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Category Archives: Sage Hill
The end of the prairie
Sunday’s treat was a trip to Mr Spudd’s Snack Shack, which was busy even before and even after we taxed the kitchen’s assembly skills with our multiple orders for veggie burgers, smokies, monster burgers and the like. A surprising number … Continue reading
Some talk about reading, and an evening walk in the valley
Some interesting discussion yesterday about the different ways of reading: for academic purpose vs for writing. Erin and John talked about their ways of preparing during the writing of a poetry project, reading widely and employing techniques of serendipity, or … Continue reading
News in the news, and devilish fun with translation
In the self-serving-don’t-mess-with-my-lifestyle department, a recent Pew poll says that over half of Americans surveyed don’t feel humans are responsible for global warming. In the interesting angle department, Raj Patel draws some interesting conclusions from a recent Lancet article and … Continue reading
Still crawling
This feels like about my fourth springtime this year; where I am today, the Qu’Appelle Valley is starting to green. Last night being chef’s night off, we went to Regina, to the Mediterranean Bistro where the 4-cheese tortellini looked somewhat … Continue reading
Bugged
Tuesday it was bees: we had a most thrilling hive inspection as our last field trip. We got to see some varroa mites, how to check for the tell-tale odour of foulbrood, what a hive about to swarm looks like, … Continue reading