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Mom to an agent of chaos. Super introvert with many solo hobbies. Force of nature when required. Strong believer that everyone deserves happiness as long as hurting others isn't what makes you happy. She/Her

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Freddie Freeman Knocks It Out Of The Park for SickKids
YouTube video by Ryan Reynolds Freddie Freeman Knocks It Out Of The Park for SickKids

Part of the problem of the Jays/Dodgers showdown this year is that while, systematically, the Dodgers are CLEAR villains... on a player-by-player level few of them are remotely hate-able. Freddie Freeman, in particular? The best. This is great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iG5...

05.12.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So good.

05.12.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do those that have been successful also allow ridiculous oversized vehicles? Not to take away from your argument about infrastructure but this is also somewhere the feds could make meaningful change.

05.12.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We did in rural NS.

03.12.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rita MacNeil ~ SHE'S CALLED NOVA SCOTIA
YouTube video by donnyvango Rita MacNeil ~ SHE'S CALLED NOVA SCOTIA

A siren song if ever there was one.
youtu.be/XfWYxGey6sc?...

03.12.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Embroidered image of Pearl, the Halifax Oyster Fest mascost. She's an anthropromorphized oyster with a large shell, layered in multiple shades & textures of grey. Along some of the shell layers she has large light blue eyes that are lined with black and with short black eyelashes. In the center of the shell are voluptuous red lips. She's sitting in a seductive position with arms and legs the colour of oyster meat next to a silver anchor. She's wearing blue fishnet stockings and black stilleto boots. The image is based on the real concept art for the mascot design, first published in The Coast magazine. 
Lyrics from the song, "She's Called Nova Scotia" by Rita MacNeil are embroidered in dark green cursive next to her. They read, "The fortune in your eyes is more like a dream"

Embroidered image of Pearl, the Halifax Oyster Fest mascost. She's an anthropromorphized oyster with a large shell, layered in multiple shades & textures of grey. Along some of the shell layers she has large light blue eyes that are lined with black and with short black eyelashes. In the center of the shell are voluptuous red lips. She's sitting in a seductive position with arms and legs the colour of oyster meat next to a silver anchor. She's wearing blue fishnet stockings and black stilleto boots. The image is based on the real concept art for the mascot design, first published in The Coast magazine. Lyrics from the song, "She's Called Nova Scotia" by Rita MacNeil are embroidered in dark green cursive next to her. They read, "The fortune in your eyes is more like a dream"

She's Called Nova Scotia.

03.12.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Happy to report back that double-sided tape (the kind with a paper backing) on the inside & outside of the hoop worked great with felt.

03.12.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck!

02.12.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Optical Warehouse in Bayers Lake maybe? Not sure if they do progressives, but they're cheap.

02.12.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to know.

28.11.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PS Im happy to hear your arthritis doesn't hinder your work. Given family history/ hints from my aging body, arthritis is probably in my future, too. I ❀️ doing hand embroidery, I'd hate to have to give it up. 🀞

28.11.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Squeezing while holding everything in place & spreading it out before it cools is challenging anyway, with arthritis more so. Purse clips & toothpicks can help but you still gotta be quick. I'm almost done my current piece. I think I'll test out some other types of glue/tape & report back.

28.11.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It can get really messy. I've had to tear fabric off & scrape hot glue blobs lots of times. Actual ribbon is harder to work with than felt or cotton, too. Heavier fabrics seem to be much more forgiving.

28.11.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot glue, although sometimes it gets very messy. Try to do it as thin as possible on the inside of the hoop. If it does go on a little thick wrapping the inner hoop in fabric to give it something to sink into can hide lumps.

28.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe because of the curb in order to actually get on the ramp you'd have to make a U-turn?

26.11.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The concrete curb is a bit obscured by the text but from memory it's clearly scooped out to be a right turn slip lane. So I wouldn't do it, although if that is the intention, there should be a sign.

26.11.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBy focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key network connection gaps” when building new bike lanes, Boston was able to increase both β€œthe number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up.” The number of bikes counted on the network went up by 55%.

24.11.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

55%! Wow!

24.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recall Process - Elections Alberta Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. Β  Who can apply for a pet...

Alberta has a well defined recall process. Just sayin

www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...

24.11.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The peer pressure is very, very strong, and there's a glut of YouTube gamers promoting them. Fortnite is less bad, but my kid is just not wired (or perhaps wired too well) to handle either game responsibly. I feel bad because of the FOMO, but I think it will be better for them in the long run.

24.11.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our kid keeps bugging us to let them play both Roblox & Fortnite, but its a hard no, for so many reasons, including the one you mentioned.

24.11.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right? The only people quoted as having a problem don't live there on the regular but run short-term rentals instead. They're fine with commercial operations in the community as long as its the kind of business they're running.

22.11.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are not, this one was $4k and the cheapest I could find. Gaming licenses complicate things, too, because you're limited to suppliers that are also licensed by the province.

21.11.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It must be exhausting

21.11.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speed cameras! DF just killed them in Ontario just as they became legal in NS, so the countdown is on until TH follows suit. However, with even a modest fee structure, I'm pretty sure the city could make bank just on Massachusetts Ave. alone.

21.11.2025 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the shout-out. I do my best work quietly in the corner.

21.11.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excel, lol. I use spreadsheets for everything. I just hosted a Bingo event where I made the lightboard with conditional formatting and some macros.

21.11.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I second this.

20.11.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because he is confident that his choices will never negatively affect him.

20.11.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

20.11.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 26647    πŸ” 6671    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 221

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