That’s the only way I can describe our weekend.  Perfect.From the weather. To the activities. To the company.  It was 3 perfect days and I am grateful.In the past, Victoria Day weekend is dreadful for us. Dreadful for Cuyler because…

A hot Victoria Day weekend saw a whole lot of seedlings out there in the yard. Carrots and onions were joined by beets, collards, lettuce and bok choi sticking their heads up. Squash has been joined by zucchini and musk melon. I should rip up more lawn…

By Li-mei Hoang, Reuters Television audiences watching the weather forecast in Scotland received an unexpected surprise on Thursday as Britain’s Prince Charles delivered the local weather report for the region. Dressed in a dark suit, blue shirt and striped tie, Charles looked the consummate professional as he gestured towards the map behind him, describing the [...]

So, I want you to take a good hard look at this weather report for the next couple of days and say it with  me….YUCK!  I know, I know, Canadians love to talk about the weather and it’s super annoying. But whatever! It’s gro…

Dear readers; As a lot of you may know, I don’t like David Suzuki very much. David Suzuki is an opportunist of the worst kind, who will play the ecology, environment thing for all it’s worth! BUT! That doesn’t mean he is wrong. Once in a while he will hit the nail right on the [...]

© 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. If you were in the Lower Mainland tonight, chances are you caught the amazing fiery sunset that streaked through the clouds above. However according to my friend Duane Storey, we could be [...]

People waking up in parts of Ontario and Quebec Monday morning might want to stay in bed when they look outside and see snow — yes, snow — on the ground. Photograph by: Pat McGrath , Ottawa Citizen Dear Readers; Since your shivering reporter doesn’t like winter, this year was almost as good as being [...]

The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March…

Nora points at a display in the biology section of the Royal Ontario Museum during our visit on March Break.

It’s a bit busy here, so it’ll be a short post today. My mother-in-law Rosemarie is here, and the kids are really, really excite…

350.org has a new campaign to bring home the reality of climate change to people in North America. They are asking people to “connect the dots ” on 5/5/12 by protesting, educating, documenting and volunteering along with thousands of people…

Hot. +22C after supper. Redwing blackbirds. Crocuses are up. It’s not even that muddy. With any luck we’ll get back to wet, cold and dreary soon. Normal would be nice. What’s normal? Not Ottawa. Who questions that a revival of Grit fortunes is the real…

Normally, I wouldn’t talk about snow. Previous experience would indicate that, in Ontario at least, this would be tempting fate. For as long as I can remember, this province hasn’t had much of a spring. Quite often, winter would linger, s…

… seriously. 26 degrees in MARCH??? Look, I know that I go on and on about the weather – I am a Canadian, after all – but is this not just a wee bit strange? Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario

…Going down in the Valley… Weird for March… – Syndicated from http://trashysworld.ca

Cash was truly great. I hadn’t heard this song until Tuesday, but it even has caragana bush mentioned in it. Not sure why someone would bed down in it though, it’s really prickly if not the mature branches that would provide little shelter….

I’ve written in the past about Cuyler’s issues with weather.Each spring I am always hopeful that this will be the year he overcomes the fear that the rainy weather brings with it. I know it will happen. I just don’t know…

March Break this week. Spring the next. Warm weather straight through as far as I can tell from here on out. Seeds have arrived from Stokes and checking to see if I can get 25 wine grape vines. Plonk de backyard. Why have a backyard urban chicken coop …

Dear Readers; As Solar storms go, this last one came and went, and not much happened. Good thing too, if we got hit with a big one, Armageddon could be as simple as a year or two without electricity! ———————————————————– Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News As solar storms go, the two March 6 [...]

… that’s an almost 30 degree swing in the temperature in one day… For Americans, that’s about a 53 F swing! Whatta country! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario – Syndicated from http://trashysworld.ca

A massive collection of new studies about Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, describe the frigid mini-world in unprecedented detail.