This was the longest car-miles-replacement errand to date: home to Bonton Bakery and return, about 13.3 km in all. And look at that perfect baguette rearing its handsome head above the pannier!

Negative drainage and The Dawn of a New Hope

I started my car-miles-replacement program with a ride to the nearby Home Depot for replacement shopvac bags.

Here is a fuller view of the Bill Reid rose, still a bright spot in a darkening world.

If you didn’t care for the Bill Reid rose (or even if you did), here is the ‘Emily Carr” which also offers a bright spot in a darkening world.

This is the ‘Bill Reid’ rose, and it is a beacon of delight even in times of trouble.

I received and deposited the latest and last of my carbon price rebate cheques today. So ends one of the most sensible of the Trudeau approaches to addressing climate change. Now the decks are cleared for the GoC to bend a knee to Premier Smith and her oiligarch backers. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Hey all you country girls and boys coming back from WWII. Move to Edmonton and we’ll build communities, schools, etc. so you can be The Greatest Generation and raise the Boomers.

Our oldest house — built in 1933 from a kit developed by Muttasrt Lumber. #JanesWalkEdmonton

Jane’s Walk II: North Glenora
#JanesWalkEdmonton

Voted today.

Although the world may be falling apart, the first crocuses have bloomed along the south side of my house.

It’s a month late, but I’ve finally done the tourtiêres.