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Seeler said:
If you hear of anyone referred to as a 'mama bear' be careful not to offend her.
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Haha - this is what my dtr calls me!

@ Mendalla - was that the Grand Valley library (tornado reference)? We used to drive through there on the way to our cottage.
 
Carolla said:
Haha - this is what my dtr calls me!

@ Mendalla - was that the Grand Valley library (tornado reference)? We used to drive through there on the way to our cottage.
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Was that tornado in '85? I think that was the one, yes.
 
Mendalla said:
So here's a librarian story for you, except I wasn't actually a librarian yet. In 1985, while doing my BA and contemplating going to library school, I landed a summer job with the Ontario Library Service. I was supposed to be helping a librarian working for the Ministry of whatever it was back then plan a conference but one day, she asked me to help with a special event. A tornado had taken out the library in a small town and the OLS had offered her services to help run children's programs in a nearby church that survived. So I went along and spent a rather nice afternoon helping kids play library bingo or something like that.

Other notes on that summer:

I did get to go to the conference (in the following Autumn) as her assistant and got to meet Canadian author Kevin Major, having written his blurb for the program. I think I got him to sign one or two books for my little bro.

My boss made a big impression on me. She was a bright whirlwind of ideas who later worked with me at Wentworth for a spell. She was a Western grad (I think I met her once while I was there, too) and that played into my decision to go there rather than U of T, the other library school in our province.

That was the summer that the NDP and Liberals teamed up to topple a Tory minority in Queen's Park, making David Peterson the new premier. The swag bags for the conference were blue. There's a brief moment of tension as to whether the new minister would make us switch to red ones, but they didn't in the end.
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I've not heard of Kevin Major (yes, I live under a rock.). I like Newfoundland authors. Can you recommend a particular book?
Your former coworker sounds like she was a decent mentor.
 
ninjafaery said:
Can you recommend a particular book?
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He was still fairly new when I read him. Only three novels under his belt. I recall Thirty Six Exposures, his latest at that time, being pretty good. He was a YA author back then (the conference was on youth services in libraries, including YA literature). Won a G-G for Children's Literature with his very first novel. Not sure about his later stuff. Wiki says his recent work is more for adults.

Kevin Major - Wikipedia

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Mendalla said:
He was still fairly new when I read him. Only three novels under his belt. I recall Thirty Six Exposures, his latest at that time, being pretty good. He was a YA author back then (the conference was on youth services in libraries, including YA literature). Won a G-G for Children's Literature with his very first novel. Not sure about his later stuff. Wiki says his recent work is more for adults.

Kevin Major - Wikipedia

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I like some young adult fiction...Charles De Lint and Terry Pratchett are two.
 
Chemguy picked one of the haskap bushes. Not quite fully ripe (he did pick them, not shook them off) but close enough for me.
My garlic scapes are ready but all my basil is tiny. Debating if I should try to get some (the vendor I would get it from doesn't have an ordering option for curbside at the market) or I may just pick and freeze ...
 
Good morning! Happy Sunday! Let us seize the day with hot beverages! Coffee cart is up and ready.

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ninjafaery said:
Ready for the 3rd...thanks. Lots of Kitchener action @Northwind @Mendalla
kitchener.ctvnews.ca

Wandering turkey bringing together Waterloo neighbours during times of isolation

A wandering turkey in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood of Waterloo has become a local favourite and brought people together during times of isolation.
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We get wild turkeys around here from time to time (woke up one morning to find one hanging out in my yard many years ago) but I actually don't recall ever seeing them in Kitchener. Guess they were there and I just never ran into them.
 
We went for a walk to Horne Lake Caves park today. It was lovely. Caves could only be entered with a guide. That's okay. I'm not sure I want to enter one at this point. The trail was good enough. IMG_20200705_174300_566.jpg

Looking in to the entrance of a cave:

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All that water! Maybe we could spare some of it for coffee and tea. (No more noble purpose for water ever existed...) The coffee cart is up and running. Enjoy.

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I have visited a couple caves, including one with a colony of bats. Cool stuff but spelunking will never be my thing, I don't think.
 
Seeler pours herself a cup of coffee with a nod of thanks to Red Baron. She sits back to we enjoyed Northwind beautiful' photography and virtually goes on a hike.

Question: are any parts of this trial assessable to people needing walkers or wheelchairs? A few years ago when we visited this eastern Nova Scotia, I was able to do some fairly rough trails. The next year, when we were hosted by Mrs. anteater, my heights were limited to along the dikes or places where there were handrails and steps in the rough parts. Now, though I still do not need assistance on city sidewalks or well-maintained walking trails, I know I shouldn't go far on a rugged. Hike.
 
Mendalla said:
I have visited a couple caves, including one with a colony of bats. Cool stuff but spelunking will never be my thing, I don't think.
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I've never felt claustrophobic...... except when I visited a cave years ago. I believe it was the Tobermory area. It was a cave that was open and airy. We were only in the entrance. I felt like the rocks would come down on me.

I'm not in a hurry to visit these caves. Plus, the tours are pricey.
 
The second cup is welcome now. Thanks Redbaron.
I couldn't go into a cave. I'd get stuck. What gives me the willies is the thought of going down into a mine under the ocean, like in Belle Isle Nfld.o_O
 
I once took a tram ride through an abandoned coal mine that had become a tourist trap attraction. Such fun. But tea leaves and coffee beans do not grow underground. So let us surface and gather round the coffee cart.

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