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A facebook post of an old friend...posted by her husband http://familiesfirst.funeraltechweb.com/tribute/details/8614/Kristin__Cada/obituary.html Wow. Just...wow. Rest in peace Kris.

So on Saturday, my mother while petting her cat found this big pus and goop filled thing on his neck. My sister and I both said it sounded like an abcess and to get him to the vet ASAP (we lost a cat to an abcess back in the late 1970s and they are still tricky to treat). Topaz is *totally* my mother's cat. He likes the rest of the family just fine but keeps his real love for my mother (quite literally, he developed a very embarassing habit a few years ago involving her forearm.... Being a nurse, she washed her hands and got clean tissues and decided to compress the thing. She removed all the grossness, but knew if it was an abcess it would just fill again. So off she went to the vet with her poor baby. They examined him and he was very cooperative, and the vet said, well I think you took care of the problem already, but we'll just check. It turned out....IT WAS A FLY LARVAE WORKING IT'S WAY OUT!!!!! :yucky: :yikes: So they cleaned it, gave him his shots (which she has neglected) and off he went home with his human. She was very relieved. So were we but we were also very grossed out....and I had made clam linguini for supper.... :yucky:

I would say when what not to wear came on.....but the show came on because ppl do not know how to dress.....and that show initally frustrated me cause they never had fluffies on it. Just size 2s.

In 2001 my gramma (1906-2009) gave all of the grandkids and great grandkids a copy of her self published autobiography. I have brought mine to work, and on occasion used it in therapy (unusually, I have to also see adult inpts, usually neurological pts). It's more interesting to a rural client then the commerical materials. Most of those are very urban, and very American. Not so good for Canadian farmers! Gramma's book is much better. I've used it for all kinds of types of therapy, right now I am using it as a start for supported conversation. The client is loving it, and wants a copy (so I am photocopying it bit by bit) and was actually born in the town Gramma spent much of her childhood and adult life in. Today the client not only greeted me BY NAME, but stopped reading and asked me...did your Gramma know So and So? (a person not mentioned in the book). I said yes, she had. Next question...was she one of the ones who went on that big canoe trip So and So organized for all the oldtimers? Again...not in the book. But yes, I remember her telling me about a big canoe trip. And the conversation went from there. Still very difficult for the client, severe anomia, but still not giving up! Her ashes have re-arranged themselves into a big grin, I just know it.

Many moons ago, when I was in grad school (again) we were graded on how we dressed for clinic. My classmates sometimes had difficulty understanding the difference between Going to a Club and Going to Work wear. I was sitting in a Ph.D student buddy's office, we were shooting the kaka. When one of my classmates walked by in 4 inch peekaboo shoes (we had a terribly rude name for such shoes) and a skin tight, low cut bright green mini dress. Now granted...she had the bod to wear such a get up. BUT...at Clinic???? Once my friend had put his eyeballs back in place, he asked me didn't So and So have assessment clinic that afternoon. I said, yeah she is on the Adult rotation, I think the assessment is a fluency client. A guy fluency client. My friend bust out laughing and said, well if the poor guy didn't stutter before he will now! She was sent home to change.

In the skating world, we have PHD....Panties Hanging Down. Most visable now with the contortions the girls are doing. As a young skater I was 115 lbs at 5'7....that is an XL skating dress. I went up to 125 one summer behaving like a normal teenager. My dresses no longer fit. I lost the weight. And ppl wonder why we have body images issues, I look in the mirror and see fat cow. Oh and experienced skaters go......* ahem* sans certian garments. Thats what tights are for....

There were some really nice dresses on that site too. Alas...American.

But at least they are trying. As I have said before, I am tired of being dressed by Omar the Tentmaker. Princess seams, Empire waists, A lines and solid colours do it for me. Although if the cut is right I can rock a pencil skirt...

We need to get this line in Canada and the US! http://www.stylelist.ca/2014/09/18/evans-collective-plus-size-fashion-show/ About bloody time

Most of the tenants will now be housed at Parkland Crossing. A former residential school, then evangelical Christian boarding school and bible college. (Western Christian College), it was bought by another local evangelical church when the church of Christ pulled both their church and the school out of town Parkland Crossing now is mixed use. The former teacher apartments are now fairly low rent apartments. With the dorms. 2 floors are for students at Assiniboine Community College, and 2 floors are for low income. Local organizations use the classrooms for meetings, and the gym can be rented for parties. Parkland Crossing agreed to house most of the tenants. The complex is drug/alcohol free and they do enforce it (my niece complained bitterly about the No Boys rule) And it seems the kitty did not belong to the Crazy Cat Lady. She grabbed her cat when she ran. However, that kitty still has a happy ending: http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.2016078

Yes. A tenant. :teary:

Yesterday, a local residential hotel burned. Arson. It was an old, old building, and the rooms were very small. The 26 residents lived there because they had no other options. Most have addiction and mental health issues. One of the tenants was an animal hoarder. While most of her cats had been re-homed she was allowed to keep one. All of the people got out safe, and the local fire dept. opted to pull the building down right away, rather then risk it collapsing...and look what happened http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cat-escapes-from-burning-collapsing-manitoba-hotel-1.2771093 ps the good members of the fire dept here and in Gilbert Plains (called in to help) are all volunteer.

When my Gran was still alive, and still fairly with it, I used to take her to spend a week or so with me, first when I was in Belcourt ND, and later when I moved back to Canada and came here to Dauphin. I had to stop having her for visits (she lived with my parents until she was 100) when the vascular dementia got to where I could no longer trust her to remember she could NOT plug in the kettle, toaster and microwave all at the same time. She blew the fuses tyring to make toast tea and instant oatmeal. And so the fridge and freezer would be without power all day, as she was too embarassed to ask for help from the neighbours....

Mine is a funkins. Good thing I used a knife.

I used ordinary steak knives. Again, I did not do anything complex. just whacked the top off and stuck silk mums inside. It was tough cutting, but it was also the first year they had come out....so say 10 yrs ago now?

Ah. but as a highly skilled builder, I bet you have the tools to carve easily! I had only kitchen knives....

They are also avaliable at Michaels. The carving process is more difficult, as I recall, but what i did with mine was just cut the top and use it as a fall floral arrangement.

It's even harder to lose a furbaby when it's long distance. (at least that was my experience) {{{}}}

This is similar to the recipe I use (and you can add cinnamon or whatever moves you) http://www.bernardin.ca/pages/recipe_page/51.php?pid=341 Enjoy!

We set a record last night...it went slightly below zero. It was only +1 when I got up. I needed gloves and a jacket!

No no...make peach BUTTER!!!!! It tastes more...well....peachy....then jam!

I have also made maple apple butter and caramel apple tter. Most fruit can made in to a butter. The secret is long slow cooking.

If we do...My deepest sympathy!!!! https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/albertans-tweet-out-pics-of-late-summer-snowfall-in-province-s-north-185807662.html

It seems to be an art that is reviving, as more of us are more concerned about what is in the food we eat. I learnt watching my mother, and I first made chokecherry jelly at age 17 (it turned into bad wine, lol chalk it up to youth). For my grandma and my mother as a child, preserving food was a must in rural SK. For me, its enjoyable and quite frankly, I make better jam then I can buy. Since it is only me, I do small batches. I have 4 jars of peach butter, 4 cups of apple cider, 5 jars of apple butter, 2 jars of apple sauce, apples cut up for crisps and frozen, 6 blanched and frozen ears of corn, 5 bags of saskatoon berries (they are like blueberries only better, and the city is named after the berry, not the other way around) 5 jars of dilled green cherry tomatoes, 5 jars of cherries in syrup and next week I hope to make my salsa and tomato sauce. The cider experiment will most likely not be repeated, but it was worth a try!

We have had a beautiful weekend, 22 yesterday and supposed to be 25 today. Tomorrow, not so much and then the rest of the week goes into the toilet. ZERO. Our low Wed/Thur/Friday night are predicted to be ZERO. ALREADY. We usually don't go that low until the 3rd or 4th week of Sept.