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Category Archives: Lanark County

Canada Election (2011) Reprise

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Previously I posted a copy of an email that I sent to local candidates running in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox-and-Addington and the party leaders in hopes determining how and if I should vote. Based upon the responses or, more accurately, the lack thereof, it seems as though no one wanted me to vote for them. I assuming it [...]

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Canadian Election (2011)

Saturday, April 23, 2011

From time to time, like most citizens, I correspond with my elected representatives; for instance, to encourage them to vote one way or another (e.g., against back-to-work legislation in the case of the York University TA strike). This is largely ineffectual: I live in an extremely conservative riding (Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington), both provincially [...]

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He pays taxes

Saturday, September 6, 2008

I wish I had something interesting and insightful to say, but I don’t. I was at Canadian Tire today getting an oil change and having my headlight bulbs replaced and, while sitting in the waiting room reading Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social (I’m not particularly impressed thus far, by the way), an old man – [...]

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Dog Walk

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Some apparently wild asparagus found while walking the dogs along the Tay River in Perth. Pictures taken with the phone, so they aren’t the best! At first I thought to myself, “Wow, that’s a giant blade of grass.” Turns out it wasn’t. In all we found five separate plants.

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Winter Preparations

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The first batch of wood from earlier in the summer, primarily from a maple cut down for construction near the cottage. Fortunately I had a mechanical wood chopper for that one – until I smashed a finger on my right hand between a large part of the tree trunk and the machine itself. That’s Mickey [...]

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Three Short Notes

Saturday, May 6, 2006

(1) After writing extensively about Igge’s mystery illness (likely hemobartenollosis), Mickey and Minnie (the dogs) have requested that I write about their nausea of more or less unknown origins. Last week, Minnie managed to throw up her breakfast and dinner, right down to the yellow stomach bile. A few days later, Mickey repeated the problem, [...]

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Coyote

Monday, February 13, 2006

1919 was the year of the first confirmed sighting of a coyote in Ontario. Since then there has been speculation that many of the coyotes in eastern and southeastern Ontario are not ‘pure’ coyotes, but rather coyote-wolf hybrids (especially hybrids with the red wolf). The movement of the coyote into Ontario is a result of [...]

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Bridge Over the River Tay

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

As I approached the bridge over the River Tay on Drummond Street West, just below the famed Summit House and across from the house with the nicest stone bricks in Perth, I saw a man who was either Neil Young or the illustrious wood s lot standing in the drive way in front of his [...]

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Woodcutter

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

I called a woodcutter today.  I am out of wood.  My source, from the cottage, is tapped out until more trees fall and I get around to cutting them.  I had about half a cord left at the cottage, but it appears someone took it.  That wasn’t very nice of them. I asked the woodcutter, [...]

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Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

This post will serve as a dump for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington election news and links as the silly campaign progresses culminating in a nearly-eternal return to the same on January 23, 2006.  Nonetheless, the question is posed: as someone of the "extreme" or "radical" left (as we are known in the media), what [...]

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