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Thank you, my dear and it is lovely to hear what you do in New Zealand. The idea that plants can continuously grow without nighttime frost or a snow season is wonderful.

I haven't planted the flowerbaskets yet. I have a few herbs to finish and pots to test seeds that didn't work in the garden. The wonderful news is that four hanging baskets and all three flowerboxes kept alive since last year; two of them are in their second year! So the colour is here.

~~ Humour For Dealing With Stray Cats ~~

1. Stray cats will not be fed.
2. Stray cats will not be fed anything except dry cat food.
3. Stray cats will not be fed anything except canned cat food.
4. Stray cats will not be fed anything except canned cat food, yummy treats and leftover fish scraps.

5. Stray cats will not be encouraged to make this house their permanent residence.
6. Stray cats will not be petted, played with or picked up and cuddled unnecessarily.
7. Stray cats that are petted, played with, picked up and cuddled will absolutely not be given a name.

8. Stray cats with or without a name will not be allowed inside the house at any time.
9. Stray cats will not be allowed inside the house except at certain times.
10. Stray cats will not be allowed inside the house except on days ending in y.

11. Stray cats allowed inside will not be permitted to jump up on or sharpen their claws on the furniture.
12. Stray cats will not be permitted to jump up on, or sharpen claws on the really good furniture.

13. Stray cats will be permitted on all furniture but must sharpen claws on new $114.99 sisal-rope cat-scratching post with three perches.

14. Stray cats will answer the call of nature outdoors in the sand.
15. Stray cats will answer the call of nature in the three-piece, high-impact plastic tray filled with Fresh n Sweet kitty litter.

16. Stray cats will answer the call of nature in the hooded litter pan with a three-panel privacy screen and plenty of head room.

17. Stray cats will sleep outside.
18. Stray cats will sleep in the garage.
19. Stray cats will sleep in the house.
20. Stray cats will sleep in a cardboard box lined with an old blanket.
21. Stray cats will sleep in the special Kitty-Komfort-Bed with non-allergenic lambs wool pillow.

22. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed.
23. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed, except at the foot.
24. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed under the covers.
25. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed under the covers except at the foot.
26. Stray cats will not play on the desk.
27. Stray cats will not play on the desk near the computer.
28. Stray cats are forbidden to walk on the computer keyboard on the desk when the human is asdfjjhhkl;ljfd.;oier puyy kmm4hbdm9lo9jmdskdm,. USING IT.

Up to the mid 2000s, I suppose when high-speed internet was developped with cable, I used to enjoy written jokes and meaningful writings but received them too often. I can't remember the last time I received a funny forward in plain text and miss them. If you have good jokes or witty musings, I would love to peruse them.

Forwards merely seem to direct you to a website and not give you the goods in e-mail. Since we went country in 2010, dial-up internet can't handle videos or load anything heavy with photographs. We certainly bypass the old chain mail type codicil, that calls you a chump if you don't forward it to other people. Clean up the good stuff and share it. My group description refers to a difficult years and I want to laugh a lot from now on!

P.S. An inspiring story went around over a decade ago that I would like to find again, to deter any more shaming ever again, about being a homemaker and writer. A bypasser marvelled at a Mexican's successful fishing and told him he should make money by building a company of boats. The story makes the point that what the Mexican would DREAM of DOING after increased effort and money, is what he was being observed passively enjoying already. ~Sincerely, Carolyn~.

Dr. Helen Creighton
“Folklore Of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia” 1950
“Bluenose Ghosts” 1957
“Bluenose Magic: Popular Beliefs And Superstitions In Nova Scotia” 1968
“A Life In Folklore” 1975

Zillah K. MacDonald
“Mystery Of The Piper’s Ghost” 1954

Hugh MacLennan
“Barometer Rising” 1941
“Each Man’s Son” 1951
“Return Of The Sphinx” 1959
“The Watch That Ends The Night” 1967
“Voices In Time” 1980

Rita MacNeil
“On A Personal Note” 2000

Mary Jane Maffini / Victoria Abbott
“Lament For A Lounge Lizard” 2003
“Too Hot To Handle” 2007
“The Christie Curse” 2013
“The Sayers Swindle” 2013
“The Wolfe Widow” 2014
“The Marsh Madness” 2015

Elizabeth May
“Who We Are” 2014

D’arcy O’Connor
“The Secret Treasure Of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story Of A Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt” 2004

Steve Vernon
“Haunted Harbours” 2006

Here is NOVA SCOTIA literature by the author’s birth, emigrated residency, or topic of focus! Because authors move and write a variety of settings, birth and main emigration provinces usually inform the category. Books about Oak Island, however, belong here for example; no matter where those authors are from.

Many of our friends and peers would benefit from a provincial database and I am happy to make it! These will comprise Saskatchewan material I am aware of, including books I have not read. Additions are welcome from all of you.* I am just getting started. I will edit whenever I have time. *

We are welcoming new Canadian members. As we build these provincial databases - drawn from a decade of reviewing at my blog, members are invited to add authors they like. I like plain text without HTML code links. Simple lists are clean and all the information we need to browse new possibilities.

If the format typed isn't quite right, I need only adjust it. Just feel at leisure to drop authors, titles, and first publishing years off under each provincial folder! :)
Your Manitoba hostess sincerely, this fine summer day, Carolyn.

How many of you are food or plant gardeners and what are you growing this year? It would be fun to see which plants bloom in your parts of the world and ours. We are "hardiness zone 3" in southeastern Manitoba, an hour from Ontario by car.

We pray the rain continues and gets rid of the country's fires. Otherwise, the early warmth got us sowing our plant seeds earlier in May than usual. We reseeded a few rows and I am still planting herbs and overflow garden plants into pots today. Then I tackle our 25 hanging flowerbaskets, with some work but with worthwhile pleasure.

When our family members ascend to the afterlife, our animal family very much equally, those dates are remembered secondarily to their birthdays. Today is the happily remembered birthday of our precious McCartney, most recently gone to the afterlife a year ago. Sometimes our loved-ones send us animal representatives to cheer up on on Earth and let us know they see us!

We have watched monarch butterflies float around us recently and see the tiniest of their caterpillars on milkweed now. Yesterday, we behelf our first turtle of the year and Angel & Petal had great fun sniffing her. They even sat with her awhile. Today, I behelf my first garter snake. Flowers on the cats' resting places are just beginning to bloom for this year. They always do on special dates. Your friend, Carolyn.

We at Gentle Spectrums are welcoming new Canadian members. As we build these provincial databases - drawn from a decade of reviewing at my blog, members are invited to add authors they like. I like them in plain text without HTML code links. Simple lists are clean and all the information we need to browse new possibilities.

If the format typed isn't quite right, I need only adjust it. Just feel at leisure to drop authors, titles, and first publishing years off under each provincial folder! :)
Your Manitoba hostess sincerely, this fine summer day, Carolyn.

We at Gentle Spectrums are welcoming new Canadian members. As we build these provincial databases - drawn from a decade of reviewing at my blog, members are invited to add authors they like. I like them in plain text without HTML code links. Simple lists are clean and all the information we need to browse new possibilities.

If the format typed isn't quite right, I need only adjust it. Just feel at leisure to drop authors, titles, and first publishing years off under each provincial folder! :)
Your Manitoba hostess sincerely, this fine summer day, Carolyn.

Happy birthday to our precious McCartney on this sunny day, June 13, 2023! Our McCartney almost reached 22 years-old last year.

Ron & I sang "Happy Birthday" beside two of his pictures this morning and will sing it one more time at suppertime. We will think of him all day, with a smile. Even though we miss him very much every day.

We love you and honour you, our sweetheart, McCartney! We are sure Mom is cuddling him today, exactly like in his baby photograph twenty-three years ago. Love's resting place, in the centre of McCartney, Spirit, and Marigold, has bloomed English daisies.

With all our love: Carolyn, Ron, Angel, Petal, Conan.

On a happy note, ** I love ** your contributions today, the kind of musings that make me excited about having conversations with everyone. I am glad you found some of New Zealand's ley lines and am interested in those Shirin can visit. Don't "wait until you are in the area". Make a trip and go to that Kura Tawhiti castle and Cape Reingais spiritual place! :)

You make an excellent point that the baby raven with her biological feeding and warmth needs, must be a magical bird. Yes, it is wonderful to think of how powerful and successful these friends and family will be in all their quests of the novels, with their combined abilities! Ronan's last name is Lynch, right? I know his ability is what drew his pet girl, weirdly named "Chainsaw", to him.

Ronan Lynch has a sub-series, starting with "Call Down The Hawk". It is in that shaky Awesome Books shopping cart queue for a good price as well, only $6.00 CDN. We three will want to read those too, won't we! His friends aren't in the synopsis, so I don't know if they are with him or why he adventures with someone else.

Herein, you raise a frustration. Awesome Books and other companies' websites are so cumbersome, it takes the equivalent of one or two work day hours to go through my wish list and build a sale. If I can't get the check-out to work (without asking Lygia to do it on her city internet), or I wait for a book I want to be available for a bulk sale, I spend additional days rechecking books because the cart and wish list views do not update prices. Picture me refreshing each page multiple times to get it to work at all. I spent this week at it!

After building 48 books in a shopping coup, at least on-line, I was elated that Awesome Books was also going to reimburse me 20% off. I was willing to buy that much because they have always had a flat $5.30 CDN mail fee and extra books per sale save you from repeating the mail fee. Books I have wanted for years were available affordably, including one by Donna Eden ("EFT Energy Psychology"). "Dream Thieves" was only $8.00 CDN and "Blue Lily" only $7.00 CDN but someone bought it last night. That is fine, Amazon.ca has it and "Raven King" at $14.0 00 CDN.

Last night, wanting to read and go to bed, wondering why Lygia was taking awhile to finish my sale; she reported an $84.00 charge for shipping! I e-mailed customer service about it and they replied this morning that they have added a pretty large fee PER BOOK on orders from now on! I wrote back that it is not good business sense. People buy more the less things cost and big buys should be rewarded by waived postage after a set sum. You don't charge more for buying more. Indeed, I am going to go through the SLOW shopping cart and webpages and choose only the most rare, affordable books I want most. Grrr! I was hoping to announce that "Dream Thieves" and "Blue Lily" were on their way. P.S. I wrote at our "Kerri" and "Carolyn" member folders.

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I am loving all your music writings today, Kerri! I love that Gordon Lightfoot was known by your family and the UK but is becoming a favourite of yours. You have several more songs now. I was hit by his death because I didn't know he was recently in Winnipeg and wanted to see him again. Yes, due to our music project, he was on my mind and then that music special drew me into him more.

Tina is the soundtrack of my 1980s childhood and many people's in the 1990s. I am not a fan of fighting movies but saw "Mad Max" and of course constantly heard its theme song when it was new. Hearing songs and artists come out in the 1980s was one of my greatest thrills and I still love them today. I think of it as the decade that was as modern as possible, before computers took people's attention. That is why I love novels published then.

As for Corey Hart, he is as personal as it gets to my music life. I have a Wordpress article about that and gave you the link for my first one. Haha, it is sweet for you to share in his birthday. Since I gave you almost every song he has made, you are about to get to know him better than you did before! I am keen to know how familiar your family is with him or his songs. I am guessing your parents are a bit older than me, which means they know all these artists. I love that you do too.

Yes, Tina is an example of a strong woman who took a life that started out rough and insisted on making it easy. This is a play on her sexy spoken version of "Proud Mary". :) I have fond memories of an Oprah Show fan getting to meet her in Switzerland and seeing how peaceful and vibrant she was in later years. I doubt I would attempt her vocals at karaoke but sure love her.

We thankfully never experienced fire. They can burn out. I will not contemplate trees, plants, or animals homes are lost. Yes, precipitation including snow and reduced wind are very important.

I wrote of Alberta's fires, which Ron heard ramped up, sadly. I was stunned to hear of a fire in Nova Scotia, right on the ocean but it is better, Ron thinks. I'm not a news watcher. A fire started in British Columbia. The heat wave has cool relief yesterday and today and the wind is down. May it be true in all the places that need it. We in southern Manitoba are very green and have rained enough to saturate the environment. We pray for more from now on, for everyone!

Please refresh me on the "Ulrich" part. I don't know if you caught my post. I answered Shirin that yes, the larger percentage of this book is in the past of numerous countries, very well done. I assume unnamed settings are in their author's country and wrote about a boss not adopting his kids because fostering them brought an income that helped afford their extended family.

It is against the law to drink and drive anywhere in Canada. I don't know if a lone driver would be charged for the presence of substances, if discovered after an accident. I think only if he had harmed someone else and usually, only if he is caught operating a vehicle "under the influence".

This is your show but when I have a few reminders of what you are reading, it is great fun to watch your reactions to them and to discuss them at last! :) Yes, Andrew's humour is very present. Do we know the protagonist's present day name? I imagine it is eventually used by doctors and Marianne but don't recall it.

Hi ladies! I don't remember a note about the monastery in the introduction. Rest assured this novel goes into impressive varieties of colourful, vibrant, historical storytelling. Those locations and time periods are so original, I loved them.

Everyone remembers the terrible injury descriptions. It is peculiar the protagonist was a porn actor. I doubt it is ever a valid choice. I'm trying to remember the reasoning. I think uncaring foster-parents, in it for the money, did not put him on a path to higher education. So work at an office or store, I say.

I imagine books to be set in an author's country, unless they say it is somewhere else. Canada does give foster parents money for care. I worked with someone who loved their kids and would formally adopt them if they had to but receiving government assistance helped them.

I wrote at the Raven Boys conversation page but have not reviewed the novel yet. You are funny, about your poor Mom noticing the difficult reading parts of "The Gargoyle"! Yes, he knew Heaven would have a beautiful sky, not metal.

Hi Kerri! I thought this was a nice place to praise and enjoy an addition to your profile biography! When did you make it? I visit your profile often enough that I hope I am noticing it currently.

"I enjoy the reading challenge but do not let it detract from my favourite aspects of reading: discovering a wonderful book, learning something fascinating, taking the time to live with a book and absorb as much from it as I can. Remembering that reading should be fun, exciting, interesting, mind-expanding, occasionally dull!"

Wow, this is an intelligent, inspiring explanation of something I feel the same about. I am blessed to have you as my friend, Kerri, who often impresses and elevates me by writing in a more apt and interesting way than how it came to mind for me to express it. Not wanting to be bothered by mathematical goal estimates is the reason I don't turn on Goodreads' badge until late in the year.

I have big books I want to read this year too and like you this month, I am gone nights without open the books by my bedside. The freedom to read whatever I want from book to book, is why I don't review for free copies (if publishers mailed print books to Canada) and why I quit the 30+ reading themes in which I used to participate. I choose each time entirely by mood and need. My annual quota is annoying enough in the background of my mind.

It would help if I did not see Shirin breezing through 50 books halfway in this year. ;) However, what I have read from you today is a boost for me to stem any intrustion and to not care a whit about how long I spend on any books - short, medium, or long; in any depth of contents. This is my favourite part of all you said, making me feel like it was stated for me and I agree with you, with joy! Love, Carolyn.

"Take the time to live with a book and absorb as much from it as I can."

Dear Kerri, if you want to find an aeroplane deal and fly over here to help Ron & I with OUR summer cleaning, it would be a big help and a hoot! You would find your nose in books often but could have them as recompense! With love and not really joking but knowing money is tight for most of us at the moment, Carolyn.

May we all always have dear trees gracing, enriching, protecting, and beautifying our lives; my good friends! Finding natural gum and taking any school trip in New Zealand sounds like fun. Oh, there is a thunderstorm approaching so I had better sign off to preserve our internet modem.

Yes, appreciating a financial boost from an abundant or lucky source, is fine with me like I wrote. It certainly wouldn't make Adam feel like a loser to take what Richard Guansy has much of to spare and pay some back, if he felt like he must. At least accept the safe place to live, study, rest, eat, and go to school. I agree definitely.

The Aboriginals of this region are the language that would be the most ancient but yes, Latin or Welsh are what the Raven King's magical situation brought along to the trees around him, I guess.

Ladies, let me know which ley lines are near you and which special sites are around them, like petroforms or interesting buildings.

I will never forget receiving a phone call from my Mom, in her birth province, the day Ron & I were led to that very special Spirit Tree. We had sought it on the wrong trail last time, on an unclear map. When at last we were there, sitting to enjoy her, there was my dear Mom on my phone. Love, Carolyn.

Hi Shirin, yes I added a Manitoba artbook to go with the history of an Ontario gold rush. The history was authored by my Mom's highschool friend, for they are from that town! But since it is serious detail and there has been a heat wave for two weeks, I slowed down. Also ready for me to read is the third Robert A. Arthur mystery but I paused it because I do not have the next novel! Shirin, we had a little more to say about "The Raven Boys", so please check the group. :)

"Hello Lassies" is very fun, Shirin! I love your Scottish salutation and am part Scottish & Irish myself! Your friend, Carolyn.