Groceries, snow squalls, and renovating a condominium suite (FOR YOU?!).
Author: NapsWithCats-ScubaMan
March 2025 Update: our 10Ha [~24.9 Acre] rock farm is online. No services available at the site (yet). BLACK DOG BISCUITS are AVAILABLE. Gilles Lake, Miller Lake, N0H 1Z0.
Moscow. Berlin. Tokyo. Rome.
Daily writing promptWhat cities do you want to visit?View all responses If I could blink in-and-out of the downtown core, it would be Moscow's Hermitage gallery.... Berlin's Brandenburg Gate... Tokyo's royal palace grounds... and Rome's Vatican City. Otherwise, I'm uninterested in large metropolises. I've already spent time in Toronto, Chicago, New York City, London (UK), … Continue reading Moscow. Berlin. Tokyo. Rome.
Close to 20 years in front of a classroom? Yep.
Daily writing promptHave you ever performed on stage or given a speech?View all responses I know this isn't exactly the same as stage acting. Or addressing a crowd of >100 peers. The closest I had was talking in front of the school-work staff... and that was about 80 different peers. Most were politely listening to … Continue reading Close to 20 years in front of a classroom? Yep.
Early retirement, moving to Lion’s Head, watching our forever-home being built!
Homes in the bush, stepping away from full-time pedagogy.
Tinkering. Frankensteining. Vertical Dozing. Doodling. Outlining.
Daily writing promptShare five things you're good at.View all responses
My anxiety. My temper.
Daily writing promptWhat is one thing you would change about yourself?View all responses I understand the question asked me to muse about "one thing", however, my teacher-brain didn't want to hypenate anxiety-temper-WTF-is-going-on mood. It is one of the reasons I've taken to the meditation program offered by Headspace. Does it make me feel better? Not … Continue reading My anxiety. My temper.
I’d like to be crepuscular.
Daily writing promptAre you more of a night or morning person?View all responses Crepuscular?! Yep. I like being most active at dawn and dusk {{Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Crepuscular. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved December 2, 2023, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crepuscular }}. My favourite examples: walleye, pickerel, wild turkey, coyote, deer, ruffed grouse.
Meat is murder. Delicious, delicous murder!
What food can I not give up?
If I **must** wear clothes, then it’s boots. Waterproof & insulated snowboots!
**Must**...?! Let me explain. When the Georgian Bay is warm enough, I enjoy doning neoprene and hopping into Five Fathoms Marine Park. Now that I have more time, I can resume this passion using Diver's Den as my preferred charter. That, and go fishing. I'm enjoying my first night at my new home (while we … Continue reading If I **must** wear clothes, then it’s boots. Waterproof & insulated snowboots!
Oh hell no!
Instincts can save one’s life.
Toronto Island!
I like to signal boost.
Oh, that’s easy! LDCC Science 9.
https://midimike.com/2023/11/10/a-favorite-subject-in-school/ Let me back up. I hated high school so much, I eventually became a science standup philosopher. Translation: despite me best efforts to avoid the family tradition, I became a school teacher. Where my dad restricted his experience to elementary school (middle-school aged, 12-14 year olds), I went full ballstothewall high school. 14 to … Continue reading Oh, that’s easy! LDCC Science 9.
In 3 years, I’m going to be mucking around on the farm!
https://philosophyvia.photos/2023/11/10/what-will-your-life-be-like-in-three-years/ {{{I am speaking for myself. TS has her own unique take on the world, and I respect her for that}}}. In 3 years, I will be 55 years old and undoubtably marveling at the cliche bantered around in the 1990's marketing campaign (by some insurance company)... "freedom 55". I made it, despite the challenges … Continue reading In 3 years, I’m going to be mucking around on the farm!
Companionship and portability!
What is good about having a pet? When I’ve had enough of our house-panthers, I can scoop them up and toss them into a room. I do that to a human child, I get arrested. My niece & nephew are old enough to avoid this fate (when they eventually visit our farm). And companionship. The … Continue reading Companionship and portability!
Podcasts, yes!
I enjoy audio, without tormenting my spouse.
My favourite websites, in semi-order…
Wikipedia, of course. I treat it like the worldwide edition of People Magazine + TMZ + Encyclopedia Galactica 🙂 . I like knowing that I can never view all the pages in my lifetime. For fun, TS will ask me how I got from Point Aye to Bee... and I show her! Wikivoyage. Ibid. I … Continue reading My favourite websites, in semi-order…
Historians will be puzzled by 1970-onward
History is unreliable.
We are on the move!
Middle-aged cats grinding away. Homesteading workout, no?
Sitting on the ball of doom and the homesteader regime!
What is your favorite form of physical exercise? I find myself falling asleep on inflated exercise balls... and TS finds that mildly amazed that I can do it (for hours?!). When I am feeling like a nogoodnik, I grab Io (1 of our housepanthers) and corporally cuddle her. That cat looks resigned to her fate. … Continue reading Sitting on the ball of doom and the homesteader regime!
Misbehaving Jetpack?!
https://blackdogbiscuits.ca/2023/10/28/i-would-howl-at-the-moon-then-im-good-to-go/ I’ve been posting all morning… and the service isn’t updating it. Le sigh.
BCB&B, neemtree, bdb, and blog 