized tart green apples
1 cup lightly toasted walnut pieces
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbsp. cider vinegar
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. mild prepared horseradish
1 Tbsp. dijon mustard

Chop celery. Core apple and chop. Put apple and celery in a bowl with walnut pieces. Mix together remaining ingredients to make dressing. Dump over the salad and mix.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Around the deck

Minimalist railings. We opted to install them just in the area with the significant drop. It's less than a metre's drop off the area in front of the chairs. The kids have done aikido; they ought to be able to handle a fall like that. We're thinking that hemp rope horizontals between the railing uprights might be nice. It might take a while.

The apron area at the far end is tentatively where we'll put our deck table and chairs, if we ever purchase any. But we realized it's also the perfect size for a string quartet to rehearse or perform. Perhaps someone makes those huge canvas and teak market umbrellas with a quartet of music stand desks attached to the upright, you think?

I've been busy moving rocks again. A year ago I moved them all away, now I'm moving them all back. But this time they'll stay. Coincidentally the flagstones originally came from up Retallack way, just a couple of kilometres east of the part of the running map I showed on my last post.

What's not shown in this photo is the lump of dirt. It's about as tall as me and the apron of flagstones leads directly to it. It's what was created when the machine graded the earth back in front of the house to make space for the deck. As soil goes it's not bad -- it's just in a bad place. Gradually, shovelful by shovelful, I'm moving it into the area just in front of the deck to create a garden of shrubs, flowers and herbs.

You can probably imagine that the endless shovelling and rock-hauling are not the best things for a person trying to rest her inflamed sacroiliac joint, but hey, call me stupid, I'll answer.

The planters on the deck contain the herbs we salvaged from the herb garden that used to be where the main part of the deck is now. I made dozens of pints of mint-jalapeno and mint-rosemary jelly and still there was mint left over, much of which got mashed by the machine. I expect it will be growing up between the decking before long. It's already begun springing anew from the lump of dirt.

This walkway (photo: right) is protected beneath the roof overhang and will therefore remain dry and clear of snow. However the drip line of the roof is directly in front of it. To prevent a muddy trench from developing, I'm creating a karenagare, a dry stream bed. It's a good place to put all the rocks I'm pulling out of the lump of dirt, but it also looks nice I think and softens a bit of the harsh geometry of the deck lines. It'll get bigger as we work, and it will ultimately be the place we put all the "favourite rocks" we traditionally bring home from the beaches we visit.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Runniversary 5

Sad update. I'm currently sidelined by inflammation in my sacroiliac joint (lower back / hip). Tried to run through it. Ran 14 miles last weekend, quite fast, and that turned a twinge into an injury. Speedwork on Tuesday made it worse. Even an easy run on Thursday was too much. It doesn't actually feel bad while I'm running, except just at the very beginning. Afterwards is a killer though. Can't roll over in bed, can't lift my leg to get out of the van.

So I'm being sensible, even though it's just about killing me. Rest. Ice. Stretching. No running. It's now improving, quickly. Almost no pain today. Good.

I started my 10-week half marathon training schedule two weeks early just to build in a contingency for things like this. So it's okay. But I really miss the running. I'm going to wait until Tuesday and try an easy run, then take it from there.

Month 5 has been good overall though. Even during the music school weeks I managed to get my runs in. My speed has continued to improve. Last week I ran the first 21.1 km (half marathon distance) of a hilly long run in 2:01:03, which is just a minute and four seconds over my dream goal for my not-hilly October race. I am absolutely loving my Garmin GPS running gizmo. The image above is an example of part of one of my routes, plotted automatically by the Garmin and its on-line software, using GoogleEarth. The Garmin keeps me on track with my pace, preventing me from pushing too hard on easy days.

This week I ordered some winter running gear. Gloves, a hat, an insulated water bottle holder, some grippy things for my shoes, a long-sleeved tech shirt. My race in Calgary in 6 weeks could begin at temperatures as low as freezing, and I won't be anywhere I can shop for this stuff before then. It seemed judicious to plan ahead. I know I won't need the grippy things until November at the earliest, but heck, any excuse to shop for running gear. But fall is coming. Already the temperatures here are moderating; one recent night up on the pass I could actually see my breath. I love running in cool temperatures. Then it got up to 31 C again yesterday. August again! It was a good day to be resting.

My goal of 500 miles by the end of 2009 is looking ridiculously conservative now. I'm sitting at 451 miles completed. Once I'm back on a regular running schedule I'll hit 500 in less than two weeks. Time to start thinking about new goals.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Decked out

Big progress. Steps and railings to follow. Some day, maybe soon.

Worthy furniture somewhat desperately required.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Doctor thoughts

I've been given this thing, a doctor award, for my involvement in the sexual health clinic in a neighbouring town. I've been providing them with physician services for 12 years, about once a month. It's a very quiet clinic most of the time, with a small client base, but the teen pregnancy rate has dropped dramatically since we started it. I don't mind the work; I actually like working with adolescents, which is what most of our client base is, and this little corner of medicine is something I'm reasonably competent at.

I am, however, humbled and disconcerted by the award. It involves an all-expenses-paid trip to Vancouver, an awards ceremony, a bio and headshot published in a brochure and the opportunity to say a few words. Yikes! I don't at all like being publicly recognized for my work. I had no idea my clinic had nominated me, and would have asked them not to if I'd known this was in the works. The award is in memory of an MD who died while doing a medical evacuation of a woman in labour in a remote corner of our province. He too worked in his community's sexual health clinic where he was known for his compassion and his ability to make his co-workers feel valued and respected.

I feel inadequate being recognized for my doctor work with an award in memory of this guy. I am, as I tell people, "barely a doctor." As the years have gone by my maternity leave from full-time medical practice has become fairly permanent. First I chose to return only to an extremely part-time practice. A few years later I stopped covering the ER and let my hospital privileges drop. A year or so I decided that due to a lack of ongoing breadth of experience with general medicine I needed to limit my scope of practice to well-woman care and sexual health issues. And so my medical expertise and contribution continues to shrink.

Yeah, I think I do some pretty okay work with young teens, I'm open-minded in providing prenatal care to people who are drawn to natural and alternative medicine and birth plans, I'm slick with Pap smears and I can juggle birth control pills and insert IUDs. I have good relationships with my outreach clinic staff and volunteers. I drive 40 mountainous minutes each way through winter nights to staff a quiet clinic in a town that doesn't have anyone else to do the job. I feel a sense of obligation to the clinic I helped start. But I do so little of it! Even if you do something well and reliably it seems unjust to be honoured for it when there are so many people who work so much harder at it than you do.

So can I make my peace with this? My preference would be to plead parenting obligations and bail on the trip to Vancouver but I know that I owe it to the staff who nominated me to accept it with gratitude and graciousness. Sometimes I wish I didn't have this other life as a doctor; it can be awkward.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

VSSM wrap-up

It was a very good week at VSSM. Usually the VSSM (traditional strings & piano camp) feels like a bit of a let-down after the SVI (Suzuki strings) week that precedes it, but this year there was minimal foot-dragging and sighing, and a lot of good things happened.

Fiona did the junior piano class. She had barely touched the piano since her lessons had ended unexpectedly in early June. It was a nice opportunity to re-kindle that interest. She was the youngest in the class by a couple of years but held her own beautifully. She loved the teacher. The 3-hour-long morning class flew by for her with a combination of four-hands duet coaching by a senior student, solo master-class instruction, theory and history games and activities, singing and dancing to learn about baroque dances and inventions. She also did Allison's lovely Family Choir with me in the afternoons.

Sophie was one of the junior-est students in Orchestra 1. On Monday I wondered if we'd made a mistake. Because she'd been in the senior orchestra and ensemble during SVI, and had been placed there in her first string quartet to boot, she hadn't got around to doing any work on the VSSM orchestra music until the day before. The tempos were fast, and the part full of divisi, double-stops and sudden tempo / pizzicato changes. But she's a strong reader for her level and has a good ear, so by Wednesday she was doing just fine. This was certainly the most advanced orchestra experience she'd ever had and she really seemed to enjoy it in the end. Orchestra was scheduled at the same time as Family Choir, and Sophie didn't feel quite old enough or confident enough to join adult choir instead, so that was the extent of her enrollment. She had fairly easy days and lots of down-time.

Noah was also in Orchestra 1. He had played most of the music (Warlock's Capriol Suite) before and so the lack of preparation time was not a big issue for him. He also participated in Adult Choir, which he had done last year. And of course he's sung in the adult Community Choir for a year, so this was a comfortable thing for him. He did really well in the choir, looking confident and blending his voice really nicely. He capped the week off by doing a successful audition for Allison's Corazon youth choir. He's equally thrilled and terrified, I think. He'll be one of three boys with unchanged voices and one of the youngest people in a huge mass of older teens.

Erin was doing the Advanced Piano class in the morning, playing piano in a Mozart violin-cello-piano trio in the early afternoon and doing Adult Choir with Noah in the late afternoon. This is the same kind of roster she's had for the past few years and I expected her to be the sigh-er and foot-dragger, since her piano motivation was at an all-time low. She was certainly not jubilantly enthused by the week, but she got some pretty strong encouragement from the advanced piano teacher, practiced piano for the first time in recent memory, and had a very successful performance of the Mozart as a result of her cramming. She also squeezed in a lesson with one of her Calgary-based violin teachers, a sort of technique-diagnostics lesson, in order to help her teacher begin to formulate a plan for advanced technique development over the next year.

Yesterday began with the junior piano duet and solo recital for Fiona at 9 a.m., continued with Erin's advanced solo piano recital at 10 a.m., broke for lunch and then final rehearsals for chamber groups, orchestra and family choir, continued with an afternoon concert for choir and piano duets in the big hall, then the final adult choir rehearsal and the evening concert featuring Erin's chamber trio, the Adult Choir and Noah's and Sophie's orchestral suite performance. It was nice to sleep in this morning.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A plan

It's a preliminary plan, but here's the general idea.

Week 1: I drive Erin and Noah to Calgary. Stay overnight at motel. Noah has a lesson early the next morning and then he and I drive home. Erin stays for four days at her teachers' home getting at least two violin lessons and possibly a piano lesson (with whom? no idea...), accompaniment session, recital etc., then comes home on the overnight bus. She arrives in time for choir, and can take part in Summit Strings.

Week 2: Erin is home, attends the school's Facilitated Learning Lab part-time. Practices her brains out, attends choir, accompanies at group class, plays in the community orchestra.

Week 3: Erin buses to Calgary, spends four days, repeating the lessons and other sessions. Buses home, does choir and Summit Strings.

Week 4: Repeat of Week 2.

Bus schedules are not ideal, but workable. I'll be doing an extra 10 hours of driving a month to get her to and from towns served by bus routes. Will it kill me? Who knows. I'll still only be driving to Calgary once a month at most, for Noah's lesson. I'll be spending one day a month less in Calgary too, saving a night at the motel, since we'll be doing the turnaround the same day. She'll be able to continue all her local activities with the exception of Community Choir. It's a sacrifice she's willing to make even though she loves that choir. Will this work for her Calgary teachers/billeting family? They seem more than willing to have her, amazingly, generously enough.

She's very excited about this plan. Lots of discussing, exploring and arranging left to do, but this is a post which has only three question marks, so that's some sort of progress.

Out the kitchen door

We used to call it the "front door," except that for the past couple of years it hasn't been easy to navigate, with a 2-foot drop into sand and gravel. So we've just been calling it the "kitchen door" and almost everyone has come in and out the back door from the carport.

But it may be the Front Door again soon. Look at what is gracing it! A deck is taking shape with impressive speed.

Where's Erin?

Photo by Fiona

Music education decisions -- the next phase

It's been almost two years since we began monthly or bi-monthly violin lesson trips to Calgary for Erin. She'd outgrown the local teachers, had taken five months off lessons entirely after the sudden retirement of her Nelson teacher, and had then discovered that she really did have the drive and motivation to pursue violin. She had an excellent summer-workshop relationship with a terrific Calgary-based teacher and seemed willing to do almost anything in order to be able to study with her. So we started doing the big drive. Once a month, except when scheduling was impossible.

Alas, 8 or 10 lessons a year are not sufficient for a 15-year-old who is considering a performance career. The world of string playing is extremely competitive; the kids Erin will be compared to if/when she applies to music schools are practicing three hours a day (as she sometimes does) but are also getting weekly private lessons, chamber group, technique classes, regular opportunities to work with accompanists and perform, youth orchestras. Mostly they're getting very focused attention to the refinement of their technique through weekly diligent overseeing by teachers who are preparing them for future careers in music. She needs to be getting the same type of experience.

Erin's current lesson arrangement is really that of a self-taught violinist getting occasional bits of input on repertoire from guest teachers. That's how it's felt for everyone involved, I think. It's just not going to be enough to ensure a performance career. If that's what she wants, which she seems to.

Then there's piano. She has had little to no interest in piano for the past 18 months. Practicing has averaged half an hour a week. Her long-time teacher has a little experience teaching at her level, but isn't a performer herself, doesn't play at this level, and has no accompanying expertise. Accompanying is really where Erin's interest, what there is of it, lies. Lessons have been spotty due to travel (by both Erin and her teacher) and lack of motivation.

At the beginning of this week Erin had finally decided to announce her decision to quit piano lessons. She's doing the Advanced Piano program at the Valhalla Summer School of Music again this summer, but is feeling like a hypocrite, having played almost no piano since last fall. I had a short conversation with her teacher explaining that it was pretty clear this was Erin's swan song on piano.

This week Erin has been taken aside for chats by both a visiting piano professor and by her Calgary violin teachers. The [pretty well-known] piano guy has worked with her in chamber groups for two summers now and basically told her that if she was indeed interested in pursuing music at the post-secondary level he'd love to work with her ... especially in collaborative piano (accompanying), which she's clearly got a talent for. He asked how old she was, how many more years of high school she has left, gave her his e-mail address. She didn't have the heart to tell him that her interest in pursuing music at university was not in piano, or that she'd just decided to finally quit piano. Truth be told she was very flattered, and rightly so. "Darn!" she told me afterwards. "He just messed me up. I'd finally decided to quit, and now this!?"

Her violin teachers, a husband-and-wife team, have been up-front about her prospects for ongoing musical development. If she wants to really dig in and work for a music career she needs weekly lessons. Or close. They've offered to let her stay with them in Calgary. Wow. Maybe this is something she can do part-time, for a few days every other week or something, busing back and forth? She's now old enough to travel the long bus routes without an adult escort (younger children can travel unaccompanied but only on daytime routes less than 5 hours). Does she feel ready to move? Not really, because not having school or some other program to slot right into, she would be a kid living with two very very very busy adults who can't really act in loco parentis. It would be a lot of arduous travelling for her to go back and forth like that, but maybe she could do it? She could probably continue with her self-directed schooling here, using the Facilitated Learning Lab when she's in town, working from afar when she's in Calgary.

But how would she do chamber music? Or get orchestral experience? And could she keep up her two wonderful choirs?

And what about piano?

Have I ever used this many question marks in a blog post?

Summer job proceeds

Erin's summer job at the café has netted her this. She had accumulated enough savings to purchase the very first personal kid-computer in our home. The four kids share a desktop computer, but it's used almost entirely for collaborative gaming rather than personal work. Erin has long pined for her own laptop with which to curl up on the couch or in her cabin, and write, surf the internet, manage her immense iTunes library, do schoolwork and so on. She's made use of Chuck's cast-off laptops limping along on their last legs, but the last of those expired a few months ago and since then she's carved out a Documents folder on my computer and used it. I'm almost as thrilled as she is that she now has her own computer -- less competition for my computer!

Her Dell Inspiron arrived by Purolator yesterday. In the middle of the Valhalla Summer School of Music. She's managed to find a few minutes here and there to configure and install things.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

SVI Images

It's the fifth annual Suzuki Valhalla Institute, bigger and better than ever. It feels like we're spending 15 hours a day there, soaking it all up, wishing there was more.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Kid's Marathon

This morning Fiona completed the final 2 kilometres of her 42.2 km Kid's Marathon challenge. Her parents had ordered her a medal to commemorate the accomplishment.

We found a little spur connecting two longer trails that has a reasonable grade, is relatively shaded and exactly 1000 metres in length. We've run it, back and forth for 2 km, approximately every second day for the past 5 weeks.

It's been a wonderful exercise in simplicity and in the value of time spent with a child doing something together over and over. Over the weeks we've felt the temperatures and humidity increase. We've smelled the wildflowers and fruit blossoms and noticed how they've changed. She's learned to pace herself, to feel the subtle difference in the uphill and downhill grade and adjust her pace accordingly. She's got stronger and more fit. She's learned the landmarks of the run, and how to estimate 100 metres, or half a kilometre. She's able to identify bear scratches on the trees, deer hair on the ground, to differentiate purple asters from purple knapweed (the latter a noxious weed, which we pull by hand every time we spot it along the trail). We've watched the cherries along the trail swell and redden and used them to power the return leg of our runs. Fiona named them Original Organic Sport Cherries. We've tasted their sweetness day by day as it peaked. We've watched the leftover ones darken and wrinkle, or show up in the bear scat along the trail. We talk when we run; heck, we often run holding hands. But what we talk about is mostly what we notice. And as the weeks have gone by, we've noticed more and more.

And still there's always more to notice. What a rich world we live in.

That fiery glow

It was two years ago to the day that we were cut off by a wildfire to the south that threatened our community with evacuation and almost shut down the Suzuki Valhalla Institute.

The 2009 SVI starts today and overnight the smoke has rolled in again. I smelled it all night and this morning when the sun came up it threw an eerie yellow-orange cast rather than its usual transparent light.

The fire is a long way from us, probably 70-80 kilometres, but it's uncontrolled, and they're attempting prescribed burns to help contain parts of it. So there's a lot of smoke. We can barely see the top of the mountain we live near the base of through the haze, and everything smells like a campfire.

It certainly brings back memories of 2007.

This year's SVI T-shirts are royal blue, a cooling, cleaning, water-inspiring colour. Let's hope that helps.

Stupid run

Once a week I do an LSD, a "long slow distance" for my run. Yesterday I went looking for a flattish 13 miler and decided to run a loop out a secondary highway I know well and back along a trail I don't know well. I'd biked the trail a few times 10+ years ago and remembered it as a lovely gradual downhill meandering along a creek and through subalpine meadows. I'd also skied it in the winter and I know it's still used a fair bit by skiers.

Well, a lot can happen to a trail over the years. My first clue should have been that the first 100 yards required me to hold my arms in front of my face to push the bushes out of the way, crouching to keep my eyes on the trail. But then it opened up; there were some bike tire marks and ATV tracks. Perhaps I should have considered the likelihood that they had been there for quite a while, since before things started growing?

It turned out most of the trail was really overgrown with lush summer vegetation. I doubt anyone had been through there in a couple of months. Weeds, including burdock, thistle and wild rose, up past my knees, slashing at my bare shins. Lots of places the alder and other bushes had me bushwhacking again. And then at mile 3 the bridge was gone, the bank having washed out, leaving me with a 3-metre wide mucky bit of thigh-deep water to ford. Backtracking would have turned my 13-miler into an 18-miler, so I went on. Plunged in.

Then to top it off the end of the loop I'd plotted out had "no trespassing" signs on the spur I needed, so I had to run an extra mile and a half, down into a gravel pit and then up a nasty grunt of a hill in full 9 a.m. sunlight. Uggh.

So I ran 14.65 miles, through marsh and weeds and muck and water, and it took me forever. Just over 2 1/2 hours. Epic.

My shoes will likely never forgive me, but they're almost ready to be retired anyway, so that's okay. They used to be white and silver. Now their worn greyness is cast in sharp relief by the ambitious bright-blueness of their successors-in-waiting, my Nike Lunarglides.

I guess the take-home message is "know your trail."


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Quaters, Benjamin Morgan, George W. and John Rust 1848
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Eggplant with Buttermilk Sauce

First and foremost, I wanted to say how excited I was when we bought Yotam Ottolenghi's new-ish vegetarian cookbook, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi.  All of the recipes in there looked so interesting and the pictures were so beautiful, but I kept picking it up and putting it down because we already have so many freaking cookbooks.  I just didn't want to buy another.  But I am really excited that I finally caved.  Second, my pictures of this dish look awful compared to the pictures in the cookbook.  Just look at the cover of Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi and you can't help but be impressed by how utterly gorgeous his food (and the pictures of his food) is.  And then you look at my picture.  And the eggplant kind of looks like a... well I'm not going to say it because it's not at all appetizing.  But my pictures are nowhere near as pretty.

Since this recipe is the picture on the front cover of the book and therefore a large part of the reason that I bought the book, I thought it was a fitting first dish for us to make.  And if this dish is representative of the other recipes in the cookbook, I am infinitely glad that we did.  Of the two of us, I thought that I would be a bigger fan of this dish but it turned out that Alex was.  He said that love was too strong of a word, but he "enjoyed" the dish and described it as having an interesting blend of flavors - the buttermilk/yogurt sauce was kind of tangy and the pomegranate gave it a nice sweetness without the whole thing being too sweet.  I would agree with all of his comments, but add that the fresh thyme was a really nice herbal (slightly floral) addition.  The eggplant itself was almost creamy and with the pop of the pomegranate seeds you ended up with a nice textural contrast as well.  My one complaint is that some bites of the dish just weren't as well seasoned as others, but you run into that problem with most roasted vegetables.  I know we make that comment/criticism of a lot of roasted squash recipes.  The layer of eggplant at the top that really absorbed the evoo and buttermilk sauce was delicious.  The layer that you scraped off the bottom (even after the addition of more buttermilk sauce) was less so.  All things considered it was a really interesting dish.  It was not my favorite dish that we have ever made, but the recipe is definitely worth trying.

Recipe after the jump!

Eggplant with Buttermilk Sauce
Adapted from Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi
By Yotam Ottolenghi

2 large and long eggplants
1/4 cup olive oil, plus 2 tbsp lemon evoo
1 1/2 tsp thyme leaves, plus additional sprigs for garnish
sea salt
black pepper
pomegranate seeds
1 tsp za'atar
For sauce
9 tbsp buttermilk
1/2 cup Greek yogurt
1 1/2 tbsp evoo
1 small garlic clove, pasted with a pinch of salt

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.  Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise, cutting through the stalk.  Use a small sharp knife to make three or four parallel incisions in the cut side of each eggplant half (without cutting through the skin) and then repeating in the opposite direction to create a diamond-shaped pattern.

Place the eggplant halves, cut side up, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.  Brush with olive oil until the oil is absorbed by the flesh.  Sprinkle with thyme leaves and season with s&p.  Roast for 35-40 minutes, until the flesh is soft and nicely browned.  Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

While the eggplants are roasting, whisk together all of the ingredients for the sauce.  Taste for seasoning.  Keep cold until needed

To serve, spoon plenty of buttermilk sauce over the eggplant halves without covering the stalks.  Sprinkle with za'atar and plenty of pomegranate seeds.  Garnish with additional thyme leaves.  Finish off with a drizzle of lemon evoo

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NYPD committed Crimes in my Case and how many other cases?

They love using Ron Kuby's letter to pretend I was not coerced and the NYPD did not commit a pile up of crimes.
The Detectives in my case Det Vergona and Det Andy Dwyer, their partners, and supervisors and facebook friends NYPD PO Eugene Schatz aka Gene Schatz and Det Tommy Moran were party to the fact Verogna was lying in his DD5s and was going to verbally violently threaten me over the phone because the cowardly criminal detectives and supervisors did not have it in them to commit the crimes they committed and face me but they did use Ron Kuby's letter to pretend they dd not commit crimes and Internal Affairs has protected them along w/ top brass all party to retaliation.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Mayor De Blasio I Call Mr. Peters 911 Today v Month ago said call Internal Affairs

Mr Peters, Mayor De Blasio, Mr Eure: I attempted to report 911 Tech corruption to Mr. Peters who referred me to IAB.  I have documentation.  I would like an apology and action.  I am now reporting that Mr. Bratton and Mr Dowd hosted a board meeting for FirstNet at 1 Police Plaza and in my opinion this is not ethical. Did Mr. Dowd receive anything for being a board member? Please let me know do I report this to DO or IAB because my case proved to me IAB cant police the police. IAB cant police 911 Tech corruption.  Also when is NYC Gov going to take responsibility to what happen to me and force the NYPD IAB to make arrests including Det Vergona who IAB let retire. He coerced me coercion is a crime

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2014/04/911-tech-corruption-doi-refers-u-to-iab.html?m=1  Date of 2 previous calls where Mark Peters blew me off.  I thought it was very strange -- he is head of DOI so it is his job to investigate now refer me to IAB.

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SI man struck by train saving ‘drunk’ dies

A selfless Staten Island hero struck by a train while saving a drunken filmmaker who stumbled onto the tracks last month succumbed to his injuries today.

Steven Santiago, 39, died early this morning at Staten Island University Hospital after initially surviving a massive head injury he suffered while saving Jonathan Parisen, 40, from certain death Jan. 8.

Parisen went down onto the Staten Island Railway tracks in New Dorp at around 1:30 a.m. that morning — either to grab his shoes or on a drunken lark — while a Tottenville-bound train barreled toward the station, authorities said.

The ill-fated hero, who relatives said had just turned his life around, pulled the inebriated man up to the platform but Santiago was unable to pull himself out of the way in time. The train slammed into Santiago, causing massive head trauma.

Over the past several weeks, Santiago had recovered enough to move from the hospital to a long-term rehab, sources said. He took a tragic turn for the worse Friday night and was returned to the hospital’s emergency room, sources said. He died at 3:42 a.m.

Parisen was charged with criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, and released on $2,500 bail.

When a Post reporter approached the filmmaker at the 120th Precinct stationhouse to ask if he would like to thank the hero who saved him, Parisen callously said, “No, I have nothing to say.”

Parisen was more considerate today, posting on Twitter: “I was just informed that Steven Santiago passed away today. My prayers go out to Steven and his family. God bless.”

The filmmaker had gone on Twitter after the accident to ask friends to pray for Santiago.

Neither Parisen nor Santiago’s family members could be reached immediately by The Post for comment.

Parisen, of East Orange, NJ, wrote, produced and directed “Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center” in 2002, a tribute to firefighters which nevertheless angered some critics who felt it came out too soon after the terror attacks.

More recently, he was working on a flick called “Terrobot” about a giant robot that attacks New York City.


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Lucia Anglican conversions to Rome far more high profile now

Anglicanism is being rescued by Pope Benedict. Who would have thought! The old ecumenism is dead...

The ordination of women, the consecration of women bishops, the rationalization of homosexual unions, the doctrinal apostasy and the open moral degeneracy has led Benedict XVI to conclude that the new ecumenism is not a diplomatic building of bridges, but a bold establishment of a new kind of Anglicanism within the greater fold of the Catholic Church.

Fr Dwight Longenecker on Anglican Catholics Then and Now ~ Catholic Online

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leftrightout said...

Not sure how much rescuing is going on here, as religious belief in the UK continues to decline amongst all groups except the least educated. More like shuffling Titanic deck chairs.

The next UK census will show that atheists outnumber any single religious grouping. The UK is on the right track.

ZenTiger said...

The UK is on the right track.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Valentine's Package

So Mom said Swisher and I should be expecting a surprise in the mail soon from our Special Furiends Kitty+Coco. Our Valentine's date was fun enough, but we were super excited for a special treat also. We pawsitively love getting stuff in the mail!

Swish went straight to work. Dove head first.
-What's in there Swish?

::sniff sniff::
It's our Valentine's Day cards and...

...a Cow Hoof!

::licks and kisses::
Thank you Kitty. You look beauty-ful.

::slurp:: mmmmm.
I couldn't wait for the wrapper to come off. Bol.

It was Swisher's turn.
He could smell it from the outside!

Swisher says Coco is a looker.
My brother sure was happy.

We added Kitty and Coco's Valentine's Day cards to our collection. We sure are lucky to have such lovely ladies to look at whenever we like. (Don't worry girls, those other Valentine's are to our Mom. You two are our only Valentine's.)

Ladies, we just want to thank you for our pawesome package and to let you know we had a great time on our date. We sure are glad we got to spend time with you. Here's to a hopeful future....

Lot's of Licks,
Oakley and Swisher

  1. Ahh, what great gifts and a picture too!Hope its pawtographed or sealed with a kiss
    Benny & Lily

  2. So that you and the Girls made a love connection!!! Such cute couples!!!

  3. How very sweet. Love this love connection!

  4. Wouldn't it be wild if you had a double wedding?? WoOT!

  5. Hi Boys! So glad you got your presents. We gots a few more coming your way, but mom says we have to wait until next Sat. to pick them up. We handmade the cards especially fur you. Have fun chewing your hooves.

    Kitty and Coco

    Pee.S. I gots the butterflies seeing our names in the sand..You are the bestest date ever.
    (We are doing our present posty tomorrow).


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Debt Reduction?

My arse!

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I think we ought to put my cat in charge. She'd definitely do a better job.

About shooting the prime mentalist...we're definitely going to have to hire someone. I would offer my services, but I'm so boss-eyed these days, that I wouldn't be up to the job. I mean, I couldn't hit a moving target. Someone would have to hold him down or get him to stand still.


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The General Assembly of the 49th Convention of the Antiochian Archdiocese began today at the JW Desert Springs Marriott Resort and Spa in Palm Desert, California with Archdiocesan security guards, posing as hotel security, checking the attendees, looking for “Mark Stookey”. The real problem, though, was not a phantom “Mark Stookey” but a 13-page Report entitled: “On the Necessity for an Ongoing Independent External Financial Audit of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America” that was being distributed by delegates to other delegates.

The unsigned report cites actual examples of “deficiencies, omissions, and inconsistencies” in the Archdiocese’s current financial reporting, as well as general problems such as “unaudited financial statements”; and “long-neglected legal requirements”. It advocates the inclusion of a complete set of financial statements and disclosures in the Archdiocese’s annual financial report, an annual independent external audit of the Archdiocesan financial statements, the establishment of a baseline for this annual audit through an audit of the three previous years ( 2006-2008) by one of the “Big Four” international accounting firms and the establishment of a truly independent Audit Committee by the Board of Trustees.

Hardly the things revolutions are made of - but Archdiocesan officials were quick to denounce the report as “not an official Archdiocesan document”, and physically manhandled at least one delegate who was attempting to pass them out. Archdiocesan security then confiscated as many of the documents as they could lay their hands on. This, of course, only made more attendees want their own copies to read for themselves...

An "Executive Summary "of the Report follows or you can the full document here.

Executive Summary

In a recent interview in The Word magazine, Metropolitan Philip commented on the financial scandal that has rocked the Orthodox Church in America (“OCA”) in recent years and praised the OCA for the steps it has taken to increase its financial transparency.

As faithful throughout the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (the “Archdiocese”) came to grips with the recent ecclesial crisis in our Archdiocese, they began to notice that the Archdiocesan financial statements are neither audited nor complete and to hear (and perhaps even believe) rumors of financial improprieties. As a result, a great many members of the Archdiocese are now beginning to echo our Metropolitan’s sentiments in calling for independent financial audits and enhanced financial accountability in the Archdiocese, so that shadows of rumors might be permanently chased away.

The fraudulent financial activity within the OCA went undetected for years and became deeply entrenched for many reasons, including:

• Strong and misplaced trust by the faithful in the honest handling of Church funds and assets by the hierarchy and governing council;

• Virtually nonexistent financial transparency; and

• The lack of regular, independent, external audits.

The OCA took a number of actions, all praised by our own Metropolitan, to cure its ills, including
(i) concerted efforts by the laity to “trust but verify” the statements of those in positions of authority,
(ii) the provision of more detailed, current, and frequent financial reports, and
(iii) engagement in regular, independent, external audits.

Engagement in regular, independent, external audits, now common in religious, as well as secular organizations, represents the most critical change in the OCA for a number of reasons. First, without such audits, true financial transparency is very difficult to achieve, as an auditor’s expertise and independence holds an organization to the highest standards and helps identify and correct, weaknesses in the financial reports and processes. Second, such audits create financial data in which the laity has confidence.

To be effective, an audit must be both (i) independent and (ii) external. An independent audit is conducted by a disinterested third party, not someone who belongs to the audited organization or who has a relationship with members of that organization. An external audit is conducted by an accounting firm, rather than by an auditor employed by the organization. Audits that are not independent and external will not contribute to peace, and it is with this in mind that this report sets forth the background rationale for an INDEPENDENT, EXTERNAL AUDIT of Archdiocesan financial activity:

Part I presents an overview of the many questions that are now being asked about financial matters within the Archdiocese, including questions regarding the incomplete financial reports, absence of independent audits, and failures by the Archdiocese to meet reporting requirements under New York Corporation law.

Part II analyzes a sample of the obvious deficiencies, omissions, and inconsistencies in the Archdiocese’s current financial reports, including

(i) the absence of a balance sheet,
(ii) the lack of standard reporting,
(iii) missing financial statements for designated and restricted funds, as well as subsidiary corporations of the Archdiocese (such as Conciliar Media Ministries, Inc.),
(iv) insufficient reporting on the performance and use of assets,
(v) shortfalls in contributions to the Order of St. Ignatius,
(vi) missing income from Archdiocesan sacramental fees and on honoraria paid to and gifts made by the Metropolitan, (vii) proper use of designated special collections, and
(viii) internal inconsistencies in financial reporting for the Antiochian Village, the Children’s Relief Fund, Food for Hungry People, and the Heritage and Learning Center.

Part III addresses the need for the Archdiocese to dispel a number of shameful rumors bandied about on the Internet.

Part IV concludes that, because of the foregoing, the following actions should be taken:

• Inclusion of a complete set of financial statements and disclosures in the Archdiocese’s annual financial report;

• Annual independent external audits of the Archdiocesan financial statements, with the first three years’ audits conducted by one of the “Big Four” international accounting firm.”

Update (11:45 AM PDST) The Assembly has just passed in a voice vote the following resolution:

“Resolved, that no person who has been an officer or director of a company which has been convicted of or a settled criminal charge or who has personally been convicted of or settled criminal charges may be a member of the Board of Trustees or the Local Synod.”

You can follow the Convention on multiple live blogs, from OCANEWS.org here or from the Antiochian.org here .

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Amanda Bynes super skinny at the ‘Princess Diaries‘ premiere back in July 2001! She looks completely different now. I wonder how Selena and Miley will fare in the next 7 years..

  • camm

    i loove her!!

  • kaila

    OMG she is SO skinny!

    yea i wonder what miley n selena n everyone will look like years from now.

  • bojo

    In 7 years miley and selena will be posing nude in Playboy….. and i will buy fifteen copies

  • Anonymous

    this is retarded lol
    but funnyyy.. :0

  • Anonymous

    she looks a little bit younger here, and now a few years later she still is pretty!

    I remember when she looked like this – like in ‘The Amanda Show’ (anyone else remember that show? it was soso funny & it had drake bell in it)

    I think she was anorexic,
    thats not natural matabalism.. its just extreme

  • laURENNN

    selena and miley?? what about demi?
    yea she looks waaaayy too thin

  • Anonymous

  • Anonymous

    Too skinny not kewl!

  • Anonymous

    ohh gross she looks anorexic!

  • raisa

    holy shit is that bleacker’s mom from juno creeepin in the back?

  • Anonymous

    OMiG. She is so freakin skinny. gain weight girl. U reali need it. Selena is a skank n Miley is a slut. Future porno.

  • Anonymous

    the last picture i saw of her was at some hairspray premier.
    wow. she’s gotten well, skinny. hah.

  • Anonymous

    i love amandaa

  • Anonymous

    shut up.
    none of them are skanks.
    none of them are sluts either.

  • Anonymous

    well, demi has hips and everything, but shes flatchested.
    soo…who knows.
    and yeah selena loks like shes stay like that.
    mileys curves are coming out so she wont change THAT much.
    i bet theyll all still be pretty though (:
    well lets hope so.

  • Jane

    she looks pretty here, but i like her better now. the curvy look totally works on her. not on miley though, she just looks chubby. and selena is naturally skinny

  • kristan

    i agreee.
    recently miley has definitely gotten curvier, but selena has just stayed her usual stick self :]

    but anyway, amanda looks amazing now, im so glad she changed her appearance. it was defdefdefff for the better!

  • it’s me.

    haha, cute ^^

  • it’s me.

    she looks pretty here, but i like her better now. the curvy look totally works on her. not on miley though, she just looks chubby. and selena is naturally skinny
    are you saying that miley is fat?
    gosh, are you anorexic or something?
    no way miley cyrus is fat!
    I’m happy she gained weight, she looks even better now ^^

  • verO.

    you mention selena and miley.

    think about demi in a few years!~
    she’s already got a bit of curves now..

    no homo or anything XD
    but wow.
    selena looks like she’ll stay like that.maybe get a little more hips.
    miley looks like she’ll get a bit more boobs.
    but demi already hass hips and legs and butt.

    hahahah these disney queens.

  • Anonymous

    she still looks good

  • Anonymous

    they will both have highlights.

  • lisa

  • pooop

  • Anonymous

    wow she was really skinny

  • Anonymous

    i think she looks great now. so much better with actual weight to her. gives her a curve or two. she looks good there, but i like her body type now.

  • Awesome 101

    she doesn’t look healthy

  • Anonymous

    omg wow
    “she still looks good”
    i was actually first haha
    as annoying as it may be i feel like a accomplished something when i was first haha

  • Anonymous

    SHES A STICK! haha

  • aspen riley

    mileys curves are cuming out im not sure about selena yet ..amanda body weight did change shes looks great now

  • Kristen

    same here

  • Anonymous

    She looks terrible!
    Much preferred her look in ‘She’s the man’!! She looked much better!
    Her arms look like they’d snap if you touched them! LOL

  • Emma

    awwww, CHILL! Amanda is just curve now, she’s amazing.
    Selena is going to turn out fab-oh
    not sure about miley though,,,

  • camm

    she was super skinny back then, i mean she’s still pretty thin now but with curves in the right places. she’s soo gorgeous. she’s like my role model. i think miley will get curves and selena just looks like she’ll stay that way.


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The easiest gift ever

A few years back, I had an awful time finding scarves for my girls. I was only able to find the neck-warming goodness available in sets with gloves and/or hats. We already had the head and hand coverings covered, so that was unnecessary. Plus, I just didn't like the scarves I saw in stores. I don't knit or crochet, so that was out.

I do, however, own a pair of scissors and a baby blanket. We had this gorgeous blanket that we got as a shower gift. It's a fleece type flowered small blanket. It's pink with flowers and very very soft. My kids had long since outgrown it, but we still had it hanging around. So I held my breath and cut it into long strips. Since it was baby-sized, it was perfect for my then toddlers. They cost us nothing. We recycled. And in my oh so humble opinion, those scarves were far cuter than anything I could find in the stores.

While at Target today, I came across these animal blankets in the $2.50 area of the Dollar Section. It's a nice big square of fabric with fringed edges. It's some sort of faux fleece. I found it in red stripe (think candy cane), pink with black paw prints and blue with snow flakes. I went with the blue and cut 4 strips--3 scarves for the kids and one extra for when someone loses his/hers (yes, when, not if). I still have half left to use to make softies.

I got to thinking that we could easily make some scarves as party favors for a winter party. I don't know that we will, but hey, we could and it would be CHEAP. True, they're too small for adults or bigger kids, but they're still super cute for the younger crowd (they'd probably be good until 9 or 10 depending on how big the child is). You don't have to be able to sew. You don't have to know what on earth you're doing with knitting needles. The only skill one must posses is the ability to use scissors. So, basically, as long as you graduated from the first grade, you're good to go.

From baby blanket to super-cute toddler-sized scarf:

Here's the current view of the coat hooks inside the closet door. That's where our brand new scarves have taken to hanging out:

I passed the old scarves on to the kids to use for dress-up. They pretended the scarves were bandages. Girl1 accidentally called them "Cabbages" at one point which amused me to no end. She has decided she much prefers that word and will now call all bandages, "Cabbages." Yes, she did make that proclamation. Although, I think the old scarves/bandages/cabbages will probably get thrown into the next load of wash and then miraculously turn up again reincarnated as softies for Chanukah.

Kamrin said...

Yeah for you you crafty thang you!

Anonymous said...

So cute! I may be stealing this idea! I crochet, but it's taking me forever to finish projects these days.


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Friday, January 30, 2009

All You Need Is Love (and a new stroller)

This will be baby #4 for us. So one would assume we have everything we need. For the most part, we do. I'm a big advocate of the concept, "All you need are boobs and a bed." Got those covered. Now, however, we need recommendations for a stroller and a bouncy seat.

When I had the twins, we researched double strollers like crazy and settled on a Graco DuoGlider. It was reasonably priced, held two car seats, worked well and survived through their toddlerhood. Although, I will never stop cursing the fact that the models in the early 2000's had no cup holders for the parents. If I have to deal with twins, then I sure as hell need a drink of somesort. There was no storage at all on the top for parents. Today, you'll find holders for Ipods, sunglasses, and drinks galore. Not so in my time. (in my best creaky bubbe voice, "Back in my day, we had to walk to school uphill both ways 10 miles in the snow while pushing a double stroller with one hand and clutching deseperately to our drinks with the other hand.")

We bought a single Graco travel system for TheBoy ( just found out that stroller has been recalled and I had no idea). Oh holy day! It had TWO cupholders for me AND a box inbetween the holders with a lid that latched and everything. Of course, the latch broke relatively quickly, but damn it, I had cupholders. All was right with the world. Once TheBoy learned to walk (at 18 months after freaking everyone else out thereby making them insist there must be something wrong with him, when I knew full-well there wasn't), the stroller was folded up and "temporarily" left alongside the shed. My son is 3 now. The stroller rests in the exact same place and has held that location through two ice storms. Yeah, that's not gonna work for the new kid.

So now we need a new stroller, or at least new to us. I looked at some of the ones with the option for a bigger kid to sit/stand, but they just seem cumbersome. I would prefer something light and easy to open/close, but I need more than an umbrella stroller. We bought a used Maclaren from a friend last time, but I just wasn't impressed and we sold it. I'm not a slave to fancy names. I also refuse to pay a fortune for a stroller, particularly since this is our last baby.

Here's what I want from a stroller:
  • light weight
  • easy open/close
  • small enough when folded (doesn't have to fit in my pocket, but must not be so big it has to be strapped down to the top of the van).
  • easy enough to manuver
  • cup holders
  • good size storage basket underneath that you can access even with the seat down (that was a problem with the Duo Glider)
  • extra storage is a huge plus (side of the basket, behind the seat, etc)
  • If it fits a Graco snugride infant carseat, even better, but not a requirement
  • Visor cover for baby
  • seat that reclines completely

We haven't been big fans of jogging strollers. We've tried a few, but they seem so cumbersome and they can be a pest to manuver.

We'd love suggestions for a new stroller. And hey, if you run a review blog, feel free to talk to any companies you may work with and suggest they send us one to review. :-)

We're also in the market for a bouncy seat. Ours is broken. The vibrate feature stopped working when TheBoy was tiny. The seat doesn't work nearly as well when it doesn't shake the kid. When we bought ours, we had two tiny colicky twins. We sat a crying Girl2 in each of the bouncy seats on display at Babies R Us. She continued crying in every one until we got to the one we eventually bought. To make sure it wasn't a fluke, we ran her through them all again and yet again, she screamed in them all until she got to that same one. We threw it in the cart and thanked G-d. It was then that we heard a father-to-be turn to his very pregnant wife and say, "Now THAT'S the one we're getting." Our twins still hated sleep, but at least we got some relief with that seat.

So I'd love to have that option for this baby, but which one? There are far more advanced features now. Do we really need them? Are they any good? Is there anywhere where we can find a simple bouncy seat that just bounces and vibrates without all the bells and whistles?

Honestly, I'd prefer to borrow one, but many of my friends have either already given theirs away, have pre-teens so their bouncy seats are long out of comission, or are firm believers in baby wearing and therefore never had swings, bouncy seats, or bumper jumpers (I believe in baby wearing, but my first kids came as a matched set which created a need for something in addition to slings).

Once again, if any of you out there in Review Land would like to offer us a stroller and/or bouncy, please feel free. I've been entering all the contests I can to try to win them, but so far, no luck. If you're having a contest for either of these, feel free to post a link in my comments.

To all you parents, I ask, what stroller/bouncy would you recomend? Are there any you think we shoud avoid? What has your experience been?

Stesha said...

I don't think I will be much help with the stoller, because the twins are getting the bumbleride.

As for as the bouncy, I will check around for you because I am also looking for one.

Hugs and Mocha,

Phyllis Sommer said...

i am of no help because i just tend to beg, borrow and reuse other people's stuff. then we complain and struggle with it but never really end up buying "the right" stuff.... it is such a dilemma.

sometimes, tho, when i did plunk down the big bucks for things, i was really really happy with the product and therefore it was worth the money. so maybe it doesn't matter about it being the last baby? some of this stuff (like the stokke seats, for example) really do hold their resale value.

okay, i think i'm no help. LOL! good luck!

Nancy said...

When my youngest was born, his older brother was just 2 1/2. So we bought the I think it's called Sit and Stand. It worked out well for us and it had a cup holder! :)

I think we got our at Target.

TheFeministBreeder said...

I have the DuoGlide, and you CAN access it with the rear seat reclined... most moms just don't realize it. There's a little red release handled that drops the back of the basket down so you can stuff things into it, even if your tike is sleeping. I do it all the time.

It's not lightweight, but I've never seen a double stroller that is. I do love it though. I can steer it one-handed, and it really does "glide." I'd buy it again.

Reiza said...

What year is your Duoglider from? Ours was from 2001 and didn't have a latch for the basket. I know they made improvements after that (including CUP HOLDERS).

I'm definitely not doing a double stroller this time around. I do so adore small, easy to maneuver, light single strollers. The Duoglider, however, was my favorite of the double strollers.

collyn23 said...

i know the technology has changed all the baby stuff with my first 10 years ago i had the wind up swing haha hated it with my 10 month old so much has changed. The stroller i have i love it is the and I love it ya alitlle bigger than you want but i love that the car seat fits, it has cup holders and big storage and easily folds up and fits in the back of my mini van plus i love that you can take the back seat off for bigger kids to stand and ride and for the bouncer here is the one i love it is cheap like 27 bucks i think and it is cute and vibrates and gets the job done i love it I hope this helps thanks for checking out my blog and for the awesome comments and yes skr is pretty standard shoes size i always buy a size bigger and they are about right one thanks again

TheFeministBreeder said...

We bought our DuoGlide last summer. We got the cheaper version (around $130) as opposed to the nicer $200 version. I dig it.


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Monday, April 9, 2012

Popping In To Say Hello!

Since yesterday was Charlie's 2nd birthday and Ryker noticed it had been a YEAR since our last post... we decided to stop in and say hello!

Maybe... possibly... we will stop being all blog lazy. Although after a year "lazy" seems to be a bit of an understatement...  :)

This was Halloween... Beau the super hero.. and Chicken Charlie!

We also went swimming for the first time ALREADY because the weather has been AWESOME!

He may be two... but he's still pretty tiny!

We go to the park.. every day. Or else I get Aussie bark-screamed at..

Me?? Demanding?? Never!!

And Beau just loves everything.. including the first blog post after a year :)


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This blog/zine is about skateboarding, art, music and bullshit.

With contributors from around the world (Seattle and Trowbridge is around the world right?) and an addiction to skateboarding we will do our best to give you a sense of the life we lead and the things we dig.

We also make some pretty dope posters, hoodies, stickers and t-shirts between skate trips, art shows, rock shows, and living life. Feel free to drop us a line at info at ohmyback dot net.

Contributors List:

Tony Davies: Instigator, nerd, music reviewer, photos, video editor, filming.

Mike Lynch: Photos, shop ranting, product locator, filming, van guy.

Pob Scumtash: Filming, editor, UK correspondent.

Andy Caro: Carpentry, van guy, collector, TIME.

Mikhel Boldyn: Art, music, design.

The Honey Badger: photography, not giving a shit.

Coping Block: Pain banker, not giving a fuck.

Skate – Art – Music – Bullshit