The Re-Farmer

You can take the girl out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl.

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Another too-hot day, she's at it again, and saying good bye?

As expected, today broke 30C/86F. I don’t know what the humidex was. I was outside by 7am, watering the garden and it was starting to get too hot before I finished. It’s past 7:30pm now, and it’s just barely starting to dip below 30C/86F now. I do have to chuckle a bit about when I do the outside cat feeding these days, both morning and evening now. There are at lest 4 little skunks that come…

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BC’s Odious Premier

And the ravenous claims of 200 BC Indian bands

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Record Number of People Are Fleeing Canada as the Country Slowly Falls Apart

Highest emigration on record reveals a country crippled by woke policies, economic stagnation, and self-inflicted wounds.

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Our 2026 Garden: first tomato, peppers, some cuteness and the status of things

Well, I’m glad I didn’t head to the city today for our second stock up shop. That will definitely wait until after the long weekend. Not only will I not have to deal with holiday crowds, but Tuesday is supposed to finally be cooler again. I had an early start to the day, not by choice. It wasn’t pain that woke me up – it was cats going nuts! – though I did immediately get a headache. I don’t…

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Morning harvest, didn't make it, and I think I'm addicted

So, today didn’t happen as planned, but it sort of happened as expected. For all that I felt so well yesterday, I had a mostly sleepless night. I finally just got up, fed the outside cats, and did my morning routine. I made sure to bring a container along, as the bush beans had not been harvested yesterday, so I knew there would be plenty to pick, today. View this post on Instagram I pretty…

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First stock up shop: This is what $253 looks like

$253.11, to be exact, but the total stock up shop was more. I just didn’t get a picture of the rest. After my doctor’s appointment was done, I needed to have lunch somewhere. I decided to go to a Subway near the Walmart, which decided the order of the rest of the shopping. I got a 12″ teriyaki chicken sub and a bottled flavoured water to drink, which came to $20.81 The next place I remembered…

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A Garden Friend, and an update

I have been out for much of the day, between my medical appointment and the stock up shopping. The stock up shopping will get its own post, later. This morning, I did the outside cat feeding and my morning rounds, as usual. Gouda was missing this morning. I do hope I see him when I go out later to water the garden! I didn’t water this morning, but I did check everything out. While adjusting…

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Our 2026 Garden: July garden tour video

So… I ended up not going anywhere today, which would normally be our first trip to the city for stock up shopping. View this post on Instagram I took the above screen cap well before we were to reach the hottest part of the day, which was around 3 -5pm. As I write this, we’ve finally started to cool down. While the high was around 32C/90F, the humidex reached heights of 38C/100F I decided to…

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Harvest, Hodge Podge and Health

Today had definitely turned out to be a hot one. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter. It should also be our first stock up shopping trip to the city, so I’ll want to head out quite early, before things get too hot. Knowing the heat was coming, I made sure to water the garden this morning, though I’ll have to ask the girls to do it tonight. I was able to get a nice harvest this morning! I…

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Frustrating, but that's good? Maybe?

Today was a rather long day. Thankfully, my daughter was with me to do most of the driving and help me get around. I had started my fast last night, and we were planning to leave early for my CT scan appointment. We ended up leaving even earlier than originally planned, which turned out to be a good thing. The drive to the hospital itself is just under an hour, normally, because it’s right at…

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Our 2026 Garden: pretty things

I spent very little time in the garden today, but did want to share these, from when I did the evening watering. First, the Arikara squash is looking fantastic! View this post on Instagram There are a couple of female flowers that have gotten quite large. No male flowers are as large, but there are enough that they might actually bloom at the same time and pollinate. The vines are getting big…

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Home for now, plus a harvest

So… today actually started out pretty good. We were getting predictions of rain and thunderstorms. At one point, my weather app told me it was raining right that moment. It wasn’t. So I went out to water the garden in the morning. In the process, I gathered what I would call our first real harvest of the year, with everything weeks behind. View this post on Instagram I picked a few of the…

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Well, now...

So… I’m at the ER right now.  This time, for myself.  Current status is waiting for a requisition for a CT scan, either today or tomorrow. Great fun… The Re-Farmer

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A good, yet disappointing, day

Today was market day, and the original plan was to be there for the usual 10-3, then stay for the 4-8 special event. In the wee hours, I got a response from the rescue mentioning that we were the only ones talking about being there for the 10-3 part, and that they were closing to tours from 2-4 to prepare for the event. So I decided we’d skip the first time slot and just be there for the…

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An actual productive day!

This morning, my daughter and I headed out for errands. Too early, it turned out. I had a package waiting at the post office, but while the general store it’s in opens at 9, the post office itself turns out to open at 9:30. I could have sworn they opened earlier! My daughter had dashed in and did get the mail, but left the parcel card for on the way home. When we got to town, my daughter was a…

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Sometimes you just have to write what you know and document what you’ve seen, heard, and metabolized to remind yourself that, no, you haven’t gone crazy. Perhaps by spelling it all out …