Monthly Archives: October 2021

Sparrows clear a space

below suet in fall.

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Halloween Costumes 2021

Calculator man With rock book Rock book opened to inside

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Rick Nelson Advice Long-Adopted

“You see you can’t please everyoneSo you got to please yourself.”–“Garden Party” For myself, as long ago as 1990, when I’d hit a wall from sacrificing and putting myself out there too much for the pleasure and approval of others. … Continue reading

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My Last Trick-or-Treat

About 1961 in grade 6, my friend Bob Hutchinson and I decided to take a chance and go trick-or-treating, although most of our classmates had stopped the practice, being ‘too old’. I went to one house on a ‘higher-up’ street … Continue reading

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Halloween Neareth

(The Great Pumpkin revisited) (decorated crème de menthe pie; the 1 1/2 oz. version)

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AB diploma exams worth

100% in 190550% in 197630% in 201510% in 2021.The point of diploma exams today? Exams were worth 100% in MB in 1967 when I graduated and the same here in my first 4 years of teaching. Grossly unfair, limited, and … Continue reading

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Best Halloween Movies: A Personal Choice

1. The Ultimate Scary Kids Movie: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) 2. Ultimate Ghost Stories: The Innocents (1961)–Truman Capote-adapted version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting (1964)–based … Continue reading

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“I am large…I contain multitudes.”

–Walt Whitman See examples thereof by searching the following titles on this website: The Main Historical Events of My Life 70 Years: A Self-Portrait My Special Friends: A Short Select History Thereof Rick Davies, Winnipeg, SHCI: After 1967 AD To … Continue reading

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Thank God we don’t have to start more winter days in pitch darkness.

Albertan’s chose to stay with the current system by less than 1%. Calgary and Edmonton area carried the day.Fewer problems for the sports teams and many others this way.Personally, I don’t like the amount of winter darkness we currently wake … Continue reading

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A Stupid CBC Headline

you would not have seen 10 years ago: What’s on Queen Elizabeth’s mind?

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