Jay Noel of Hearth and Grove

Ridge to push temperatures 10+ degrees above seasonal in B.C. - The Weather Network This month is set to end as one of the driest Julys on record for portions of the South Coast

www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat... Ridge to push temperatures 10+ degrees above seasonal in B.C. - The Weather Network

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Musical Satirist Tom Lehrer Dead At 97 Tom Lehrer, the influential musical satirist and educator, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His friend David Herder confirmed the news. Lehrer was 97.

Tom Lehrer, the influential musical satirist, has died at 97

In Praise of Peaches Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes it's a portal.

Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes, writes Alice Wong ( @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ), it's a portal. On succulence, community, and sweetness of all kinds.

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad. For 99-year-old For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. www.npr.org/2025/06/19/n...

Black petunias and mixed greenery in a flower box off our patio. There’s a maple in the background.

Black petunias and mixed greenery in a flower box off our patio, with a maple in the background.

Dusty miller and black petunias in a flower box with a maple tree behind it.

Picked up a hanging basket from Gardenworks that was crammed full of black petunias, dusty miller and more. Used it to fill our patio flower boxes and I’m completely in love with them now. #GardenSky

Please stop by for a visit,and maybe a purchase

Just a reminder, points month is almost over at Gardenworks. Redeemed mine for a few patio plants and Those Pretzels. Very exciting! #GardenSky #BC #Canada

If more people rejected AI, fewer corporations would be forcing it into everything and killing the Earth in the process.

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

And it can escalate things, at least in my experience, and then the cops don’t show when you need them… I’m sorry, though. What a horrible person.

Spent the afternoon making ritual bath salt mixtures for a variety of purposes. It was nice to discover I had all the herbs and oils I needed on hand. The house is certainly aromatic now, though! #WitchSky

What great news to wake up to. Incredible how fast they moved to get them out.

Trump says Canada could have to ‘just pay tariffs’ as trade talks continue - National | Globalnews.ca Trump said the U.S. has not 'had a lot of luck' with Canada during negotiations on a new trade and security deal, suggesting the two countries may end up with no new agreement.

“We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I think Canada could be one where they’ll just pay tariffs, not really a negotiation.”

globalnews.ca/news/1130403...

A pair of otters swimming in the river at ƛ̓éxətəm (tla-hut-um) Regional Park.

Thanks to Jerry Janzen of the Tri-City Photography Club for this lovely photo of a pair of otters snapped at ƛ̓éxətəm (tla-hut-um) Regional Park (formerly Colony Farm.)

See your photos featured here: tag them with #TheRidge or email them (with your name) to hello@readtheridge.com.

#Photography

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This is one of B.C.'s deadliest bodies of water when it comes to drowning deaths - The Weather Network Okanagan Lake is one of the deadliest bodies of water in B.C. when it comes to drowning deaths, according to a report

“Of the nearly 100 drowning deaths in B.C. last year, 77 per cent were men, according to a report from the B.C. Coroners Service.” www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/life... - @weathernetwork.bsky.social

#BCNews #OkanaganLake #PublicSafety #WaterSafety

Homeless outreach work scaled back; but Macarthy Whyzel still looking to provide care packages to Tri-Cities residents in need – Tri-Cities Dispatch TheUpliftingGroup is currently looking for donations of juice boxes, water, socks, non-perishable snacks, hygiene items and winter jackets. They can be dropped off at a bin at 2986 Forestridge Place,…

After a year and a half, Macarthy Whyzel is winding down some of the outreach work of TheUpliftingGroup, a group he started to support unhoused people in the Tri-Cities.

Read about Whyzel's work with TheUpliftingGroup in the Dispatch: buff.ly/CBY9F9t

#Coquitlam #TriCitiesDispatch

A butterfly on a red and yellow flower in front of leaves and a fence.

Thanks to Paula Weber for this beautiful burst of summer colour, as published in today's issue of the Dispatch.

See your photos here, too: simply email it with your name to hello@tricitiesdispatch.com or tag a post with #TriCitiesDispatch.

#Photography

Yellow graphic with daisies and the cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Text says: "Lessons in Magic and Disaster is a hymn to queer love, joy, and persistence. ... A book for our times-and for all the times before this." --Nicola Griffith, author of Spear Readers in Canada! PREORDER THROUGH CROSS & CROWS BOOKS BY 26 JULY to get your autographed bookplate! See bookstore website for more details. CR SS CPWS BOOKS www.crossandcrows.com

Amazing news! The wonderful folks at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social have extended the deadline to pre-order Lessons in Magic and Disaster and get a personalized/signed bookplate.

Send them your order at www.crossandcrows.com/preorder-sig... by Saturday evening to get in on this action!

And that's why I love her

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_

I’m fairly new here, and I’ve noticed a few comments here and there. Tried joining the Discord as I thought it was an extension of community, but it’s not for me (just too much going on, no judgement). Whatever is happening, I hope when Mercury goes direct that it brings equilibrium.

Oh, definitely!

Eating Daiya cheesecake and discussing serious things around the kitchen table like a freaking Golden Girl.

There are a few very exciting milestones in bringing an anthology to life: when the submissions start rolling in, when you get to to tell the contributors their work has been accepted, etc. But the one that makes it feel really really real? Cover reveal day 💙 @caitlinpress.bsky.social

Absolutely!

No, sadly it was Bram Stoker’s Dracula (came out when I was 15) and Sadie Frost and the brides. I didn’t see the Bella Lugosi one until a few years later. Now I want to rewatch it!

Those are the best movies! For me, that was Dracula, around the same age.