Scientists are predicting the Perseid Meteor Shower will be extra-spectacular this year, with up to double the usual number of meteors – up to 200 per hour! Arb and I are probably not going to get to see them: the forecast is for clouds and rain a good portion of the night. If any of […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Happy Gotcha-versairy, Shadow!
On May 15, 2012, Arb and I took possession of the house we now live in. Back in early April 2012, literally the same day we closed on the house, I started looking on Petfinder for a dog. We were going to have a fenced yard, and I had always wanted a dog. Arb grew up with […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fort McMurray Fires: Why cash donations are best
As the fire continues to rage around Fort McMurray, Alberta, it’s natural to want to help, and Albertans – and Canadians, and others around the world, are stepping up in a heart-opening outpouring of generosity. Over and over again, authorities have emphasized, the best thing you can do is donate to the Red Cross or […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: an Odd Intersection
When it comes to musical taste, I guess you could say Arb and I are a little… odd? We’ve shared our love of classical and choral music quite a bit, but then we also like the hard stuff. Here is a whole group of young people who seem to feel the same way: Viva Vox […]
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christmas Friday Musical Interlude – Silent Night (again)
Arb may not be such a fan of Silent Night, but it will always be special to me. In my church while I was growing up, we would end our Christmas Eve service by all getting out of the pews to stand in a huge circle around the sanctuary. We’d pass out candles, then turn out […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: And now for something completely different…
Us folks at DWR seem to be all full of Holiday sweetness and light and goodwill, this year. Just to reassure y’all that we haven’t gone totally soft, I’d like to share this video with you. It helped me earlier in the season, when I wasn’t ready for celebrating yet, and I needed an antidote […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Merry Seizuremas!
Sooooo… I happened to mention to Arb’s mom, that I’d like to go to Home Hardware to check out their Christmas lights because they always seem to have different ones from everybody else. Being an inveterate shopper, my mother in law was all over that idea! So off we went… and all their Christmas merch […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Classical(ish) Interlude: Beethoven’s 5th… for electric guitar
A love of Beethoven was one of the things Arb and I bonded over, early in our relationship. Going on a road trip in the mountains together, we brought along all nine symphonies, and the combination of gorgeous music, gorgeous scenery, and of course, plenty of New Relationship Energy, made for an almost transcendent experience. […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rats, Toilets, and Weiners: things you will wish you didn’t know
I went to Youtube looking for more versions of Wagner’s Stehe Still to listen to, but, as it does, Youtube presented me with a number of recommendations before I typed in my search. One thing led to another, and now I’m… more educated I guess? Just sharing my joy! Videos after the break because some people […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday Blanket Fort Shenanigans
Brief hissticuffs ensued (not photographed). Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, Cute, grey cat, White Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fun with Daylight Saving Time
I used to be indifferent to falling back. The extra hour of sleep on the one day is nice but whatever. The choice of driving to work in the dark, or driving home in the dark, isn’t that material to me, and once December comes, it’s in the dark both ways regardless of Daylight time […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude: for Paris, and Beirut, and Baghdad
(I’m writing this early in the week, for publication Friday. I’m dreading coming back and editing this list…) and Garissa, Kenya; Yola, Nigeria and all the places being terrorized by “our” side… Gustav Mahler wrote his song cycle Kindertotenlieder, Songs on the Death of Children, over a century ago, a setting of five (out of over […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Makeup is so much bullshit
I (almost) never wear makeup to work. A whole lot of it is that I simply can’t be arsed, but it’s also a specifically political decision: men don’t have to, so why should I. I recognize that, as a knowledge worker who’s valued for my brainz, I’m honestly privileged not to have to focus on my […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No Room at the Inn
Sham, 1 year oldRoszke/Horgos. In the very front, just alongside the border between Serbia and Hungary by the 4-meter-high iron gate, Sham is laying in his mother’s arms. Just a few decimeters behind them is the Europe they so desperately are trying to reach. Only one day before, the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Blowing up other countries, for dummies
Even before the terror attacks in Paris last week, the possibility of terrorists was the reason the Harper government gave for being so incredibly slow to accept Syrian refugees. When the news of the attacks broke Friday afternoon my time, it was literally minutes before I heard it in the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The War on Christmas (TM) 2015
It has come to the attention of credible journalists and serious Christian scholars, that Starbucks – owned by a JEW!!! – hates Baby Jesus, Christians, and Christmas, and has been trying to subvert and destroy Christian America(TM)’s sacred Christmas traditions, by gradually removing Christian imagery from its Holiday CHRISTmas red
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abominations in Clown Barf
Almost every knitter or crocheter’s taste in yarn goes through a similar evolution as their skill progresses. When you’re just starting, everything takes forever, so thick yarns seem like a good idea – yay, fewer stitches makes more fabric! And you buy yarn based on how pretty the ball looks, without
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday cooperation
It turns out V and Fiona are capable of cooperation, at least when it comes to trapping Mom. Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two headlines trending on my Facebook on the same day
This shit is all linked, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I have no words. Highway of Tears email deletion referred to RCMP by B.C. privacy watchdog Women, mainly Aboriginal, go missing, and government emails about it get not just deleted, but deliberately deleted from backups. Eight Quebec police officers suspended
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