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4" strips of fabrics in fall forest colours piled haphazardly on a cutting board.

The strips have been sewn into tubes and are inside out. The 6 ft long strips are piled up on my ironing board.

The strips are turned right side out and laid across my ironing board. L>R. Golden yellow/brown, light green pattern, white pattern, orange and red pattern, dark green leaf pattern, bright pinky red foliage pattern, bright yellow, orange, sky blue.

One strip of each colour is woven with a 1" gap between. Five strips in each direction.

Progress report.
Where we're going and how we get there from here.

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At least we're never caught by surprise.

A good thing to remember every time you’re thinking about supporting US businesses or tourism, Canada.

Yeah, no need to include Gretzky in any of our hockey coverage, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. He's not ours, he's not great and he's not wanted.

Solitaire. My first access to a desktop computer was at my office. Users were assigned to play Solitaire to familiarize ourselves with using the mouse and navigating the pages and directories.

Large painting on a beige wall above a pale wooden floor. A tangle of people and horses in shades of predominantly orange with shadows in blue and green. Looks like a battle.

The end of the gallery space set up for sound. Two 4 ft tall speakers about 8 ft apart with metallic red horns at the top. Between them are black receivers and disc players. Behind them on a white wall is a large painting 48x48? with swipes of bright cheering colours on a black background. In the foreground is a red Persian carpet.

The artist (Shinae Kim in orange dress) with an admirer, posing for a photo in front of a large painting, predominantly green with figures lounging and standing among the greenery.

Poster for the show with black print around a blue painting. Shinae Kim Star Light, Star Bright Feb 21 - Mar 14, 2026 Opening Sat February 21 2-6pm Christopher Cutts Gallery (21 Morrow Ave) www.shinae.ca

Best way to brighten up a grey winter afternoon? Go to an art show! New work by artist Shinae Kim at Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto.

Have you been being a hothead?

Deep photo of my living room set-up. Front to back - My hand in the process of turning a tube of fabric right-side-out, My laptop on the coffee table with an array of photos of my sewing project, My black Singer sewing machine, my ironing board set up in front of the tv. On it are an iron, a pile of right-side-out tubes and a larger pile of inside-out tubes of fabric. The tv sits on a dark wood cabinet. On the screen are Canadians in the audience wearing white and red Team Canada jerseys.

Close-up of the ironing board L>R white iron with trailing cord, piles of strips of orange, green, yellow, orange again and then a pile of inside-out tubes.

Multi-tasking.
Go Team Canada Go!!

Times Politics post with the same headline that UK is blocking Trump

BREAKING: The UK is blocking Trump from using its airbases to attack Iran.

Trump is irate.

The UK is having a good news day.

A Canadian two-dollar coin lying flat on a dark wooden surface. The coin is bimetallic, with a gold-coloured centre and a silver-coloured outer ring. In the centre is an engraved polar bear walking on ice, with mountains in the background. The outer ring is inscribed with the words “CANADA” at the top and “2 DOLLARS” at the bottom. The coin is centered in the frame, with soft lighting and a slight vignette darkening the edges of the image.

On this day in 1996, the Toonie was introduced by the Government of Canada. While the name Nanuq (polar bear) was suggested to honour the Inuit and Canada's North, Toonie became commonplace. The bear on the Toonie was named Churchill by the Royal Canadian Mint.

I'm so glad I'm a sloppy vegetarian. I'm willing to peel off meat and eat mushrooms which I hate. The friendships are worth it.

Labour minister has given PC donor-led companies 80% of for-profit businesses’ Skills Development Funds Most became donors or increased their donations after the SDF was created

Irony is Doug Ford distributed hundreds of millions of Skills Development dollars to his friends, including his dentist and a company making "adult entertainment".
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

Very foggy grey sky over bare branches of tree-tops. Square building between the trees.

Pea soup for dinner tonight.

I'm a Rooster too. Dark brown is only good for furniture. Marriage - no. Childbirth - Those days are long gone. We need to find an alternate interpretaton.

Thanks. The next part will be slow going but then it'll come together pretty quickly. Probably a few weeks work till it's complete. Not sure how I'm going to muscle through once the Olympics end LOL!

Ironing board set up in front of the tv. The tv is on a dark wood cabinet. On the tv is the Canada vs France Olympic game. The ironing board has a blue floral cover. On top are three piles of 4 1/2" strips of fabric. Red on the far left, orange being worked on in the centre, a pile of yellow and green on the right. The iron is white and has a white cord trailing to an outlet on the left.

Double tasking.

A selection of different coloured fabrics cut into 4" strips, folded into bundles and arranged haphazardly on a cutting board with a plexiglass ruler and a rotary fabric cutter. The fabric colours are sky blue, dark green, light green, orange, orange with yellow and red foliage, pink/red, yellow and white with black line scribbles. ie, fall tree colours

And now for something completely different.

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Good job with the superbowl everyone. I’m very pleased with how upset all the mean people are.

Thanks for sharing the experience. Probably the only way I’ll see it.

I've had so many salad-in-a-bag I'd forgotten this is how real caesar salads are made. It's been a long time.

Sketch in black pen on white paper in a 9x12 spiral bound sketch book. A woman stands holding two babies, a toddler standing clutching her leg. She has a combative stance, holding the children protectively. Her other arm is extended, holds a sword. Two businessmen in suite are impaled on the blade of the sword. She’s standing in a street with office towers behind her. Her mouth is badly drawn, looks like a moustache.

Ok I cleaned it up a bit on the second sketch. Not sure where I’m going with this. Oh and that’s her mouth, not a moustache. I need to fix that next time.

On Q107. I loved Dr Demento.

Well that hardly seems fair.

Sketch black ink on paper, very rough. A woman holds two babies in one arm while a toddler clings to her leg. Her face is monstrous angry. She hold a sword with the bodies of two businessmen impaled on in. Two more bodies on a spear or pole behind her. Office towers line the street to the left. Larger angry vicious face behind her.

Can’t sleep. Those fuckers. All those poor children. Tear it all down. We’re coming for them.

YouTube video by KeaneVEVO Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (Official Music Video)

I woke up with it playing in my head and have been listening to it all day. Hands down the most beautiful song I know.

Hang in there Bruce! You're a hero!

And just like everyone else crossing the border, they can’t bring their guns or other weapons. And they have to show their faces and their passports.

And just like that I'm a Bad Bunny fan. I'll check out his music too.

If you want a preview as to how the Conservatives will govern if ever given the reins of power.
Look at any Conservative run province, especially Alberta and Ontario.