Wendy the Chihuahua mix in Value Village

I think it was a Yorkie mix.

 

Space food stick memories

 

Image via General Mills

We had them in Grade 6, 1971 or1972, where we were following an educational TV show in our class - we were supposed to be on a space ship, made a wall out of cardboard to separate the class into two groups, and the educational part seemed to be record keeping - we had to keep track of who got what stick, and decode a message that told us that some of them might have been contaminated and we should isolate the ones that had eaten them. I've never used that particular skill in my later life.

They weren't particularly tasty, and they were marked with a square, triangle or circle on the foil wrapper for us to keep records of.

Stereotypical Canadian Scene

CSL Welland heading for Montreal. Canada Goose overhead. In St. Lawrence River.

 

Marc-Antoine Gagnier, author from Embrum, Ontario, and his series «Renarde-Woman»

Marc-Antoine Gagnier, author from Embrum, Ontario, and his series «Renarde-Woman». at École élémentaire publique Rose des Vents, Cornwall, Ontario

 

Woman's laugh made the show

Hash the 1, https://www.instagram.com/hash_the1/, 

had this woman in stiches.

I was sitting right behind her! April 17, 2026, 

420  Comedy Show, 

LoL Entertainment, MO Events Cornwall SD&G, 

17369 Cornwall Centre Rd, Cornwall, Ontario

Osprey in rain

 

Osprey in rain, Glen Walter, Ontario, (Pandion haliaetus), Balbuzard pêcheur

Wayne Gosselin Wood Carvings

The round bowl with cover will be his wife's urn. He said he made one for one woman who died holding it and her crucifix.

The Little Prince (from Saint-Exupéry's novel), carving in foreground. I told him I'd interviewed the Little Prince's brother. During the war, Saint-Exupéry visited the De Koninck family in Quebec City. Thomas De Koninck, who died earlier this year at the age of 91,  was thought to be the inspiration for the Little Prince character, and I interviewed his brother, Jean-Marie De Koninck (both brothers, like their father, were professors at Laval University), about Operation Red Nose, the program he developed for volunteers to drive home people who have drunk too much during the winter holidays. 

 

 He talked about Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, the wood carving capitol of Canada, which I didn't know about even though I'd lived in Quebec City. They said the numbers of wood carvers still at work there had declined in recent years. New word: Pruche is French for Hemlock (tree).