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Much like kale and crystals once took the health world by storm, CBD has become the wellness product of the moment, and everyone from fitness gurus and health-conscious moms to active retirees are interested in giving it a try. Not sure where to start? Confused about what exactly CBD is, and how much you should use? You've come to the right place. We've got the answers to your biggest CBD questions.
CBD is short for cannabidiol, which is one of approximately 100 natural chemical compounds called cannabinoids (confusing much?) found in the cannabis plant. Tetrahydrocannabinol — more commonly known as THC — is another cannabinoid you've probably heard of.
You got it. Unlike THC, CBD has no psychotoxic properties. It won't make you feel euphoric, give you dry eyes, have you reaching for a late-night snack, or make you collapse into a fit of giggles. In other words: CBD won't make you feel intoxicated or otherwise impaired.
It's only natural that many first-time users think CBD will have the same effects as marijuana, which is also derived from the cannabis plant, but that's not something you need to worry about.
Picture a family tree. At the top, there's the cannabis plant, of which there are two main classifications: marijuana and hemp. Both are made up of CBD and THC, but the amounts of these compounds vary drastically in each plant. Marijuana products typically contain more than 20% THC (the psychotoxic compound), whereas hemp-based products contain less than 0.3% THC. When buying CBD, look for oils and tinctures that have been derived from hemp, and keep these ratios in mind when testing different doses.
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Nominations now closed for receiving name suggestions!
Thank you everyone for sending in your ideas for a name for Region 5! We have received so many wonderful ideas, and are in the process of shortlisting them and considering how the final decision will be made.
In the meanwhile, a motion was passed at our last commission meeting making Region 5 of the United Church of Canada our legal name for legal and transition purposes.
Stay tuned for more name information in the new year!
Mantario Region
Glacial Waters
Meeting Waters
Rocky Prairies
Winding Rivers
Misikamaw (Cree for big lake)
Gichigami (big lake)
Mighty Waters
Prairie to Pine
(human being, people)
Mamawe oti askihk
Planning is now well underway for the first gathering / meeting of the full Region 5 membership.
The Transition Commission and the Meeting Planning team are working hard to organize a regional gathering that is more than the initial business meeting of the Region. The discussions to fine-tune the theme have been rich and full!
YES, as you read in earlier info-bulletins, the gathering will be held at the Keystone Centre in Brandon MB.
There are many quality places to stay in Brandon, but if you want to reserve a room at the Canad Inns attached to the Keystone, they do have a block of rooms set aside for the gathering.
Each person is to make their own reservation.
Reminder – Each congregation will need to name their voting delegate(s) at their annual meeting. The number of delegates for each congregation/community of faith is exactly the same as it was for Conference. Please save the dates and watch for more information early in the New Year.
Canad Inns Destination Centre Brandon
1 (204) 727—1422
Quote: "United Church Region 5" or use Group Reservation # 385913
Room rate is $119 plus tax per night.
By now every congregation should have received information about assessments from General Council. On October 25 every congregation was sent login information to see their assessment online (this was sent to whomever received the statistic forms in the past).
On December 12 another email was sent with assessment information and
options as to how you want to pay and the payment frequency.
There is more information on the new Asessement Process Webpage: https://www.unitedchurch.ca/leadership/churchadministration/
Effective January 1, 2019:
Committee on Ministry Personnel Support consists of:
Committee on Community of Faith Support consists of:
Committee on Lay Ministry Support consists of:
Pastoral Relations Commission consists of:
A Property Commission has been established consisting of Ken Thomas,
(Roland), Dwight Rutherford and Keith McFarlane, (Winnipeg), Chuck Ross
(Treherne) and Ron Marlin (Dauphin).
An interim property policy and process document as been approved by the
Transition Commission, consistent with the three regions and responding to the Calls to the Church as passed by General Council 43. The PC will handle property matters until the end of June.
All communication on property matters may be sent to the Regional Council email or sent to Ken Thomas at firstname.lastname@example.com.
ChurchHub is a family of portals that allows communities of faith, ministry
personnel, staff, and church members who are serving on denominational
committees to communicate with the denomination.
For communities of faith and ministry personnel, the pastoral relations system has moved online to be part of ChurchHub.
The introduction to ChurchHub webinar is available to watch on united-in-learning.com. This page includes the webinar, a FAQ page, and the slides included in the presentation.
As we restructure into our new entity there will continue to be a need for people to share their time and talent in a wide variety of ways.
To this end, YOU may be getting a phone call or an email asking YOU to share your talents and time as we live into the work and service that will belong to Region 5.
To those of you who have already said yes, and to those of you who will, many thanks. We know that all who are asked will prayerfully consider the request before them and we thank all of you for your openness as we seek to serve God in this time and place.
December 2018 – Region 5 of the United Church of Canada
Regions 2, 4 & 5 Staffing Update
Region 5 Transition Commission Information Bulletin #2
Region 5 Transition Commission Information Bulletin #1
Sherri McConnell, Chairperson
Shannon McCarthy, Executive Minister
Wayne Sanderson
Betty Kelly
Kathy Highmoor
Barb Miller
Robert Smith
Mária Szabó Bérces
Ken Thomas
Gloria Cook
Grant Queskekapow
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Mum died yesterday at ten minutes to six in the evening. I got that dreaded call in the morning and drove over to Musselburgh to be by her side.
It was a long and silent day. A day of hand holding and memories. My chatter, my tears, oh God even my singing – anything to pass the time with her and hope beyond hope that she was hearing me.
When I first arrived she was drifting in and out, she couldn't speak but sometimes could nod yes or no to questions. "I love you so much Mum, do you love me back?" A nod that means the whole damn world to me, a treasure to clutch to my heart and hold tight to like a child afraid of a storm and holding an outstreatched loved hand for safety, comfort and hope.
I think my Mum lost her life over six years ago when my Dad died. She had been his constant companion. His bickering partner but love of eachothers lives. Her meaning was gone when he left her world. There was nothing left to work for and time began to take it's toll in the cruelest of ways.
Never take vitality and health for granted my friends, it can be swept away in an instant, or in an insidious and withering ache that lasts for years.
She always said that the best thing I ever did was have Idgy. I had resented that feeling it made me worthless and only good as something for reproducing someone better. Now I see that she never meant that at all. Idgy is my precious gift and I was able to bring her into this world. My Mum couldn't have children of her own, so Idgy was that much more special. I'm so sorry Mum, now I understand.
There were three of us there yesterday in the final moments. She had her wish and held both of our hands. Differences and fights forgotten in a moment of total all encompassing love.
It was a long vigil but something I felt I owed her for all those years she had been there for me. If I eased her way into the next world I will have done something to be proud of. The ticking of the clock was loud in the silence. You can't read, you can't look away. You are there just to be There, not to fill your head with anything else apart from that beloved person and those precious moments.
Constant prayers for her just to let go, rest in peace.
She battled on until Colin finally arrived. Dealing with the grief in his own way that did not elate to mine, but this is no place for recriminations. This is the place for love.
I have to thank all of you who sent me comments and emails of support and love yesterday. Reading them helped me to get through the worst and longest day of my life.
This is the last photo of my Mum and it says it all, hands entined for the last day for the final journey. All those years when she held mine when I needed support, I hope my hand gave you comfort on the journey that I couldn't take with you.
Oh Mum I didn't want to let you go.
I love you now and forever more.
Helen Hamilton Gorrie 06.04.1920 – 15.11.2012
Your loving daughter and faithful friend
Karen xxx (yes Mum just for today I will use the name you gave me that I changed all those years ago).


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October 2018 officially landed Swift as one of the top 10 programming languages in the TIOBE Index, a marked achievement within two years of its launch. As Apple launched this programming language in 2014, calling it the "Objective-C without C", Swift development was quick to gain traction.
As per Apple's announcement at the WWDC 2014, the whole aim of Swift programming language was to make the development task easier for developers to create iOS apps. The very nature of this language did enable them to code faster than they ever could with Objective-C. The idea was to combine the best of C and Objective-C, but eradicating the compatibility issues that had existed.
It took four years for the Apple developers team to create and launch Swift. But to the surprise of the world, none from the outside even had the whiff of it until Apple launched it. And once the world had discovered iOS development with Swift, it was glad it did.
Big brands like LinkedIn, Twitter, Fitbit, Coursera, Lyft, etc., have already been using Swift. Nevertheless, what this language has in front of it is the tough competition that other bigger players that have been rocking the market. Let's what all good and not-so-good it has to offer, and what's the latest with Swift.
Let's start with getting to know Swift development better.
What is Swift?
"general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, Linux and z/OS."
Swift is now an open source programming language. The aim to create a sound programming language by opening the technology to all. And so, within 3 years of it launch, Swift could boast of a large community and a spectrum of third-party tools.
Unlike Objective-C, it is friendly to novice programmers. It is expressive and enjoyable at the same time. It is compatible with devices with operating systems iOS7, OSX10.9, and higher.
The core value that Swift offers is safety, but it also aims at making the code look more natural.
The Swift Rise of Swift Development for iOS
The Creation and the Launch
It was Chris Lattner, Apple's Senior Director of the Developer Tools Department at the time, who has started developing the Swift programming language way back in 2010, as well, an alternative to Objective-C. After four years of hard work and secrecy, Apple revealed this language to the world at the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference.
For the fear of causing massive disruption in a probable scenario wherein all iOS developers will have to move to an altogether new language, Apple kept investing in Objective-C. And it kept doing so till it was ready to launch an iOS mobile development language that was safer than Objective-C.
Much later, in January 2017, Lattner even spoke about it in the Accidental Tech Podcast,
"Initially, it was really just me messing around and nobody knew about it because it wasn't anything to know about. But eventually, it got a little bit more serious […] We got a couple people working on it part-time and I convinced my manager that it was interesting enough that we could have a couple of people work on it."
Come 2014, developers had the beta version to play with. Within just one month of its release, Tim Cook announced that 11 million downloads had already been made.
The Response
Statistics from: StackOverflow
While the initial reactions were of a mixed sort, the language was still on its way to evolution, introducing improvements release by release. And then, 2015 witnessed it as the "most loved" languages for iOS app development (2015 StackOverflow Developer Survey).
Spurred by this growth, Apple made Swift open source the very same year. The result – by 2017, Swift became the fastest growing language in the history of the TIOBE Index, entering the top 10 list in March 2017. Even after the release of Swift 4.0 in September 2017, and Swift 4.2 in September 2018, it stayed at #10 till 2018.
2019 has, however, seen it slip down by 4 ranks, owing to reasons which we'll discuss later in the blog.
The Good in Swift
When we talk of all the good that lies in app development with Swift is majorly in comparison with Objective-C. Let's go ahead and see what all it has to offer to us.
Faster Development Process
As simple, clean, yet expressive language as Swift is, its simplified grammar and syntax make it ever so easy to read and write. Its virtue of being concise reduces the development time since a lesser volume of code can perform the same task as Objective-C used to perform with a longer code.
All thanks to ARC – Automatic Reference Counting – Swifts' memory usage is well-managed thus saving the coder the effort spent in doing so manually.
Improved Safety
Safety was always a core idea behind the introduction of Swift to iOS developers. It is certainly less error-prone, owing to its error handling capabilities and enhanced typing system. There are lesser code crashes as compared to Objective-C.
Swift developers are able to see the code errors instantly and fix them right away because of the short feedback loop. Bug fixing, thus, takes a short time and prevents the deployment of low-quality code.
Better Performance
Swift is not a misnomer for this language for iOS application development. Its very focus is speed and better performance. In fact, the initial release of Swift claimed up to 40% spike in performance as compared to what Objective-C was delivering back then. And it has been largely true to the performance promises it has made,
Lesser Memory Footprint with Dynamic Libraries
Swift allows you the lightness of memory through dynamic libraries. The absence of static libraries ensures that the memory is never clogged up. Since dynamic libraries have a copy in only one file, decreased footprints benefits you when you use a score of third-party code to build a Swift application.
Cross-Device Support
This language is not just meant for iOS application development for iPhones and iPads. It is meant to support the full span of Apple devices ( Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV). Besides, it supports Linux as well.
There was a time when we heard the rumors that, impressed with Swift, even Google may go for Swift for app development while sacrificing Java. However, now we all know that Kotlin is the future of android app development.
Full stack Capabilities
Swift for server-end, consolidates the best of backend technologies that developers are likely to need. This is what the power of the cloud can bring to the table. Using Swift, just like Java, for backend as well as the frontend of applications gives you the power to share and reuse the code extensively. The result – shorter still development time and lesser still efforts on the coders' part.
Large Open-Source Community Support
Since Swift turned open-source on December 3rd, 2015, a large and rather vibrant developer community has formed around the language. And that is what makes it easier still to learn and adapt to because there is the support that new developers need.
So, there is a massive contribution from developers for fixing bugs, enhancing the language itself, and even add more useful features.
Compatibility with Objective-C
As the present scenario is, we see a co-existence of Objective-C and Swift for iOS development. Actually, there are two possibilities; not only can you add features with Swift to a code that has already been written in Objective-C, but also vice versa. Both can be used interchangeably in one and the same project. Their compatibility makes their amalgam risk-free.
Learnability with Playgrounds
New, as this language is, Swift helps its users learn it with an application called Playgrounds. Even if one doesn't have an in-depth knowledge of Swift, one can easily learn the language with Playgrounds.
Newer Swift developers use this application to assist them in writing as well as testing their code, without actually having to create the whole app. This not only helps shorten the learning curve but also the development cycle.
The Bad in Swift
As the order of nature goes, nothing is perfect. Swift too has some challenges in its way; that the community around it is constantly working to resolve.
Still a Young Language
There is no denying the fact that the language has been progressing full-throttle, but neither can we ignore that fact that it is still a young language, especially in relation to Objective-C. This is why issues do crop up from time to time, which, of course, need resolution.
Moreover, Swift still has a very limited number of "native" libraries and tools: Many of the available resources and tools dedicated to earlier Swift versions are useless with the newer releases.
Very Few Native Libraries and Tools
It's been four years since the launch, and Swift can still not boast of a large number of native libraries. While its memory management may help developers with dynamic libraries, native libraries are important.
The same problem lies with the native tools, which makes it highly dependent on third-party tools, whereby compatibility issues arise. The trouble is also that the available native resources that belong to earlier versions of Swift are rendered useless as newer releases arrive.
Nascent Talent Pool
The community is growing fast. Yes, it is. However, if we look at other communities of developers, this one seems like it still has a talent pool that is at its nascent stage.
However, the demand for Swift developers only seems to be increasing as a result of its popularity. Hence, the talent gap.
No Support for Older Versions of Operating Systems
Swift is meant for iOS app development only for iOS7, OSX10.9, and higher versions. So, using it for other older projects that run on older OS versions is not possible.
Nevertheless, with only around 5% of devices using iOS6 and older operating system versions are presently in use. So, this problem may as well become a no-problem soon.
Poor Compatibility with IDEs and Third-Party Tools
As we mentioned before, by large there is an incompatibility with third-party tools because of frequent updates causing the older tool compatibility to go defunct. This makes it very difficult to find the right tools.
Xcode, Apple's official IDE isn't that great when it comes to native tools and support. Apart from this, developers also face issues with compilers, syntax, highlighting, autocomplete and even refactoring tools.
The Latest in Swift – Swift 4.2
On October 30, 2018, Swift 4.2 was officially launched as the stable version. It is a major release for the language and has introduced some major changes to Swift. Let's see what's new in Swift.
Generic Changes
Swift 4.2 has implemented generics, thus offering better support for them. The result is the reduced amount of bipolerate requirement, making the code more usable.
Updates in Standard Library
Now the standard library has a host of new features, like improvements in the Hashable protocol and a brand new unified set of randomization protocols as well as functions.
Binary Compatibility Improvements
Swift is now closest to a stabilized ABI it has ever been. It has now enabled binary compatibility for any future releases of the language.
Batch Mode Compilation Support
There is now support for batch mode compilation. This has resulted in faster build times. There are also changes in calling convention for retain/release cycle. So, there is decreased code size and better runtime performance.
Updates in Package Manager
Swift 4.2 targets are compiled through the batch mode of Swift compiler. The new watch option in the generate-xcodeproj lets you watch the file system and if required, generate the Xcode project automatically. It has also made improvements to the scheme generation logic as well.
Is Swift 5.0 around the Corner?
While earlier, a release was speculated in late 2018, it is now in early/mid-2019 that we'll have rendezvous with Swift 5.
"While ABI stability means the language will support older versions, that's not fully ironed out. The team says version 4.2 "should" compile with version 5, but notes the 4.2 release will be the last to support Swift 3."
The growth that Swift has seen in the past four years since its launch, is promising and encouraging indeed. Its features like ease of readability and writing, cleaner, more expressive form and syntax, and a shorter development cycle, etc., make it a great contender against Objective-C.
Its advantages, by large, overshadow its disadvantages. The disadvantages, however, we think, are just a matter of time. Things have improved since Swift 4.2. And now we await Swift 5 to see what's new.


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I've been living on the pug farm for just over a year now and one of the things I love most about my house and land is the wildlife..I live in a pretty unspoiled section north of the town and I'm often treated to a variety of animal visitors: Bear, deer, red fox, coyote, birds of all kind and raptors too: hawks, owls, etc. Luckily I haven't seen any snakes yet because then I may have to move.
The wild turkeys are one of my favorites. They are creatures of habit and routine. Just like clockwork each time I mow the lawn, they come flocking in to eat all of the fresh bugs I've churned up in the grass and they linger around for days. I come home from work and there they are in my driveway or strutting through my back yard. I love it too because they eat all of the mosquitoes, ticks, and flies!
Usually I'm too slow on the camera, but this weekend I managed to get a shot of my gobblers..the babies are really cute.
There is a down side to being in a happy new relationship, and I'm not talking about the extra 5-10 love pounds you pack on from eating and living like a rock star when things are all new and limitless feeling.
No, I'm referring to sleep deprivation.
Something I'm not coping with very well.. It starts with an anxious, restless feeling. You can't wait to see the other person and then when they're finally there you don't want to, or can't sleep because you might miss something that you spent so many nights alone longing for...or your adrenaline is just too maxed out to sleep even if you wanted to...
But then a few months in - the Oxytocin hormones start to settle down and you move into the comfortable phase. This I believe, is when you start letting your guard down, which is awesome but it's also the time when you start to see little glimmers of the things that might end up irritating the crap out of you in the long run.
Snoring for instance, your partner inching over to your side of the bed to be near you when they still have 3 feet of space on their own side. Elbows bumping into your head, boney knees poking you in the shins, Puggles pinning your legs down and not being allowed to have my own trusty fan blow air on the bed because the "breeze" messes up their sinuses and makes them congested the next day.
Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining. These are good problems to have and minor compromises to make. But the truth is, I've been an independent girl for a long time and as great as things are and as lucky as I feel to have found what I've found, it hasn't been easy giving up some of my basic freedom and space. Particularly my queen size bed space.
To make matters worse Angelo (the puggle) has been keeping me up the past two nights.
He hears something in the wall, something making scratching sounds. He sits on the floor near the wall staring at whatever it is and sometimes he scratches back with his paw on the wall and barks.
All hours of the night. I try to coax him to come up to the bed and go to sleep but he just sits at the foot of the bed staring at that wall and every 20 minutes when he hears even a glimmer of a scratch he propels his hind legs off the bed and lunges at the wall with the same ferocity he displays when he chases his basketball.
And each time I start to nod off again, he lunges again, and barks, and scratches at the wall...then jumps up on my side of the bed and starts licking my face to warn me that there is an interloper among us.
I'm also two days into one of my 3 day long migraines. And I'm hot and I'm not allowed to sleep with my fan on and I'm facing no sleep heading into a Monday morning of a long ass week.
As irritated as I am, I have to love the little 13 pound ball of fire with all the heart of a 150 pound guard dog. We've come a long way in a short time. Even though he's a total Daddy's boy, it's me he tries to protect now. It's me he wants to snuggle with on the couch, and me he comes to in the morning and evening for his special wet food with a squirt of Grizzly Salmon oil. Daddy never does that.
But the strange goings on with the noise in the wall took a spooky turn last night. At one point, around midnight, I got up and turned the hall light on to investigate and try to see if I could see what he sees.
But the hall light, which is connected to the wall he was staring and barking at, would ominously not turn on. I flipped the switch a couple times and nothing...so I choked it up to a light bulb blowing and mice possibly scurrying in the attic and I attempted to go back to bed.
It was about 20 minutes later when I was laying there in the dark, Puggle pinning my feet down so I couldn't move, his Daddy snoring to the left of me, sweating my butt off with no fan, and feeling like someone drove an axe into the right side of my eyeball...when suddenly the hall light went on all by itself.
Angelo leaped about 10 feet from the foot of the bed back to the wall and started scratching, barking, and biting at it..
Now I was scared. Maybe it wasn't a mouse after all...maybe it was those new dressers we picked up at the Tag Sale, maybe they were haunted...the pug farm was never haunted before they were brought in..old furniture scares me. All kinds of irrational thoughts starting zooming through my head.
It felt like I was living my own version of Paranormal Activity.
How could a mouse or a squirrel or whatever turn a light off, and then on? IT felt like something was messing with me.
And then I remembered how I came home the other day and 3 of my Adirondack chairs were tipped upside down, all in a neat row next to each other with no logical explanation of how they got that way - like in Poltergeist..
Its funny how men can sleep through just about anything; dogs barking, wall scratching, and lights spontaneously turning on by themselves...
I never did find out what the noise was. And I'm too afraid to turn the light switch back on right now. I hope it's nothing too sinister and it gets resolved soon because I'm seriously sleep deprived. I couldn't even drive a straight line into work.
Also, the new puppies are coming soon... I was planning on buying a new furnace this summer, but it's become painfully clear that the bigger priority is investing in a California King sized bed. And maybe some ear plugs, and a sleep mask.
Not a problem in the sense that they bother me or anything but from a health perspective it's becoming a problem. There are dead mice in my basement and there are live mouse droppings showing up in my cupboards.
The odd thing is I've checked all the cupboards and the only place I see the droppings is in my silverware drawer. I am getting a little tired of bleaching the drawer and running all the silverware through the dishwasher on anti bacterial cycle.
Now, I am not one to kill any living thing unless it is an outright threat to my survival. And so I find myself a bit torn over what to do with these mice.
I don't want to kill them and I don't even think I could handle seeing a dead mouse in a trap, let alone one that I was responsible for setting.
I am leaning more towards relocation traps that just trap the mice and then you can relocate them to another area. But isn't that cruel as well?
If I relocate them outside they will either freeze or get eaten by wildlife. And if they are lucky enough to not have either of those things happen, they will likely just find their way back in, and multiply.
Still I am thinking the catch and release method is the way to go. At least it's rolling the dice and letting nature take its course versus me having to kill a living breathing thing. And if I do say so, a cute one at that.
I mean, I was depressed for days after I had to kill those slugs last summer, and they are cold blooded spineless invertebrate with no brains.
Before you suggest it - I am not a cat person, so getting a cat to solve the problem is not an option.
Can anyone recommend some humane relocation mouse traps? All I can seem to find are traps that wound, poison, and electrocute mice. I can't bring myself to use any of those.
This lovely oak sits in my front yard. Winter is really the only time I get to enjoy it. It's even prettier with all of the snow balls resting on the branches. It reminds me of a Dr. Seuss tree.
I gotta say, being a new homeowner was much more fun in the spring and summer..
A view from the dog kennel. I hope Plummy realizes she will be peeing inside on her wee wee pads for a while..
Project - Dining Room
Roman Drape Shades - $9.90 ea. on eBay. free shipping.
Framed Fireplace Painting - $19.99, Michaels Craft Store
Antique Pug Painting - $19.99 Bombay Company purchased in 1997
Wall sconces - $8.99 ea., TJ Max purchased in 1997
Pug statues - gifts from over the years
Blue & Green Sari Dining Cushion - $14.99 ea., Pier One
Crystal Candlestick holders - $0.25 ea., church tag sale
Rubber Tree Plants - $9.99 ea. Big Y Supermarket
China Closet - free family hand-me-down
Who wants to come over for dinner?
Or a game of Clue?
It all started a few nights ago when I was in the gym, having a particularly awesome cardio session. When I got off my elliptical machine I went into the kitchen to grab another water and I caught glimpse of Plum in the living room, peeing on my Yoga mat.
In her defense I should point out that the Yoga mat is the same color as her wee pads and she is battling some kidney problems right now (always defending the pugs).
Anyway I quickly grabbed the rubber Yoga mat and ran it outside to the garden hose before the ammonia had a chance to seep in...it was on my way to the hose that I stepped on a giant leopard slug and it went squish all over the place, DISGUSTING!! Thank God I was wearing sneakers because if it squished between my toes that would have done me in...
I started noticing the slugs on day 4 of living in the new house. It seems the pug farm is home to this freakishly giant mutant strain of leopard slugs. Up until this point they haven't bothered me all that much. They only come out at night when it has rained and they for the most part keep out of my way and I keep out of theirs.
Then I came home late Saturday night this weekend - of course I had left early in the afternoon and did not leave the outside light on for myself...it was dark when I approached my door so I didn't notice anything out of place.
I went inside and there was Plummy curled up in her cuddle bed which I placed under the breakfast nook in the kitchen, that's where she likes to lay sometimes when I'm not around..
It wasn't until I went inside and flipped the light on to let her out to pee that I noticed.....2 giant slugs suctioned to my glass door like leeches! And slug-slime everywhere..
It had become clear now that the slugs were trying to attack me and exact revenge for killing their leader the other day. So the war is now on. I didn't want to have to hurt the slugs, I wanted to coexist in peace with them...but never in all my years of living in the northeast have I seen slugs climb...like they are trying to get me!! Clearly they have not come in peace.
I am told that leaving out saucers of beer is the best way to get rid of them. Less cruel than dousing them with salt (I don't' need any more bad slug karma). They die happy this way.
I will be picking up a six pack of beer today.....If it doesn't work....I might have to move.
Story developing...
I have been busy readying the pug farm for our first official guests!
A dear old friend of mine whom I have not seen in over 20 years is in town from Colorado for his high school reunion and will be staying with me for a couple nights.
This is one of the reasons why I do like Facebook, it reconnects people who have lost touch over the years. Good people who you really and truly have missed.
Now off to tidy up the guest room w/ clean sheets and fresh towels...
Last night he took my 95 gallon FULL garbage can and dragged it 200 feet down the road.
At first I thought it was vandals, after all it was only last week that some passerby flung a used condom out of his car window and the soiled prophylactic landed smack dab in the middle of my driveway. (my poor 70 y/o father had to pick it up with two twigs and fling it into the bushes, hoping some buzzard might take it away).
But then I saw tracks, and a big claw mark in one of the hefty bags and there was trashed strewn all along the roadside that I had to pick up on my way to work.
Pesky Bruin.
I read in the newspaper this weekend that another resident just a few roads over had a bear recently appear at her front doorstep and he actually reached out with his paw to within inches of her before she dove back into the house.
The DEP came and set up this bear trap in her yard.
Photo by Walter Kidd.
I don't know if it's the same bear or if he'll ever get that close to me...I've been careful to clean off my grill and not leave any garbage or food items near the house.
One thing is for sure, that bear is hungry, even desperate for food if he's coming that close to humans.
I am afraid he might try to eat Plummy. She is an awfully juicy little morsel.
Mowing my 3 acres AND getting my recommended daily allowance of Vitamin D. Priceless.
I had my very first BBQ on the fourth of July. I think it went well despite the Triple H heatwave and this nasty cold I've been fighting for a week.
Here I am shucking corn at the sink! I am very domestic now.
What's that I see, a little pug head in the background begging for food?
My first set table before the vultures all swooped in..
It was a fine first feast.
One of my favorite features of the new house is the standalone dog tub, making it hella easy to give pug baths. Plummy on the other hand is not too keen on it just yet :)
Contemplating an escape but she realizes it's a long way down. Too long to make a jump for it...Plummy is totally reminding me of "the Lorax" in this picture.
Defeated and given up. But oh. so. clean.
Does a bear shit in the woods?
I can now definitively answer the question beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes. Yes they do. They also shit on my flagstone walkway.
That's right - I now know for sure there are bear up in my neck of the woods. And one of them decided to leave behind his bear dung as a little "welcome to the neighborhood" gift to me. I would post a picture of it here but it's kind of nasty.
A few nights later one of my girlfriends came for a visit to see the new place. Before long we got into a few glasses of wine. It seems I'm becoming more of a drinker now that I'm a homeowner. I think it helps quell the reality of obligation and responsibility that I now carry.
It was a rainy night and when I went to walk her outside I noticed all over my walkway (the same walkway where I found the bear shit) there were several giant slugs that actually looked like leeches with antennae, about 4 or 5 inches in length .....leaving behind a trail of mucousy slime all down my flagstone path. Oh Mama!!
Now I consider myself a pretty animal friendly girl who is not afraid to rough it in the wilderness. I can take fish off of hooks (though I prefer the barbless kind that doesn't hurt them) I can camp in the forest, and love nothing more than to go for a long hike in the woods.... I am not afraid of spiders, bats, mice, lizards or frogs. I can even learn to live with the fact that there are random black bear roaming about my property at any given time and am fine with learning how to peacefully co-exist with them...
But when it comes to anything that is long and snakelike with no legs I immediately start to feel sick to my stomach. This goes for eels, worms, snakes, and I would have to put slugs in the same category. Especially the giant mutant brand of slugs that appear to call my front flower bed their home.
It doesn't help that I also have issues with slimy textures.
I have been told that leaving out a small dish of beer will attract the slugs. They will drink it, their stomachs' will explode and they die. Now as much as I hate the slugs I'm not sure I want to kill them in such a violent manner either. If only there was a way I could make them leave without hurting them? Is there? Anyone out there have experience with giant mutant slug infestations?
After some Google searching I learned they are Spotted Leopard Slugs...and I do not think they can harm humans, but I know they feed on plants and I've noticed something has been eating my beautiful red Japanese maples, turning the leaves all yellow. If I find out the slugs are the culprit, I will be going straight to the package store and stocking up on Bud Light. Good animal conscience or not.
Last night I came home from work late. I spent the day in the city at an industry conference. As much as I love the city, I love coming home to the country even more. The first thing I did was take a hot steamy shower to wash the stench of the city off of my skin and out of my hair. I was exhausted. I'd just gotten into bed and almost drifted off to sleep when Plummy started barking violently at....something. What? I still have no idea. It's not like her at all. The only time I have ever heard her bark is either at mealtime or when I come home. She has never, I repeat never barked like this. Jumping up and running to the foot of the bed letting out several warning, protective barks and she wouldn't stop.
Finally I had to get up and walk into every room of the house with her. Opening doors to each room proving to her that nothing was there. And she made sure to go into each room and sniff and check it out, like she was totally expecting to find "something". She even stuck her head into the closets to make sure nobody was hiding in there...
We checked the sitting room, the dining room, both bathrooms, the kitchen, the living room, the spare bedroom, the gym, the office, and there was nothing. I looked outside all of the windows and saw nothing out of the norm.
Satisfied, she trotted back into the bedroom, climbed up her stepper, let out a bewildered little sigh....and then drifted off to sleep.
I on the other hand, as exhausted as I was from traipsing around NYC all day, lay awake wondering what it could have been - was someone trespassing? Did she smell the bear outside making his nightly rounds? Did she see or hear something undetectable to the human eyes or ears?
Maybe she was barking at the Slugs! Maybe my house was built on an old haunted slug graveyard!!
Whatever the case - I can deal with the creepy crawly creatures that I can see and hear - but I decided right then and there that it would probably not be a good idea to watch any Poltergeist or Paranormal Activity type movies for a while...
Now that I have figured out exactly how to use it....I can honestly say.... worth every last penny of my monthly mortgage payment.
Especially after a stress filled day at work or a grueling workout in the gym. Even if the gym is, right down the hall :)
Loving my new home!
I was all set to christen my big whirlpool tub the other night, kick back and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Got my glass of wine, lit some candles, added some bubble bath and climbed in for the maiden voyage.
Immediately I felt the stress of the last few months literally melt away, making me feel like it was all worth it. Alas.
I turned on the jets and reveled at how each one seemed to hit just the right spot of tension: one on my back, one on my feet and one on each side of me. I was in a pure state of relaxation..
All of the sudden the bubbles started rising, fast! Nobody ever told me you aren't supposed to add bubble bath to a Jacuzzi. So I found out the hard way.
Next thing I know the bubbles were almost as high as my head. Even after I turned the jets off they kept rising.....and before I knew it, overflowing....over the side of the tub....onto the floor...onto Plummy's head who was an innocent bystander watching the whole parody unfold.
It took until the next morning for all the bubbles in the tub to drain.
Yet another lesson learned.
Hmmmm. Everyone keeps asking me how it feels to be a homeowner. So here's how it went down.
It was by far a smooth move. Certainly a lesson in submissiveness for a Type A personality like me - having no choice but to just let things spin out of control. Boy.did.they.
At the closing I had to come up with an extra unexpected 3 months of prepaid taxes because it took so long to close. There went my big screen TV.
The moving company took 3 hours longer than expected and of course, they charged by the hour. There went my much needed dresser so half of my clothes remain strewn about in large black hefty bags.
The first time I turned my sink on and flushed my toilets the water came out brown and I wanted to cry.
The first time I ran the AC the house didn't cool - all of my pipes froze and I quickly realized on the hottest day of the year that my central air unit was broken and could not be used.
The skylights and huge windows with no blinds were naturally pouring in nonstop amounts of additional heat.
I could not leave the house for the first 4 days because I had back to back deliveries scheduled and they only give you 4 hour windows when you have to be home.
I started panicking about Plum because it's not healthy for pugs to be exposed to 80 degree + temperatures and my house thermometer was reading a continual 90.
I opened the French doors to my balcony and a yellow jackets nest fell down right onto my bedroom floor. Bees started swarming me. I quick grabbed Plum and flung her to safety then proceeded to squash the nest with a broom.
I had to make nonstop trips between the old house and the new one. Taking everything with me but my two most important possessions which would be the last to go.
The telephone company neglected to switch my phone lines on Friday so I went all weekend without a land line.
The furniture company delivered the wrong sofa and love seat, the one I had picked out was discontinued so they sent me the upgrade which I hated.
When I went to pick up the other furniture it wasn't all packed in boxes and of course it started thunder storming just as we were loading on the pick-up.
It was about this point that I started hyperventilating and had to practice some deep breathing techniques.
Then Sears delivered my lawn mower to the old address...and I was desperate to mow down Plummy's dog run so she wouldn't get ticks from the tall grass that was making her allergies worse.
Then the cable company sent a third party scary guy to my house who didn't really know what he was doing. It took him and 3 other guys 5 hours to hook up my cable. And they left behind a big friggen' mess.
Plum's allergies began to flare either from stress or the new environment and instead of letting me sleep, she was so uncomfortable all she could do was sit up in bed and itch and scratch and rub and whimper.....keeping me awake with her. For days.
With the lack of sleep, I lost my appetite, which depleted my energy that I desperately needed to forge on.
That's about when the nervous vein in my right eyeball started twitching from stress.
"Welcome to home ownership," others would mock.
And just like Diane Lane in Under the Tuscan Sun and Diane Keaton in Baby Boom - there was that moment of buyer's remorse and wondering just WTF I had gotten myself into.
And then about mid week things started to shift...
Like when Diane Keaton started making the gourmet baby food and dating the veterinarian and Diane Lane had the steamy affair with that hot guy from Positano.
Things started to click.
I found out the water was only coming out brown because the previous owners had left the house vacant for 2 months and sediment built up in the pipes. I only had to let the water run for a couple hours and it started to clear.
I sucked it up and decided with all this greatness I can survive without my big screen TV for a few more paychecks.
I quickly realized I was just trying to do too much too soon. That I needed to relax and tackle just one box at a time and one room at a time.
Then my riding tractor arrived and once I took a few spins around the lawn I immediately felt calm and happy.
My brother was able to fix the AC - turns out the filter and interior was just clogged, no leaks and nothing major.
I started breathing easier...
Then my Internet was hooked up and I started to feel like my old self again.
The weather got cooler
My appetite came back
Plum is still itching but I booked her an appointment for Saturday.
My gym equipment arrived and I'm so looking forward to working out again.
I retrieved my two most important possessions in life: Pugsley's ashes and my grandmother's bible. Once I had them back with me, it started to feel like home.
I always try to look for the lesson in various situations and I'm pretty sure there are plenty of lessons to be learned as a homeowner.
One might be that I can't always have things my way. That sometimes things will be out of my control and I have to just learn to roll with it.
It's a lesson I know I need to learn. And I'm ready for it.
This is gonna be fun.
the next time you read me I will be blogging from my new house!
aka, the pug farm...................or as it will more formerly be known: Pugs Place!
Peace. out.
Furnishing it and decorating!!!
I just ordered my new dining room table and chairs from Pier one Imports. I am so excited I can't wait to eat the first meal on it!!
I went with modern rustic - a big 7 footer with rich dark wood and just a little distressing but not too much + 8 chairs. I think it will look perfect in front of my red brick fireplace in the dining room. I have always wanted a huge hearty rustic dining room table with farm chairs, and now I will have it all!
For my kitchen breakfast nook I got this rustic looking table from Pier one as well. It has the old fashioned plank boards on top which I LOVE and also gives it a nice farmhouse feel. It will be right in front of my big bay window in the kitchen overlooking the pug farm!
I am thinking of doing chairs on one side, and a bench on the other...to make it more nookish.
I also ordered my sofa and love seat :) Soft brown squishy leathaahh....this is where I will be going belly up with Purdy after long hard days spent toiling in the sun mowing grass and doing yard work.
I was productive in other areas as well, I booked the movers - moving day is on for 6/4/10. Which, coincidentally is the same exact weekend last year that I took Plummy in as a foster!
When I think about how far we both have come in only a year it amazes me. She has been nothing but a good little luck charm for me, for sure.
I scheduled my phone line transfer, locked in a cheaper rate plan. Scheduled garbage pick-up - went w/ the refuse company who offered to give me a community service volunteer discount because I am an animal rescuer - I told them I have a lot of pug garbage and apparently that qualifies.
I booked the Gym Source people to come move my elliptical machine. It actually has to be disassembled in the old apartment and put back together in the new house. It's a $3,500 machine and I didn't want to take any chances with regular movers damaging it. I'm super excited to be able to start working out again. I'm going to turn one of my spare bedrooms into a home gym.
Still left to purchase: Big screen tv, tv stand, riding mower, push mower, weed whacker, and then just little odds and ends.
That's about it.
I am recycling as much else as I can. I'm keeping my very old bedroom furniture for now. And for the rest of the living room I've decided to keep my coffee table and end tables that I've had for the past 16 years. I bought them the same year Pugsley was born in 1994.
The main reason I can't part with them is they still have the Sausages baby teeth marks in the wood from when he was a little teething puppy.. I often run my fingers along the grooves he left in the wood. The coffee table has a special sentimentality as well. I am certain I will be able to refurbish those pieces to make them look nice without removing his precious little bite marks. I just can't part with them yet. Or maybe ever.
Some of you have asked when I will divulge the name of the pug farm. I did decide on the name but will probably not divulge until I'm moved in and the sign has been staked. That's when it will be official and I can show you some pictures. :)
My artist friend has offered to paint a sign for my new house!! Yippe!! So now I have to come up with a name for it. I have 4 possible contenders (and I'm leaning strongly towards one) but I need your help to make the final decision.
Let me give you a little background - It's a country ranch house set on 3 acres of horse property with barns and paddocks and a big fenced in dog enclosure where needy pugs will surely be coming and going throughout the years.
If Oscar Wilde was correct in his Platonic Dialoge that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that passion and Art offers certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy - then I believe that all of the stars in the universe were aligned perfectly for me to find and get this particular house.
I had seen about 20 other houses: Contemporaries, Colonials, houses on the lake, houses on Cul-de-sacs, houses on the street, houses in neighborhoods and developments, houses with big bright open spacious floor plans, gleaming cherry hard wood floors, huge center islands with granite counter tops in the kitchens. You name it, I saw it.
And even though I went into it thinking those were all of the things I wanted...somehow none of them really fit or felt quite right. Nothing really spoke to me until I walked into this one - a 4 bedroom, 2 bath country Ranch on 3 acres of horse property.
My new kitchen doesn't have granite counters or a big center island. But it does have a huge bay window overlooking my pug farm. It does have the perfect spot in the corner for a cozy little breakfast nook... and I can totally see myself cooking Plum's home made dog food and big Sunday dinners there.
In fact the minute I walked into this house it felt like home. I felt an immediate connection to it. To the way the house felt, looked, and even smelled. I could envision myself inhabiting there. Feeling inspired everyday by nature, beauty, and clean, simple living. I could see myself sitting out on my private balcony with a laptop and coffee, writing.
This house has a good soul.
It certainly wasn't the newest, most modern or fancy house - but it was the one that was the most inviting to me and suitable for my current lifestyle. The people that lived there before me were big horse and dog people - my two favorite animals! And so the gorgeous property is perfectly set up to accommodate both.
As I walked through the house for the first time - each room and special little feature delighted me more than the one before, and I started getting excited.
Little things I fell in love with like hardwood floors throughout with tiles in the bathroom, kitchen and dining room. A double sided fireplace, private master suite on one end of the house and all the other bedrooms on the other side. And because it was fashioned after a farmhouse - I even have 2 dutch doors inside, where the tops open to block off animals from certain rooms of the house. Perfect for fostering and separating unruly or feisty pugs! And I even have zoned heating and cooling so I can control which areas of the house I want to set the temperature.
The last room I looked at was this one.
It's a laundry / mud room just off of the oversized master suite which has really been converted into a dog room complete with an exam table (perfect for fixing up all of Plum's ailments), and laundry tub (perfect for her twice weekly baths) and....wait for it.....
....A doggie door that goes directly out into a huge fenced in dog run! This really was the clincher for me. There was no turning back or even entertaining the idea of other houses beyond this point.
And I just know the Sausage had something to do with this.
I can't believe I now have to wait 30 more days to move into my new house. But looking at the bigger picture it's something I've been waiting for and working hard for the past 15 years.... so I don't think one more month is going to kill me....Is it???
Well friends, I am officially under contract.
If all goes well I move into my pug farm in 45 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pics to follow when I actually have the keys. :) :) :) :)
Meanwhile, I'll give you this little snapshot for now... my 2-stall horse barn and paddock. Giddy up!


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Remember a few weeks ago I showed you how I completely revamped the top of a second hand stool?
Well, I have now completed the table too. This was the top of the original table which looked okay but it was flaking terribly underneath and leaving a mess whenever I moved it.
So, on a recent trip to one of the cheap shops I found this carving board.
I could not have picked a better item for this table top. I have actually used the top of the carving board as the underside of the table. Have a look at the groove all around the board which is where the fat is supposed to pool as you're carving your meat.
Now have a look at how precisely the frame of the table actually sits in the groove at each end. Perfect isn't it?
Another little project completed 🙂
I've also been churning out lots of hats on my Addi Kingsize knitting machine and have recently learned a new technique for a brim which entails lifting and hooking stitches over the needles. A crochet hook is not the right implement to use and I noticed on the video that the person was actually using a dental implement so I hopped onto Ebay (what else?) and found this kit for less than $7.
I was particularly interested in this instrument.
So now I can pick up the stitches with relative ease. I'm still not 100% satisfied as the other end of the instrument is pretty sharp so I am thinking about getting a woodturner to make me something similar. This is what I use it for.
Opp shops I love them!! You never know what you're going to find. These are the goodies I found last week. Another sheep and sheep mug 🙂
How many toy sheep and sheep mugs can a girl have? Obviously, in my case, as many as she can get 🙂
This next find is something I've been after for a while. As I don't have a live model for my baby hats the next best thing is a doll so I found 'Annabelle' and she's now my resident model for some of my baby garments.
Here's a selection of pictures of Annabelle modelling some of my knitted baby hats.
These delightful sheep earrings caught my attention as I was searching through Etsy recently. They're made in Gympie in Queensland by a very talented artisan.
Last week I picked up this bargain on Gumtree for only $40. It's a Schacht Inkle Loom. Not that I know how to use it at the moment but weaving is something I want to learn in the not too distant future.
And then to top it off I received a message from local crafty person who had a bundle of old Weaving magazines and rather than just throwing them away would I like them? Luckily the pick up address was very close to where I was meeting some other crafty women of the QldBaysideYarnClub at Tingalpa. These will make some interesting reading. Thank you so much Rosalie!
I think I have exhausted my list of recent finds and ideas so I will leave it there. Now off for a cuppa, read the Sunday paper and then to spin some more of this drum-carded alpaca.
Until next time…


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"So this girl, you said her name was Lynn?" Pat's voice came from down below a five-meter drop of loose rock that Garth was desperately trying to find handholds in as he descended.
"Liz!" Garth shouted down below.
"Liz, got it. You okay up there?"
His cheek pressed hard to the rock's surface, his claws desperately dug in for the least bit of traction he could manage, and his muscles aching already, Garth thought of a thousand answers to the question. As small stones loosened during their descent ricocheted off the top of his head, he finally managed to say "Yeah, I'm fine."
"You look a little precarious," Pat stated. "It's only three meters from where you are. Just jump!"
Garth turned his head, looking down. Pat was gesturing with both hands. "Come on!"
Garth turned slowly, easing himself away from the rockface, then pushed off. The ground came up very fast. "Ooof!"
He hit, rolled, and came to a stop. "Ouch."
"You okay? Nothing twisted?"
Garth looked up, brushing bits of forest floor off his whiskers. "I'm fine, Pat." Turning over and sitting down, he examined himself more carefully. "Everything's in one piece. The next time you give that advice, please remember that we Terrans don't bounce back quite as quickly as you do."
Pat laughed, a sound Garth was beginning to enjoy regardless of the circumstance. "I'll do that. Come on. Here's your pack."
Garth stood up slowly, groaning, and shouldered the heavy pack, locking the belt around his back and settling it onto his hips. "Anyway, she was a really interesting person. I had a few girlfriends for the past two years, but I was really concerned for Kolya and Furry 'cause Kolya and Liz were doing so well."
"But he left her for Furry, right?" Pat led the way down along the streamside that seemed to be heading in the direction of the black cylinder, now visible. Garth thought it looked a long way off, but Pat kept assuring him they'd make it long before nightfall. It was only four lome' as it was; they had gone to bed much earlier than Garth had suspected, and both had awoken over an hour before dawn. That had given them time to wash and have breakfast and break camp long before the first flash of morning light.
"I sort of arranged things that way. I had an email conversation with her. I made her realize just how important Kolya and Furry were to each other. I was surprised. She took it really well."
"Does she love him?"
"I think so," Garth said. "Even though by his own words he's 'off limits' to me, I can understand why people like him. He's very honest, very open."
"I can understand why that would lead people to like him, too," Pat replied, smiling. "Hold up."
"Look." Pat pointed. Ahead of the them, the stream turned to the left suddenly, going in exactly the wrong direction for them. "We have to forge this thing."
"It's not that deep or that fast," Garth said. "At worst, you'll get your dick wet."
"That water is praggin' cold," Pat growled. "It'll either shrivel up and disappear or freeze solid and break off." He grinned. "Oh, well, what's life without castration complex once in a while? Come on, let's do this as quickly as possible." He began running, splashing water left and right. As he made it half way across, the depth slowed him down. He was shoving water out of the way by brute force. It didn't quite reach the bottom of his pack, and Garth figured he could make it just as easily since he was actually taller than Pat.
The water chilled him quickly. It was quite cold. "Bracing!" he said to Pat.
"Freezing is more like it," the Felinzi said.
Garth climbed out of the river quickly. "After the kind of heat we've been through today, I'm surprised you're not enjoying that dip."
"I'd rather be warm," Pat replied. "Come on. I think we're close."
Garth nodded. Pat wasn't wrong; less than half an hour later the imposing black wall of the Hall came into clear focus through the trees. "Hmm," Pat mused. "No break."
"No break. Usually there's a grassy space between the trees and the Hall. This time, the trees come almost up to the edge of the Hall. No door, either."
"Is that good or bad? I'd been told I might have to hunt for the door."
"I'm not sure," Pat said. "It means something, at any rate. Let's start walking. I'm sure we'll find the door eventually." He paused for a moment, pulled a strip of ribbon out of a side pocket on his pack and tied it around a tree. "There. Now we'll know if we've gone all the way around."
As they circumnavigated the Hall, Garth wondered what the point of hiding the door was. He asked.
"I'm not sure. Proof of tenacity and intent, I guess. Three times people have come to the Hall and not found a door. All three eventually walked back and went home. I believe there was a book one woman wrote about her failure to find the door, called 'Like Roland At Jericho.' I'm not sure what the title was supposed to mean."
"Neither am I," Garth admitted.
Pat sighed. "Damn. Another stream."
Garth looked up. As Pat had said, another stream lay before them, this one heading under the wall and into the Great Hall. "Well, there's no getting around this… Hey, Pat, could this be the entrance?"
"You mean, swim under the walls?" Pat grimaced at the idea. "I've never heard of it happening before, but I'm sure it's possible. It's not something I want to do."
Garth nodded. "I can do it alone from here," he said. "It's only a klick inside to the center, right?"
Pat nodded. "You really think this is it?"
"We've almost walked all the way around."
"Look, let's at least walk to the tree. If we don't find the door, you can come back and try it."
Garth nodded. They forded the stream and made their way around the Hall. Finally, Pat had to admit that they'd returned to the tree where he had tied his ribbon. The first words out of his mouth when they found it were "I hate swimming."
"Like I said, I'll go alone," Garth replied. "You don't have to go with me."
"I… Tough position you've put me in, Garth. I hate the idea of leaving you like this."
"Well, don't worry about it." He put his hand on Pat's shoulder. "I'm a big Kat now, I should be able to make my own decisions, right?"
"I'm five times your age."
"Yeah, so?" Garth smiled. "Come on, let's go."
They walked back to the stream. Garth looked at the water flowing under the dark cylinder and said "This is crazy."
"You said you wanted to do it."
"So I did." He dropped his backpack on the ground. "I won't be needing that anymore. At least, that's what everybody tells me." He pulled his T-shirt off and dropped it on the sand, followed by his boots. "I hate losing these shoes after breaking them in so damned quickly."
"That just means they'll lose form fast," Pat said. "But if you want, I can pack 'em out for you and leave them with your friends."
"Could you?" Garth said. "I'd appreciate it."
"Must be nice knowing you'll have the same shoe size coming out."
Garth laughed. "I guess." He stripped off his pants and tossed them into the pile with the rest of his stuff.
Pat smiled. "I didn't get a good look at you last night in the dark. You look good, Garth."
"Thanks," Garth said. "That's something I needed to hear."
"Why so?"
"Because I don't believe it. But it's people like you who convinced me to do this with the morphing off. I just hope I'm not making the biggest mistake of my life."
"Probably not," Pat said. "You're just going ahead with your life the way it should be."
"Who says it should be this way?"
Pat shrugged. "I do. "
"Good enough," Garth admitted. He stepped in the water until it was lapping at his ankles. "Bye, Pat. See you on the other side."
"Maybe someday," Pat said. "Good luck."
Garth dove into the water. It was freezingly cold. He could feel the temperature seeping into his bones, chilling him as he swam under the wall of the Great Hall and into his destiny, or so he hoped.
There was a light ahead of him, and he swam towards it, assuming it to be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. His lungs began to burn a little, then a little more. He began to worry; the light he saw was getting no brighter, but seemed to be dimming and fading away. His heart began to be loud in his ears. He turned around, making sure that he could see the entrance he had come in. It was gone, and when he turned around again so was the light he had been following.
Panic gripped him as if the pressure were about to crush his skull. He swam up, or at least he hoped it was up. The burning in his lungs spread to his heart while the cold gripped his belly. He clawed at the water, disoriented. His thinking was becoming tenuous, then nonexistent. He no longer knew what direction he was swimming in. He could no longer see in the cold, dark tunnel that was going to swallow him and kill him.
NO! This was not the end, he wasn't going to die here. Ken had promised him; nobody ever just "disappeared" on a walk to through The Great Hall. He swam in desperation, and his lungs felt like they were going to explode, and finally they did.
A great rush of cold water filled his chest as he inhaled reflexively. His body gagged, and he felt his stomach muscles cramp at the cold attacking them and he vomited into the water. In the dark, he saw none of it.
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As one of the faces of WCW during the Monday Night Wars, Diamond Dallas Page knows first hand how competition can push everyone to be at their best. WCW pushed WWE to put out a better product and vice versa.
Fast forward over 20 years later and now AEW is entering the market as a competitor to WWE. DDP foresees a similar situation between AEW and WWE that took place during the Monday Night Wars where the wrestling fan benefits from promotions battling it out.
DDP spoke to Wrestling Inc. on our WINCLY podcast about AEW's imminent arrival and WWE's current product.
"I appreciate a lot of the new guys and girls," DDP said of WWE. "I think women's wrestling is at an all-time high. I don't really understand the ratings, but it will be interesting to see what happens with AEW."
DDP talked about how when WCW went against WWE they didn't split the rating WWE was getting, they both just exploded in ratings and both companies benefitted.
"The WCW fans came over too and they just kept increasing the ratings. I think what's happening all around with wrestling is gonna help the business," stated DDP.
Much like a younger wrestler can get the rub from working with a veteran established Superstar, Page was asked if the script will be flipped and if WWE will get a rub from AEW arriving on the scene.
"I don't know because WWE is the juggernaut. But AEW is doing something completely different," said Page. "WWE is rated G and is for families. [AEW] is not aiming for that, they are aiming for an older market, really...
"Cody's like my nephew, but I think it's great for wrestling in general and it's definitely great for wrestlers. In sports entertainment, when there is one dominant force and nothing else, you don't have to work as hard. Coke and Pepsi exploded because they were going against each other. Competition makes things better and I'm excited for the boys."
DDP held a DDPY seminar at All In and will be holding another one in Las Vegas during the morning of Double or Nothing.
"At All In, it broke the previous record as there were 169 people working out at the same time. So it will be around 100 people in Vegas, I'm sure," Page said before adding the motto of the seminar is "Inspiration Meets Perspiration."
"It's a whole different level of confidence and it changes people's lives. Did you see the resurrection of Jake The Snake? That's a perfect example. Jake Roberts or Scott Hall turning their lives around When I'm doing my workshop, I'm trying to get people so inspired that they feel like they can run through a brick wall."
The name of the company is DDP Yoga, but Page has branded it DDPY as he wants to distance it from what people think of whenever they hear the word "yoga."
"I call it DDPY now and I'm branding it that way because I'm trying to get people to stop calling it just yoga, because it's not. It's yoga for people who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga. It will probably be like 70 percent guys while a yoga class is about 93 percent women," said Page who will take individual selfies and a group photo with everyone at his Double or Nothing seminar.
With the DDPY seminar taking place right across town from Double or Nothing, Page was asked if we could expect to see any AEW starts taking part in DDPY at the seminar.
"I don't know if you'll catch them, because it's the day of [Double or Nothing]. But a lot of the boys are doing it," revealed Page.
"I watched Raw last week and saw Ricochet, who's getting a monster push. He not only does my program, he came to the DDP Yoga Performance Center and worked out with me. He also brought the Viking [Raiders] and those guys have been doing it for the last five years. Lacey Evans has been doing my program for over two years and she's getting a hell of a push. There's like nine different guys that I saw on Raw [doing the program]. Drew McIntyre drove seven-and-a-half hours from Tampa to Atlanta to do two private workouts with me."
DDP will be appearing at Starrcast II and will be hosting a DDPY seminar the morning of Double or Nothing. For more info visit Starrcast.com.
DDP's full interview with Wrestling Inc was included in today's episode of our WINCLY podcast. It can be heard in the embedded player at the bottom of this post. In it DDP discusses his DDPY seminar the morning of Double or Nothing as part of Starrcast II, WWE's current creative product, how AEW may help WWE's ratings, Cody Rhodes transitioning into a promoter and more.
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Denying that you've never had Botox injections is like insisting you don't have on an ounce of makeup or have never dyed your hair. Who can forget Kylie Jenner's vehement disavowal of lip fillers and the Internet's hilarious, mocking response with the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge? In this age of people as young as 20 undergoing wrinkle injections, it's no secret that nearly everyone, not just celebrities, is doing it. With all the TMI being posted daily on social media, it's apparent we are living in an age of transparency (no pun intended.) At PAW we take a practical, honest approach to beauty, openly informing patients about which services we've tried and helping them set beauty budgets in accordance with their goals.
How many people are getting Botox?*
Neuromodulator injections like Botox or Dysport are up by 1% over 2014, with over 6.7 million people undergoing injections in 2015. Fillers are significantly gaining in popularity, especially among people aged 20-29 (thanks Kylie!)
Popular Opinion and Botox
A quick search on YouTube for "Before and After Botox" yields about 95,500 results as of October 2016. All of these women are openly filming themselves getting neuromodulators. The top video, from YouTuber Janet D'Olivera, shows her results each day after getting her injection (see below.)
What's the most telling about the video isn't just the video itself—it's the comments! Most people were worried about injections and are thinking of trying them after Janet's video, thanking her for being open about her procedure.
Good on you… I'll be trying it for the first time soon myself. Whatever makes us happy right. It's not hurting anyone. You look amazing.
You look so incredible!!!! The difference is amazing!! Congrats on getting it done. Who cares what anyone else thinks!! You do you and enjoy that smooth baby bum forehead!!!
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Another video, posted July 2015 by Melissa Autry, BOTOX Before and After Pictures!! Let's Tell The Truth People! has a frank, honest description written by Autry:
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10 - Shrews hunting under leaf litter
If you're out for a winter walk in the woods when the wind is calm and the sun bright - and if you listen carefully and quietly - you'll probably hear the soft rustling of nearby leaf litter. This is usually the only trace of shrew activity that most people ever experience.
Shrews are tiny, mouse-like animals whose short lives are lived completely in fast- forward. Of the 27 described species of shrew found in North America three of them call this corner of North America home. And while superficially resembling small mice these tiny mammals are classified as Insectivora, along with their brethren the moles and bats, and they live life at a frantic pace. Unlike most other mammals that can miss an occasional meal with no ill effects, a missed meal for a shrew means death. Their metabolic rate is so high that they're compelled to eat up to twice their weight in insects each day just to keep their metabolic fires stoked.
The insectivores are considered the most primitive of the placental mammals and shrews are considered the most primitive insectivores. When dinosaurs were blundering around the earth as lords of all they surveyed, shrews were down in the leaf litter doing what shrews have always done - looking for their next meal.
This constant quest for food has molded the shrew into a highly aggressive little terror of the insect world where they routinely attack and overpower insects larger than themselves. They're helped in this endeavor by being endowed - alone among our mammals - with venom produced by their salivary glands that is extremely toxic to invertebrate life. Of course this time of year, with adult insects on the scarce side, they're looking for worms and hibernating insects and their larva. But their quest is relentless and never ending so the odds of a quiet bystander catching their rustling of the leaves is very good. Keep your ears open.
Our three shrews
We have the Southeastern Shrew, Sorex longirostris, the Least Shrew, Cryptotis parva, and the
Shorttail Shrew, Blarina brevicauda
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