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Wendell on the newly blocked Shakerag in Ito Kinu
Cat washing himself on newly blocked and damp piece of knitting.
October 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This is the Hungarian plum
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Hungarian plum tree in our garden. Smaller than commercial fruit but great taste.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Pinot gris vine from Pelee Winery. Began in a styrofoam cup. This is the first year it’s been so fruitful.
A cluster of Pinot gris grapes on a vine growing against a south facing brick wall on our deck. Its first year bearing plentiful, full-size fruit. Usually the birds, squirrels and raccoons collect them.
October 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Cat comfort
Partner lying on couch, eyes closed, back pain; Wendell curled up on tummy. Wearing a sweater I made.
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Kains Woods Conservation Area, west London
footpath along river in mixed woods, hemlock, white pine, maple, afternoon light and long shadows. River, shallow here, behind trees.
June 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Blue loved boxes.
Blue, blue-eyed, blue point Siamese cat looking through a hole cut in a cardboard box. One blue eye and part of his face shows. Blue loved boxes, violin cases, plastic bins, sewing machine covers…
June 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Blue in the catnip
Blue point Siamese in backyard catnip patch
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Blue enjoying the sunlight.
Blue, a blue point Siamese, 15 years old, sitting in a sunny spot on the top of a cat condo positioned between two windows. His tail hangs elegantly, slightly lifted at the end (an indication of happiness, I think).
April 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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On a sunny day this sends little rainbows everywhere (because it rotates).
a little rainbow maker that sticks to a window with its suction cup. It’s clear so the gears inside are visible. Sunlight hitting the tiny top panel makes it rotate and the prisms below scatter little blips of rainbow on floor and walls. I’ve had one for years and it never fails to lift my spirits.
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Sweater lover
Wendell, found by children at about two weeks of age, abandoned, was brought to a woman who operates from her home a shelter for about twenty cats. Wendell was called Wednesday by the children for the day he was found, and we modified it because it was so very confusing! He’s so perfectly cat-socialized! He spent a year there, happy, before we adopted him, and then spent three weeks being soothed and reassured while hiding under a bed. Now he’s perched on the body of a Hinterm Stein sweater, Perfect Edge, being knitted in a Miss Babs DK yarn in Cordovan colour. And yes, his left eye was already damaged when he was found. He’s seen eye specialists, who confirmed it was stable, but a dental surgeon believes his eye was affected by calicivirus and perhaps that’s why a feral mother abandoned him, thinking he couldn’t survive. He was bottle fed for weeks.
March 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Ready to bisque
A plate, thrown on a wheel, decorated with deep cobalt blue and carved with lines radiating from a small centre circle to about a centimetre from the edge. Has a natural cream coloured clay rim and the lines cut through to the clay colour. When I glaze it will be a transparent green celadon.
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Blue in the catnip box, a winter entertainment strategy. Blue isn’t sneering: it’s dental extractions and his upper lip catching. It’s sunny today and he’s a happy boy.
Blur, a 15-year-old blue point Siamese who has been with us for six years now. He’s sitting in a large clear plastic bin which has catnip scattered on its floor. It’s a winter toy which along with a series of Dollarama tunnels, will soon go in storage for a few months.
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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picardonhealth.bsky.social
The U.S. is the real source of the #fentanyl crisis, not Canada, by Marcus Gee
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron... via @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis
The U.S. is the real source of the fentanyl crisis, not Canada
As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum points out, the drug trade exists mainly to serve American users
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Asleep on the knitting, one is a finished cardigan and two are at different stages on the way to completion.
Cat asleep on the cardigan I draped over the chair and two partly complete ones, one plum coloured, the other two blue. There’s a cat toy draped over the top, brought by the cat, Wendell, as he pulled down the softest (20% yak). Wendell is a lively three year old, he’s a blue eyed, mostly white cat with beige and gray markings.
March 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Following the bizarre Trudeau/Trump phone call, a scrum:

Reporter: "You're foreign affairs minister called this a psycho-drama. What do you call it?"
Trudeau: "Thursday."

You gotta love the guy, (Trudeau) even if you hated him before. He's holding things together with string.
March 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."

Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I just read in the New York Times that Donald Trump today floated the idea that Wayne Gretzky should be the next Prime Minister of Canada. The man is insane.
February 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Wendell, my three year old, just came racing through the cat door, skunked. There’s a skunk pathway along one side of our house, and sometimes skunk and cat surprise each other. This is Wendell’s fifth time, I think, and we still have a large bottle of Nok Out. Soon is best.
February 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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🍁 CanadaSky Fibre Artists 🧶

www.vancouveryarn.com/canadian-tex...
Canadian Yarn & Fabric
Here is a list of yarns which are made in Canada. Don't pay for international shipping and support the Canadian economy.
www.vancouveryarn.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
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gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
gavinnewsom.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
dvandaele.bsky.social
Togetherness. It’s taken two years of effort for Wendell to thaw Blue. Blue is 15 and Wendell 3. Wendell is innovative and so creative in finding ways to show Blue he wants to be close. He just rolls with rejection and discouragement. So open hearted.
Blue and Wendell, two cats, lying on a brown couch sharing a blue fleece cat blanket. Wendell mirrors Blue’s body position.
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Playtime
Wendell is a gray, beige and cream three year old cat with thick, dense short fur and blue eyes. He lives to play, and here he’s leaping at a toy.
January 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
January 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
dvandaele.bsky.social
Equally important this week but almost unnoticed by most media: from Heather Cox Richards’ Letters from an American, 23 Jan: “Trump today issued pardons for nearly two dozen antiabortion activists convicted of violating…”
January 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM