Stacking wood, I had helpers!

Mostly moral support, but what can a woman do?
First job was to clear out the shed. As I went in, I spotted a snake. This was Friday afternoon.



The truck arrived!

Willows Farm in Balderson

Here is where the moral support comes in... Daisy. She was napping in the goldenrod. Then, very cat-like, parked herself right in my path.


Buster came by, but he was only passing through.

Then I had to stop and take a photo of a plane, then grab a drink of water.

Dorah was watching from the house. She was no help at all!
There was a dock spider supervising, too.

Saturday morning it was still there.
The wood fairy didn't help out at all!

No one worked on it during the night.
I began around 9 a.m., NO helpers until hubby began to help, having done his dishes.

 Saturday Morning

Be careful with your back, JB.
He was loading up the garage.

Things had to slow down, as I realized the wagon tires were flat. Nothing is ever straightforward, is it? Then I had to move the old wood to the back of the house to make room for the new wood in the shed.

Time out, while I had to pump out the tires in the trailer.

Hubby was helping by putting some old wood in the garage. He also went out and killed a caesar wrap for me for lunch, as well as scoring some boxes in town (for the debris that will be our kindling). Then he had to go back in to buy some groceries for his special diet.

I soldiered on!

I stopped for a moment to check out the Eastern Comma that morphed. More on that later. I'd been trying to film a Question mark, but accidentally deleted the video when I thought it hadn't emerged. I was pretty tired, I suppose.

Last week, an Eastern Comma broke free.
They are ubiquitous on my Hops.

 I stopped for lunch to watch the US Open Tennis, with Milos Raonic vs. Burgos (who played rather well!). We have two Canadians in it this year. Raonic and Bouchard. Both hard-working young people. 

We were watching for my cyberfriends, who were at the match!
Did you think I spotted them - it's a fuzzy shot from the TV?
This is his selfie. I love their t-shirts!

@SocialKeenan and wife Julie

This has to be Keenan trying for phone service!
He has lots of friends wanting selfies
for vicarious thrills!

Lots of photos of Raonic floating about.

Thank goodness, Raonic won. He didn't play his best, but he did win. @ITVTennis, they were showing it in TSN 5, were pretty harsh making fun of Milos' hair, several times. Really.

Back to work after the match, I found more friends. There was a honeybee right in the doorway, with a home in one of the mice tunnels. It went in, I covered up the hole, not wanting to be stung. I unburied it when I covered up the wood for the rain.

I'm about 3/4 done, but we had 20mm rain last night, and more this morning. I had to put away the boxes of kindling in the shed. I had a feeling... We shall see if I go out. I'm pretty achy!

Beware the Ides of March!

A wonderful story has been developing out there in social media land. Could it be March fever?
Keenan Wellar, a mover and shaker in the Volunteer Ottawa World (CEO & Co-Founder at LiveWorkPlay), also a tweeter, but NOT a blogger! (No, after the big rant, he tweets and is on FaceBook, but doesn't blog!) He's very busy working with his volunteer group. Me, I just post picture for those disinterested in the rabble rousing around Ottawa! This was sunset yesterday after the storm.

He was criticized by a paid journalist for an error, which then led to a rant, by a P.O.d Ken Gray, Ottawa Citizen journalist.
Gray (the journalist) thought that Wellar, avid twitter fan, ought to refrain from blogging. Do you see the error of his ways, yet?
Me either. I have favourite blogs. I have favourite tweets, by friends and family. I do not confuse the two. And I'm just a humble blogger. All this led to a good discussion between Wellar and Gray (the journalist), a shutdown of discourse by the latter, and then a rant by Ken Gray. KenGrayOttawa, not THE journalist, has entered the fray and is having a grand time.
The words are flying!!!
The self-appointed Minister of Truth followed up that post with "Blogging and the law: let the bloggers beware," in which he asserts that bloggers (and tweeters) shouldn't be trusted because they don't always get their facts right.

"This all resulted in Ken getting horribly but politely pawned"

Ken Gray and his sort-of-blog  The Bulldog took a wicked thumping last week , writes the OTHER KenGrayOttawa. Rumour is that the 'Guest posts' on The BULLDOG blog (AKA Citizen blog)  is a chance to appease writers. Yet, as KenGrayOttawa writes, why should they guest post Jim Watson? A politician?

My response:
I do not believe that a journalist ought to be blogging! We expect a higher level of writing by a journalist. We expect facts, unless, of course the word 'column' is beside their name. Then they are free to rant about issues under the guise of 'editorial'.

We know that journalists NEED editors to keep them under control. Bloggers and twitter fans we know to read with tongue-in-cheek, as they are supposed to use sarcasm and wit. (Both sides use puns, but that is another discourse!)

Here is the NOT Ken Gray Journalist:

KenGrayOttawa Ken Grey 

@KenGray thanks for promotinghttp://kengrayottawacitizen.wordpress.com/ but you should know http://bit.ly/gWSy9A beat me to it! #ottnews

And RealGrouchy has a go at him, too! Look at the great photo of Ken Gray on his site.

Ken Gray wants you to stop blogging

posted by RealGrouchy at Tales from a Grouch