Silly birds! Great photo with this article
Drunk birds sober up in Environment Yukon holding tank - North - CBC News: "Birds in Yukon are getting tipsy on fermented berries, so Environment Yukon has set up an avian drunk tank where they can sober up safely."
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Monday, November 17, 2014
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Sunday, November 09, 2014
Cut a semi-circle in the middle of a piece of cardstock using a full circle die.
This YouTube video first shows how to use an embossing folder to emboss just an edge of a piece of cardstock.
Next, she shows one method of cutting a semi-circle in the center of a piece of cardstock using a full circle die.
This could easily be made into a semi-circle "window" by using a straight edge to slice out the bottom of the semi-circle.
Or, to create a place card that has a shape extending above the folded edge. To do that, you would just have to fold the cardstock along the line that would create the semi-circle above.
Using the same full circle die on a different piece of cardstock, you could then give the illusion that the circle is separate from and extending from the top of, your folded place card.
I'll have to do some of these in the future and take some pictures.
Zoo
Next, she shows one method of cutting a semi-circle in the center of a piece of cardstock using a full circle die.
This could easily be made into a semi-circle "window" by using a straight edge to slice out the bottom of the semi-circle.
Or, to create a place card that has a shape extending above the folded edge. To do that, you would just have to fold the cardstock along the line that would create the semi-circle above.
Using the same full circle die on a different piece of cardstock, you could then give the illusion that the circle is separate from and extending from the top of, your folded place card.
I'll have to do some of these in the future and take some pictures.
Zoo
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search
Today, 9-Nov-2014 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. My daughter was born in Dec. 1989 and has never known a world with the wall in it.
Her grandfather was a paratrooper at Normandy.
I wish she had grown up in a world without war at all.
You would think that after all these thousands of years we would know better.
Being born in the sixty's I guess I'm just naive in wishing for "live and let live."
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search: "Fall of the Berlin Wall"
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Her grandfather was a paratrooper at Normandy.
I wish she had grown up in a world without war at all.
You would think that after all these thousands of years we would know better.
Being born in the sixty's I guess I'm just naive in wishing for "live and let live."
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search: "Fall of the Berlin Wall"
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
I didn't know that the CBC was involved in the telephone talking clock or the Network Time Protocol!
I used the telephone talking clock at least once a week before the advent of the internet. Working in a round-the-clock shift worker household and with aviation's precision time-keeping, it was important to me that our household clocks reflected the "real time".
Then the internet replaced the phone calls to the NRC clock. I always was mildly curious about who ran the internet clock.
It's taken me years of retirement to let go of my obsession keeping all the clocks in this rural home "on time". I always expected our electricity to be somewhat less than perfect when we were living up north. I was surprised, though I don't know why, to discover rural electricity "down south" can be just as variable.
Last weekend when the fall time change happened I realized how lax I've become. The clocks from one end of the house were out by as much as 10 minutes from the other end! I can imagine what it will be like when Himself retires as well.
With no one at work and no one in school, with the "farm time" beating in weeks and months, I imagine our non-computer clocks will suffer even more from lack of attention.
At least there's always the CBC radio on in the background of the craft room. The hourly long dash keeping me at least peripherally aware of the passage of time.
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News: "The control room contains the systems used to disseminate official time to the public, including the telephone talking clock, the CBC daily time broadcasts, computer time clocks, and the internet servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP). (NRC)"
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I used the telephone talking clock at least once a week before the advent of the internet. Working in a round-the-clock shift worker household and with aviation's precision time-keeping, it was important to me that our household clocks reflected the "real time".
Then the internet replaced the phone calls to the NRC clock. I always was mildly curious about who ran the internet clock.
It's taken me years of retirement to let go of my obsession keeping all the clocks in this rural home "on time". I always expected our electricity to be somewhat less than perfect when we were living up north. I was surprised, though I don't know why, to discover rural electricity "down south" can be just as variable.
Last weekend when the fall time change happened I realized how lax I've become. The clocks from one end of the house were out by as much as 10 minutes from the other end! I can imagine what it will be like when Himself retires as well.
With no one at work and no one in school, with the "farm time" beating in weeks and months, I imagine our non-computer clocks will suffer even more from lack of attention.
At least there's always the CBC radio on in the background of the craft room. The hourly long dash keeping me at least peripherally aware of the passage of time.
'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News: "The control room contains the systems used to disseminate official time to the public, including the telephone talking clock, the CBC daily time broadcasts, computer time clocks, and the internet servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP). (NRC)"
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