Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦

We spent a silly amount of time on the bridge in Galt today — watching the ice floes come over the dam. Easily thrilled!

Senator Tim Shelby just ruined my day. #IYKYK

My students keep trying to tell me that Grammarly isn't AI 🫠

I don't actually know. I was just being clever 😆

Huh. I always thought they did it because of the algorithm, not because of concern for triggering.

Kids on the beach

Group of homeschoolers lounge in the sunshine on a floating dock on the lake

Two years ago on this date, it was 20 degrees here in Paris ON and we homeschoolers flocked to the beach at Pinehurst. It was a magical day. Today, we might get 7 degrees, and I am already jazzed. As kiddo says about this time of year: if it's drippy, mama is happy. ☺️

Kids playing on a beach

Group of homeschool kids relaxing on a floating dock at the lake.

Two years ago today, it was 20 degrees in Paris ON and we homeschoolers flocked to the beach at Pinehurst. It was a magical day. Today, it will hit 7 degrees and I am still pretty jazzed. As kiddo says this time of year: if things are drippy, mama is happy.

Oh, he's Tim with a D. That's different 😆

Ontario investigated 900 allegations of OSAP fraud last year, government says Provincial officials declined to say what came of the probes

Dishonest Doug is trying to villainize the 450,000 students on #OSAP to justify his cruel changes to the program. The 900 cases he is referencing is 0.002%. They should be held accountable, but don’t pretend this is widespread fraud. #onpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Notice the headline did not refer to the victim as "underage man" or call it anything other than rape.

Yes!! Thank you for confirming what I know in my bones to be true!

Have you ever met a bad Tim? I haven't. As an educator, I can usually come up with a bad example for every name. But I have never met a bad Tim. The Tims and Timothys (Timothies?) are all out there doing good things in this world.

(You are about to fill my mentions with terrible Tims now 😞)

Man, oh man, do I ever miss those folks.

Costco is the best of my options when it comes to corporate citizens. I will not, however, purchase products from the US. The lemon growers should make better choices at election time.

I'm Canadian. We now do our best to boycott US products. If I weren't already boycotting US and Israel, I definitely would be this week because of this horrific and bogus and illegal war. And since Spain is standing up to US, I went out of my way to buy their peaches.

This image shows gauges with the Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 6.7 Alberta: HIGH - 6.5 British Columbia: MODERATE - 4.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.0 New Brunswick: HIGH - 7.1 Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 4.7 North: HIGH - 6.7 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 6.0 Ontario: HIGH - 7.7 Prince Edward Island: MODERATE - 4.9 Quebec: HIGH - 6.6 Saskatchewan: HIGH - 8.1 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB
HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK
MODERATE: BC, NL, PEI

About 1 in 99 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

a man in a suit and tie is saying there 's literally no one in the world that i don t hate right now . Alt: Toby Ziegler is saying there's literally no one in the world that I don't hate right now.

I know he is a fictional character, but I often think about how many times Toby Ziegler's head would have exploded by now.

Shopping at Costco this evening. Big old NOPE to lemons from the US and grapefruits from Israel. Huge YES to peaches from Spain. It's not hard to make conscious decisions about where your money goes.

So he tells me 😆

You should have seen me in the sensory room at the OT office. You would think it was my appointment 😆 And when I tried bilateral music — it's a massage for my overactive brain. Amazing!!

We are so punk.

Every. Stinking. Time.

They just take advantage and gouge us. Every stinking time.

Also, I'm off to the rez to fill up before things get crazy at the pumps!!

Ha!!! I was waiting to see who would notice and miss him! Yoshi says thank you for caring 🤣 He was under my feet at the time instead of in his usually spot for food pics. I think I caught him by surprise when I snapped a photo of my soup. Usually, he is sitting ready for a pic.

Look how much money we spent.... but also look how much money they gave back to us! Start the car.... we're going for cheese and we're getting the good stuff!!!! 🤣

He's lucky to have a mom who gets him. And gets him cheese. 😜 Hope you have a Costco membership!

That explains everything. When my husband has a food jag, there's no talking him out of it. Right now, it's rainbow trout cooked every morning for breakfast. Sometimes, I literally vomit when I come down in the morning and the house smells so fishy. But it's fish right now. And peanut M&Ms.

Absolutely. I also have a theory that most Covid-cautious people are somewhere on the spectrum of neurodivergence. They are already used to making decisions based on facts and evidence, regardless of what public opinion says, and then going their own way. They aren't really conformists.

Sounds like a good strategy for getting calories into a kid 🤣 I'm a prem mom, so even though he towers over me now, I am still always trying to get calories into kiddo. Just made him some Zoodles, added a tablespoon of butter to the bowl, and then topped it with A LOT of parmesan petals.