Bookmark with text reading: "Books guide the voyager to a safe home port across the sea of joy. Reading Library Books is a happy habit."
Charming little bookmark from an 1880s minute book.
26.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bookmark with text reading: "Books guide the voyager to a safe home port across the sea of joy. Reading Library Books is a happy habit."
Charming little bookmark from an 1880s minute book.
26.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quotation including the line "where two young men were doing something horticultural near the greenhouses."
I love Philip Pullman's writing, but this sentence feels like one he meant to come back and edit later.
22.02.2026 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Still getting good quality carrots from my experimental root-cellar set up.
21.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ontario archivists are dealing with a significant increase in requests for birth/baptism certificates from US citizens with Canadian ancestors.
20.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Irresistible!
14.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pair of American robins in an Eastern juniper tree.
Tradition says that birds choose their mates today. Probably not true, but so far I've seen a pair of cardinals and a pair of robins.
14.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Icicles in sunshine.
Mailboxes buried in snow.
There's a chance this week that the temperature may get as high as 0°C for the first time in a month.
08.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black-and-tan-and-white dog with a light coating of snow.
Lily, working on being a pure white dog.
31.01.2026 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Huge snowpile next to a white SUV.
The snowpile in the library's parking lot is just one storm away from becoming sentient.
22.01.2026 12:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trees along the edge of a snow-covered road.
Can't listen to my audio book when the road demands all my attention.
19.01.2026 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eggplant seedling in potting soil.
Onion seedlings in potting soil.
Sowed eggplants, peppers, and onions last weekend. Just one eggplant (Ping Tung) emerging so far, and one variety of onion (Bianca di Maggio).
16.01.2026 15:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Winter Barn II" jigsaw, almost done.
I like to borrow a jigsaw puzzle from the library for the Christmas break. The shapes in this one were so weird that I ended up doing the edges last.
01.01.2026 21:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pastry voll-au-vents.
There was an accidental purchase of vol-au-vent cases. They were a staple of my mother's Christmas catering, so our New Year's Eve supper is an homage to her.
31.12.2025 20:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dog with a frisbee in its mouth and some snow on the ground.
Still some snow in the shadier spots, but calling it a white Christmas would be dishonest.
24.12.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Solar panels on a clear sunny day with lower halves covered in snow.
Just too cold to melt the snow.
14.12.2025 16:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"...feasts and gatherings, are thin places where past and future generations are tied together."
A line from Patty Krawec's book, Becoming Kin. Most of us have complicated feelings about this time of year and I thought this was an interesting point of view.
"Canadian Word of the Year" on a red banner. Beneath the banner reads "maplewashing" and "the deceptive practice of making things look more Canadian than they actually are"
And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
13.12.2025 00:50 — 👍 496 🔁 194 💬 15 📌 40
Newspaper story about laundromats becoming library outlets in St. Catharines, Ontario.
This story from October 1971 caught my eye. Wonder how long the experiment lasted...
10.12.2025 19:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"The native birds...were driven to extinction in Britain in the 1400s..."
09.12.2025 23:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post-it note with handwritten text: "start here".
Life advice from the file I'm working on.
04.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mostly grey sky over a lake with a hint of dawn colour in the distant sky and snow on a fence rail in the foreground.
December is dressing the part, this year.
03.12.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Stylistics
You are everything
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Thanks for making November bearable, Iva!
Carrots being prepared for root cellar storage in a plastic container.
Temperatures will be sub-zero after this week, so I've pulled up all the carrots. It was a surprisingly good harvest. Trying out root-cellar storage in a cool garage.
29.11.2025 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
David Essex
A Winter's Tale
"The snow has covered all your footsteps"
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The Housemartins
Think for a Minute
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Today’s post, by Matthew Dance, explores naming policy in Edmonton.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, make sure to check out the entire series!
Billy Joel
My Life
Go ahead with your own life...
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Under Your Thumb
Godley and Creme
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"I was standing in the station
being pounded by the rain
so I chose the last compartment
of a stationary train..."
Listening to Cory Doctorow: "pivoting is the technical term for panicking."
21.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pink Floyd
Another Brick in the Wall [Part 2]
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Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone!
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