@andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Reader, hiker & backpacker, attendee of comic cons, recently started playing D&D. Born & raised in Nova Scotia, living in Oregon; History PhD, working in accounting -long stories...
I'm 55 and I've never been to Disneyland, Disneyworld or any other major theme park. My childhood family fun trips were all camping and cross country skiing. It was great and I've never felt I missed out on anything.
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm 55 and I've never been to Disneyland, Disneyworld or any other major theme park. My childhood family fun trips were all camping and cross country skiing. It was great and I've never felt I missed out on anything.
Yet *another* reason to regret moving from Canada to the US all those years ago!
May 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Yet *another* reason to regret moving from Canada to the US all those years ago!
I've always liked how the opening line in Watership Down, "The primroses were over," is mirrored in the closing line. "...where the first primroses were beginning to bloom." The end is a beginning.
I am overdue for re-reading some Wodehouse!
I am overdue for re-reading some Wodehouse!
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I've always liked how the opening line in Watership Down, "The primroses were over," is mirrored in the closing line. "...where the first primroses were beginning to bloom." The end is a beginning.
I am overdue for re-reading some Wodehouse!
I am overdue for re-reading some Wodehouse!
Je suis prêt.
May 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Je suis prêt.
My Best Fiend's Wedding
May 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
My Best Fiend's Wedding
Looking forward to reading the rest!
April 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Looking forward to reading the rest!
Oh wow. I had to look her up, as I'd not heard of her. What an adventure she had! Agree -gorgeous sweater.
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Road trip - summer of ’54 / Road trip : été 1954
On July 31, 1954, freelance photographer Rosemary Gilliat and her girlfriends, Anna Brown, Audrey James and Helen Salkeld, packed up Helen’s Plymouth station wagon and began their 12,391-kilometre roa...
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March 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Oh wow. I had to look her up, as I'd not heard of her. What an adventure she had! Agree -gorgeous sweater.
www.flickr.com/photos/lac-b...
www.flickr.com/photos/lac-b...
The lemur is going to want that!
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The lemur is going to want that!
I loved them!
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I loved them!
I'm on day 527 of French. I took French in school, grades 4-12, and one class in university (in 1991). I was surprised how much I still remembered but I still find it way easier to read than to understand it spoken.
February 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm on day 527 of French. I took French in school, grades 4-12, and one class in university (in 1991). I was surprised how much I still remembered but I still find it way easier to read than to understand it spoken.
My Canadian history class in high school, ~1986, we were learning about the October crisis and "just watch me," and the teacher also told us about "fuddle fuddle" and the pirouette, if I recall.
February 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My Canadian history class in high school, ~1986, we were learning about the October crisis and "just watch me," and the teacher also told us about "fuddle fuddle" and the pirouette, if I recall.
Indeed, though I can get weirdly nostalgic about things I wore in the 1970s. I'm wearing my corduroy bell-bottoms at work today!
February 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Indeed, though I can get weirdly nostalgic about things I wore in the 1970s. I'm wearing my corduroy bell-bottoms at work today!
Yay, I have entered!
February 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yay, I have entered!
So sorry for your loss. She's beautiful.
February 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
So sorry for your loss. She's beautiful.
I did use "night sight," but it didn't pick up any of Betelgeuse's redness. I will have to play around with it the next time I get a good night sky.
January 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I did use "night sight," but it didn't pick up any of Betelgeuse's redness. I will have to play around with it the next time I get a good night sky.
Your's is better than what I got last Saturday with a Google pixel 9.
January 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Your's is better than what I got last Saturday with a Google pixel 9.
Oh... I remember this. Amazing what you forget until you're reminded again. Feeling all the warm fuzzy feels now for my 1970s Canadian childhood!
January 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oh... I remember this. Amazing what you forget until you're reminded again. Feeling all the warm fuzzy feels now for my 1970s Canadian childhood!
Cars with manual windows.
January 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Cars with manual windows.