My dad's birthday

De begraafplaats van de clan Macnab te Killin

Today would have been my father's 89th birthday. In 1971, his maternal aunt Sandy (Alexandra) Macnab took me to Killin, Scotland, and showed me the Macnab burial ground, where by ancestral right my father can be buried. His ashes currently repose in my brother's apartment. Maybe someday he and I and whomsoever else will revisit Killin and bury summat of me da therein.

Thank you Jacob Baartse http://www.flickr.com/photos/baartse/for permission to use the image.

Channeling David Fife

The Red Fife at 18 days. Jan Zadoks be my helpmeet and guide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadoks_scale

And OMAFRA, even if they get Zadoks' name wrong. Mason jars at night against the slugs and unseasonal cold. It snowed here yesterday. This a.m. minus 7 C with the windchill. They were sagging against the bitter wind so the jars will stay on today. Supposed to warm up to a whole 11 degrees by Saturday. Fingers crossed.

Stone Boat

Stone Boat
Originally uploaded by photofarmer

We could have used one of these last Saturday. The funny thing is, I was chatting with our neighbour Bernie as dusk fell Sunday. 'Twas then I noticed the humungous boulder in his front yard. His landscaper brought it in on a flatbead from Muskoka and craned it on to his yard. My how I laughed. Not out loud. Not I, descendant of stone farmers. Not I.

Channeling David Fife

I have three, thriving Red Fife seedlings. I once had 120 lbs of Red Fife flour from Upper Canada Village near Kingston Ontario. It nourished us. Soon I will have more, thanks to friends at our local and organic market.

There is a farm in Vonda, Saskatchewan called Loiselle Organic Family Farm, Canada's Outstanding Organic Farmers of 2007. This is Marc Loiselle in his field of Red Fife.




My mother was raised on a farm in Allan Saskatchewan.

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As you can see, the wheat in my family has not fallen very far from the stalk.

What would Ike do?

Waiting for the morning bell on the TSX/NYSE and wondering, in these parlous times...how would Ike have handled this crisis?

Flickring assumptions

Namaste makasinkwe!

Now you know how to greet people in Hindi!

Same old same old, flickr. To you I say, टॉयलेट कहाँ
The day you add Chinook jargon to your greetings will be a day of general rejoicing around this blog.

Daylight

This is the Daylight Donuts sign in Skiatook, OK. Thanks Wade From Oklahoma http://flickr.com/photos/79704578@N00/for sharing it on flickr with a creative commons licence.






Y'all have yourselves a light day now, y'hear? And y'all come back now and tell momma all about it.

When Morpheus eludes



Too fucking much, eh? A dollar a letter. I've spent $6.00 and had nothing to show for it but a tummy ache. Wiktionary WOTD 2 November 2007. I tried other faves but they weren't in these mad Irishmen's lexical funland. If your fave is in the dictionary you can email them and ask for it. As if moi...not. As of 5:30 a.m. EDT oxymoronic was still available. But, as I'd just lost my PayPal virginity it seemed unseemly to be greedy.


Is this a good thing?

Hi Ann.landrey, on behalf of the Welcoming Committee, Welcome to the English Wikiquote!

Yeah it's a good thing. There's a big Wikipedia article on my 3rd cousin twice removed Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942. Presided over the 7th Lambeth Conference. There's one of those telling red lines about his father, John Marshall Lang. Nothing. Just happen to have a comprehensive family genealogy document on him. Now I can put it all up.

Swedenborg in the Summer Sucks

But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.