🇨🇦 Peter G Mitchell 😎

Civic Holiday
once called the Bank Holiday
but I've since retired

#haiku #CIBC

Is it the same song?

Everybody's doing it...

PBS theme song
from back in the seventies
zoom zoom zooma zoom

#haiku #haikufeels #zoom #02134 #WGBH images.app.goo.gl/hxvP3ZvM7ogZ...

My old dad used to say that!

He would have been 100, so that expression is ancient... 😎

good and evil hit each other with sticks on the cover of Stephen King's the stand

Stephen King... relax!
But The Stand, director's cut?
I read all the time.

#haiku #haikufeels #stand

leafy green banana croton plant

beads of sap on my banana croton

banana croton
happy in the sun but sap...
horrible sticky

#haiku #houseplants #croton

over at the forge
the old chemical brothers
are mining the past

#haiku #haikufeels #forge

a table topped with a variety of food including a pot of stew Alt: a panoramic buffet with so many different options that you can't choose where to start eating

such a useful word
draw a picture, card or *nug*
...the buffet syndrome

#haiku #haikufeels #draw

After the 200m butterfly, Summer McIntosh said "fuddle-duddle."

#Canada

I feel so dirty...
writing a sappy #haiku
my chi's in a bind

#haikufeels #bind

relationship woes
go home to bind your fresh wounds
come back tomorrow

#haiku #haikufeels #bind

given the options:
sappy or hilarious
...I choose the latter

#haiku #motivation

a close up of a person 's hand pressing a button on a remote control . Alt: a car's clutch pedal and gear shift handle

learning to drive stick
is a useful skill to have.
but don't use my car...

#haiku #haikufeels #stick

a woman screams in spanish with a alvarez productions logo behind her Alt: a woman uses a mandolin to cut citrus and screams in spanish

true dat.

Not only are you inflicting yourself with tiny cuts on your finger tips...

YOU'RE WORKING WITH CITRUS!

Pfft, bastards.

wooden path over a pond, with a great blue heron underneath hunting frogs

We knew it was nearby, so I was walking around with my camera at eye level... like a plonker.

But who needs self esteem when you get a good picture? 😎

You can see its silhouette under the walkway, hunting frogs.

#GreatBlueHeron #WaterlooPark

* I use a mandolin to make mango salad...

Mangos, red pepper, red onion. You can sprinkle on cilantro, a diced green onion and crushed cashews.

The MOST important element is the dressing, in this ratio:
• 3 lime juice
• 2 brown sugar
• 1 fish sauce

a man in a pink shirt and suspenders is using a grater Alt: Graham Kerr, the galloping gourmet, slices carrots with a mandolin

when you make salad
with a mandolin slicer...
watch those little knives

#haiku #haikufeels #make

large bird flies over its reflection in a pond

blue heron... or crane?
no matter, I was ready!
at Waterloo Park

#haiku #WaterlooPark

grandma's ashes #haiku series #FTW

protect your secrets
hide them in the castle keep
until the storm ends

#haiku #haikufeels #keep

a dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire . Alt: a dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee, in a burning cafe

* These are just words... I'm fine. 😎

doubting the need of
my grasp on reality
when it's so broken

#haiku #haikufeels #grasp

one can't patch things up
when the fabric is shredded
but you might reweave

#haiku #haikufeels #patch

"snackety!" 😄 ♥️

a man in a polka dot shirt is asking the question line Alt: a man in a polka dot shirt asks the question line

I place my order
but door dash takes precedence...
there is no justice

#haiku #haikufeels #order

I'm not on the ground, just going by the radar weather app.

It looked like a band of showers was heading in that direction – the big front swung southward.

radar image showing HAL_FIRE_009

#HAL_FIRE_008 seems to have lost to the rain...

#HAL_FIRE_009 is still there!

radar image of an angry rain storm, at my doorstep

AUNTIE EMM!

#ONstorm