Julia Smith 🇨🇦💪

Is there anything better than wild strawberries? 2 weeks before I leave for Peru. Lots of weighted pack carries and hill climbs on the training schedule.

Very overdue day in the saddle. Had such a good ride. Check out my friend in the tree. I was riding right under that tree when my friend noticed it.

Reunited with an old love last weekend at Skaha. Happy to find that I can still do this after a 12 year hiatus. Travelling to Peru in 5 weeks where we will see if I can do it at 6000m. 🏔️🧗‍♀️🇵🇪

This cute boy is a twin who has been rejected by his mother. I’ve been trying to get her to accept him for a week but have made no progress so I’m giving up. Much faster and easier to just bottle feed him. Definitely not ideal though.

Moved most of the sheep who have already lambed out to pasture today. Still have 4 to lamb in the maternity pen and one who really isn’t winning any mothering awards this Mother’s Day as she has rejected one of her twins so I have to wrestle with her 5 times a day so he can eat.

Quick visit to Victoria this week to celebrate BC Beef Day with industry and government leaders

Test for parasites in cattle herd to avoid over-medication | The Western Producer The old days of treating everything in the fall with an ivermectin type (Macrocyclic lactone) product year after year and always expecting excellent results are perhaps going away.

Test for parasites in cattle herd to avoid over-medication vist.ly/3n3h7cc #cdnag #westcdnag

Great advice for all livestock! 👍

Lambs lambs lambs! Is there anything cuter? Hoping for a big lamb storm today as I have to go out of town for a few days tomorrow. Heading to Vancouver & Victoria. You can order pork and lamb for delivery on blueskyranch.ca

Still lots of snow up on the Coquihalla mountains.

Lambing season is underway at Blue Sky Ranch!

I’m training for a month of climbing 6000m peaks in Peru in July. I’m in Lillooet for work this week where it’s pretty easy to crank out a 3 hour training hike with some good elevation gain. Beautiful day for it today.

Went straight from daffodils on Vancouver Island to -20 in Fort Saint John. My month long travel marathon wraps up tomorrow. Looking forward to some time in my own bed. Not so excited about catching up on office work.

Nice day at the beach on Quadra with my son today

Frog symphony on Vancouver Island tonight 😍🐸

At the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival for some mountain dreaming tonight….

B.C. ranchers say fracking-induced earthquakes hurt cattle | The Narwhal 15 earthquakes in five days, linked to fracking, are having serious implications for ranchers

Recent earthquakes, caused by fracking, are having serious impacts on B.C. ranchers, including stress on cattle, premature births and the loss of water supplies #bcpoli VIA @sarahkcox.bsky.social kcox.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Charlie Angus Charlie Angus out the Gangsters Putin/Trump for Selling out Ukraine

"A war criminal and a convicted felon are deciding the future of Ukraine. If we are silent in allowing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to carve up Ukraine it is a repeat of Munich 1938. We cannot allow this to happen.”
- Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels
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NO RETURN TO NORMAL A Message To My Fellow Parliamentarians

I’m really enjoying @charlieangus104.bsky.social on Substack. This was a great read this morning. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Charlie Angus / The Resistance | Substack Author, musician, political veteran. Author of 9 published books. Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, House of Anansi Press. Grievous Angels Last Call for Cinderella, spring 2024.

Charlie Angus - The Resistance is my new substack forum where I will take a deeper dive into the issues of resistance in this new dark age.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Happy flag day! This was a refreshing post to see in my morning doom scroll. Thanks for your leadership Alistair! 🇨🇦💪

Cartwheels are a lot harder with snowshoes on. Beautiful day getting up Zupjok peak yesterday.

Awesome day in the Coquihalla with Eileen today. Made it up Zupjok peak on a very cold but beautiful day. 😊🗻

What are your favourite productivity books, apps, tools, sage words of advice? Four Thousand Weeks, Essentialism and Slow Productivity have been helpful but I’m still struggling to implement good systems.

Likewise friend!

Webinar: The science and ethics of wolf conservation and management in BC, Canada | Raincoast Join the Wolf Conservation Center and Chelsea Greer on February 13 for a discussion about the current landscape of wolf conservation and management in BC.

Webinar: Join the Wolf Conservation Center and Chelsea Greer, our wolf program director, on February 13, 2025 at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for a discussion about the current landscape of wolf #conservation and management in BC. #wolves

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Very heartening to read so many supportive comments from Americans here on Blue Sky. It hurt my heart to hear that the 🇺🇸 anthem had been boo’d at recent sporting events. Some of my happiest memories took place in the States. I’m sorry our parents are fighting. Can we still be friends? 😔

They should have listened to us about free trade Almost 40 years ago, the Left was warning about the consequences of tying Canada economically to the US with free trade.

This piece by @judreb.bsky.social is so tragically true.

Almost 40 years ago, the Left was warning about the consequences of tying Canada economically to the US. The election of Donald Trump is showing just how accurate those warnings were.
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One of my winter guilty pleasures is buying California salad greens but that stops today. Lost all my sprouting stuff in the fire so I’m replacing it now. Recommend that you do the same if you struggle to get through winter without fresh greens. sprouting.com