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Alarm Clock
blasted thing rings when I am trying to sleep

Once there was an ocean rock formation on the South coast of Australia, called The Twelve Apostles, then one day, it couldn't be called twelve anythings.

A 2007 study found that the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that the average Australian drinks 22 gallons of beer a year.
That means the average Australian gets about 41 miles per gallon.
Bloody good value that!

With apologies to the author (whomsoever they may be), the email that included this did not attribute it, the emailer is not the author, merely forwarded it to the person in their region identified as 'the Australian', this is a very small town. —No copyright is known. —No copyright is claimed.

Australia

Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognisable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what at first looks like an enormous bite taken out of its southern edge; a wall of sheer cliffs which plunge deep into the girting sea. Geologists assure us that this is simply an accident of geomorphology and plate tectonics, but they still call it the "Great Australian Bight" proving that not only are they covering up a more frightening theory, but they can't spell either.

The first of the confusing things about Australia is the status of the place.
Where other land masses and sovereign lands are classified as either continent, island, or country, Australia is considered all three.
Typically, it is unique in this.

The second confusing thing about Australia are the animals.
They can be divided into three categories: Poisonous, Odd, and sheep♡.

It is True that of the ten most dangerous snakes, Australia has eleven of them.
Important distinction, the Inland Taipan is counted twice.
The author does not wish to find out what happens if this aggressive, insanely venomous, killing machine, feels slighted.
Despite their aggression, toxicity, and camouflage, there are curiously few snakes seen,
The common assumption is the spiders have killed them all.

It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them.
It would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them.
But even the spiders won't go near the sea.

The sea is filled with ordinary terrors, sharks, and with extraordinary terrors not found elsewhere,
blue-ring octopus, beautiful colours, kill you
more kinds of jellyfish than can easily be enunciuated, from
box jellyfish, with 30 feet or more of tentacles that kill, to
Irukandji, 1cm long, that make up for diminutive size by killing even faster
Stonefish, that look like a rock and kill you when you step on them
Cone shells, they make beautiful necklaces from after they are dead, but that kill you if you pick them up
staying alive means staying away from the ocean.

Back on land

Be careful to check inside boots (before putting them on) under toilet seats (before sitting down) and generally everywhere else.
A stick is very useful for this task.
when reaching for a stick, take care because,

Trees, have developed extaordinary amounts of venom just to avoid being left off the toxicity list.
Gympie Gympie a widespread shrub is described as "like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”, after the first sting, an allergy universally develops and the second sting, may be fatal.
Unfortunately the second sting may be received when violently retching and spasming away from the first sting

Strangely, it is the second class of animals (the Odd) that are more dangerous. The creature that kills the most people each year is the common Wombat.

wombats

Wombats are large, nocturnal, herbivorous, burrowing marsupials
- How large? Adult male common wombats are 1 to 1.3 metres (3.3 to 4.3 feet) long, and can weigh up to 40 kg (88 lbs), females slightly smaller in size and weight.
Wombats are native to Australia
Wombats are considered the closest relative to the (much more famous) Koala
Three species –
- The Common Wombat (Vombatus Ursinus)
- The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
- The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii)
  - The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat is critically endangered, being found in only one place in Australia – Epping State Forest in Queensland
Wombats are solidly built with squat, round, bear-like bodies, a large strong skull and a short stumpy tail
Wombats have small eyes and ears, but a very large, prominent nose
Wombat species, some have hairless noses; others’ noses are covered in hair
Wombats have short legs ending in large paws with five toes and strong, blade-like claws
Wombat hind paws contain four claws with the fifth toe looking like a small, clawless thumb
Wombat fur is coarse, with an even colour ranging from black, dark grey, silver grey, chocolate brown, grey-brown to cream
The wombat is one of the strongest burrowing animals in the world
Wombat is the faunal emblem of South Australia
Wombats pose great danger for motorists at night; a barrel of muscle with a low centre of gravity, they can act as a launching-ramp that sends the car skywards and off the road
Wombat poo is cubic
- Wombats like depositing their poo on rocks, tree stumps and anything that will help them define their territory
- The cubic nature of wombat poo was welcomed by bush folk in the nineteenth century – they sensibly wrote numbers on all six sides and used them as dice
During the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the wildly popular unofficial mascot for Australia was Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat (a.k.a. The Battler’s Prince); this mortified Olympic officials whose sanitised versions of cute koalas, platypuses and echidnas were not as readily accepted by the larrikin spirit of Australia

The wombat is nearly as ridiculous as its name, and spends its life digging holes in the ground, in which it hides. During the night it comes out to eat.

The wombat kills people in two ways:

First, the animal is indestructible. Digging holes in the hard Australian clay builds muscles that outclass Olympic weightlifters. At night, they often wander the roads. Multiple trailer-ed trucks (road trains) roadtrain have hit them at high speed, with all 41 wheels on one side, and this merely makes them very annoyed. They express this by snorting, glaring, and walking away.
To smaller cars, the wombat becomes an asymmetrical high-speed launch pad ⛍ with results that can be imagined ⛐ but not adequately described. It should be noted that wombat warning road signs may be surrounded by damaged or destroyed vehicles, but never by damaged or destroyed wombats

The second way the wombat kills people relates to its burrowing behaviour. If a person happens to put their hand down a Wombat hole, the Wombat will feel the disturbance and think "Ho! My hole is collapsing!" at which it will brace its muscled legs and push up against the roof of its burrow with incredible force, to prevent its collapse. Any unfortunate hand will be crushed, and attempts to withdraw will cause the Wombat to simply bear down harder. The unfortunate will then bleed to death through their crushed hand as the wombat prevents him from seeking assistance.
This is considered the third most embarrassing way to die, and Australians don't talk about it much.

At this point, we would like to mention the Platypus, estranged relative of the mammal, which has a duck-bill, beaver tail, webbed feet, lays eggs, gives milk, detects its aquatic prey in the same way as the electric eel, and has venomous barbs attached to its hind legs, thus combining all 'typical' Australian attributes into a single improbable creature.

The last confusing thing about Australia is the inhabitants. First, a short history:

Some time around 40,000 years ago, people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and lot of them died.
The ones that survived learned respect for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and spiders. They settled in, and spent a lot of the intervening time making up strange stories.
Then
Some time just over 200 years ago, European people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and a lot of them died.
More accurately, European convicts were sent, with a few deranged and stupid people in charge. They tried to plant their crops in Autumn (failing to take account of the reversal of the seasons when moving from the top half of the planet to the bottom). About then the sheep♡ arrived, and have been treasured ever since.

It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they can lie, cheat, steal, and litigate (marks of a civilized culture, they say) - whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left in the middle of a vast red-hot desert, equipped only with a stick.

Eventually, the new lot of people stopped being Europeans on Extended Holiday and became Australians. The changes are subtle, but deep, caused by the mind-stretching expanses of nothingness and eerie quiet, where a person can sit perfectly still and look deep inside themselves to the core of their essence, their reasons for being, and the necessity of checking inside your boots every morning for fatal surprises. They also picked up the most finely tuned sense of irony in the world, and the Aboriginal gift for making up stories. Be warned.

There is also the matter of the beaches. Australian beaches are simply the nicest and best in the entire world. Although anyone actually venturing into the sea will have to contend with sharks, stinging jellyfish, stonefish (a fish which sits on the bottom of the sea, pretends to be a rock, and has venomous barbs sticking out of its back that will kill just from the pain, and the reason the snakes and spiders are too scared to approach the sea,) and surfboarders. However, watching a beach sunset is worth the risk.

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American. Faced with insurmountable odds and impossible problems, they smile disarmingly and look for a stick. Major engineering feats have been performed with sheets of corrugated iron, string, and mud.

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence. They call the land "Straya", "Oz", "Godzone" (a verbal contraction of "God's Own Country") and "Best bloody place on earth, bar none, strewth."
The irritating thing is, they may be right.

There are some traps for the unsuspecting traveller.
Do not under any circumstances suggest that the beer is imperfect, unless you are comparing it to another kind of Australian beer.
Do not wear a Hawaiian shirt.
Religion and Politics are safe topics of conversation (Australians don't care too much about either),
Sport is a minefield.
The only correct answer to "So, howdya like our country, eh?" is "Best {your regional swear word} country in the world!".

It is very likely that some cheerful Australians will 'adopt' you on your first night, and take you to a pub where Australian Beer is served.
Despite the obvious danger, do not refuse.
This is a form of initiation.
You will wake up late the next day with an astonishing hangover, a foul-taste in your mouth, wearing strange clothes.
Your hosts will usually make sure you get home, and waive off legal difficulties with "It's his first time in Australia, so we took him to the pub.", at which the policeman will nod and close his notebook.
Be sure to tell the story of these events to every other Australian you encounter, adding new embellishments at every stage, and noting how strong the beer was.
Thus you will be accepted into this unique culture.

Most Australians are now urban dwellers, having discovered the primary use of electricity is air-conditioning and refrigerators.

Typical Australian sayings

"G'Day!"
"It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."
"She'll be right."
"And down from Kosciusko, where the pine clad ridges raise their torn and rugged battlements on high, where the air is clear is crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze at midnight in the cold and frosty sky. And where, around the overflow, the reed beds sweep and sway to the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide. The Man from Snowy River is a household word today, and the stockmen tell the story of his ride."

Tips to Surviving Australia

If you leave urban areas, carry many litres of water with you at all times, or you will die.
Good maps. Stopping to ask directions only works when there are people nearby to ask.
Don't put your hand down a hole, for any reason whatsoever. We mean it.
The beer is stronger than you think, regardless of how strong you think it is.
Carry a stick, always.
Air-conditioning.
Do not attempt to use Australian slang, unless you are a trained linguist and good in a fistfight.
Thick socks.
Even in the most embellished stories told by Australians, there is a core of truth that may be d̶e̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ can't write that u̶n̶w̶i̶s̶e̶ that's bland deadly ok to ignore.

Renters need insurance: university grad

Last updated Mar 9 2006 08:45 AM AST (being a few years old does not change validity) CBC News

A University graduate facing bankruptcy hopes his story leads to tenant insurance becoming mandatory in Nova Scotia.

Three years ago(22 years ago), Chris Dabrowski, 25(44), was in his last year at Dalhousie University when a fire blazed through the apartment he shared with three others.
The four former roommates are now being sued by their former landlord's insurance company.
One of Dabrowski's roommates accepted the blame because he had left a candle lit in his room and fell asleep. He didn't have tenant insurance, and now has declared bankruptcy.
Dabrowski is trying to avoid doing the same thing and is defending himself. He didn't have insurance either, yet if his parents had been paying his rent, he might have been covered under their policy.
"I was trying to do everything myself, and go through university myself without relying on anyone. Now, because of that, I'm being screwed more," Dabrowski said.
Don Forgeron, with the Insurance Bureau of Canada, said most tenants in Nova Scotia don't have insurance because they don't believe they need it.
"People think, 'I only have a few things, I'm only here for school,' not realizing that the primary purpose you have it is for liability protection," he said.
Dabrowski would like to see tenant insurance be made mandatory. He estimates that a $130-a-year($249 today) policy could have protected him from a lawsuit worth more than $20,000 ($54,936 today), his share of the costs to repair the building.
"The landlord's insurance company, maybe they should make it mandatory, because if they're going to go after the tenants anyhow when something happens, it would save everyone a lot of trouble," he said.
Dabrowski is selling T-shirts to cover some of his legal costs and let other renters know about his case.

End CBC article

The above document, reproduced courtesy of CBC, is the report of the aftermath of a tenancy accident.
After a fire in a rental property, the young tenants, have had their lives greatly affected, many people do not ever recover from bankruptcy.
The insurance company that insured the property is seeking restitution of its damages, resulting in one bankruptcy already and possibly more.
The landlord in the matter has nothing to do with the actions against the tenants and any difficulties such actions may cause, his (or her) insurance claim is complete. The insurer is trying to recover what it paid out from the person they deem responsible.
And its a fair fight (?) giant insurance company versus one person,
Tenant Insurance = backup,
Insurance company Vs. Insurance company.

All Dockrey Apartments leases require tenant insurance
Dockrey Apartments strongly reiterates the advice given in its 'Property rules' and the 'Frequently Asked Questions' for all other tenants to obtain tenants' insurance.
Dockrey Apartments does not receive any commission or fee from any insurance agent or company
Tenant insurance does not reduce or remove any requirement for Dockrey Apartments' or other landlord's insurance.
Dockrey Apartments gains no benefit if the tenant obtains insurance, only the tenant gains benefit.
Please obtain tenants insurance

Darkwing Duck :

[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the batteries that are not included.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am a special news bulletin that interrupts your favorite show.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the hairball that clogs your drains.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the wrong number that wakes you at 3am .
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the raspberry seed you can't floss out.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the onion that stings in your eye.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the low ratings that cancel your program.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the auditor that wants to look at your books.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the jackal that gnaws at your bones.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the smoke that smokes smoked oysters.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the termite that devours your floorboards.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the surprise in your cereal box.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the headache in the criminal mind.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the slug that slimes your begonias.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the jailer who throws away the key.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the ten dollar service charge on all returned checks.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the scourge that pecks at your nightmares.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the bubble gum that sticks in your hair.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the itch you cannot reach.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the ingrown toenail on the foot of crime.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the switch that derails your train.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the chill that runs up your spine.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the spider who nips at your neck.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the little mouse that eats your cheese.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the widget missing from the easy-to-assemble swing set.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the icky bug that crawls up your trouser leg.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the onion that stings in your eyes.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the paper cut that ruins your morning.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the butter that burns in your pan.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the surcharge that triples your bill.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the clipper that trims your hedges.
[blue smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night,: I am the blister on the pinkie toe of crime.
[red smoke] I am the terror that flaps in the night.: I am –obviously out of DarkWing^™ smoke.

Lets just make it simpler to detect drunk drivers
If they aren't fixing the potholes, Nova Scotia RCMP and town police forces could use them as an enforcement resource

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.

You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do
to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along. You'll start happening too.

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don't
Because, sometimes, you won't.

I'm sorry to say so, but sadly, it's true
and Hang-ups can happen to you.

You can get all hung up in a prickly perch.
And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And IF you go in, should you turn left or right.
or right-and-three-quarters?
Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.

The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come or a plane to go
or the mail to come or the rain to go
or the phone to ring or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil or a better break
or a sting of pearls or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls or another chance.
Everyone is just waiting.

NO! That's not for you!

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

With banner flip-flapping,
once more you'll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you're that kind of a guy!

Oh, the places you'll go!
There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored.
there are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.

I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

But on you will go though the weather be foul
On you will go though your enemies prowl
On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl
Onward up many a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.

On and on you will hike and I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems whatever they are.

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know.
You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98¾ percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!

Dr. Seuss

Google StreetView comes to Truro

10 June 2009
The Google car is photographing StreetView in Truro
and
Googlemaps put markers anywhere. grrrr

100 quotes about life and living

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. –Henry David Thoreau
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. –William F. Halsey
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. –Arthur Freed
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. –James A. Baldwin
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. –John Ruskin
Do nothing that is of no use. –Miyamoto Musashi
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. –Plutarch
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. –Peter Marshall
You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief. –Lionel Tiger
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. –John Ruskin
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. –Andrew Jackson
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. –Henry David Thoreau
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. –Bryant H. McGill
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. –Robert Collier
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. –W. Clement Stone
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. –Confucius
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. –Anais Nin
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. –Henry David Thoreau
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. –Fulton Sheen
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. –William Shakespeare
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. –Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. –Saint Augustine
Better to fight for something than live for nothing. –George S. Patton
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. –George Eliot
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. –John Dos Passos
For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep: the signals we give : yes or no or maybe : should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. –William Stafford
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. –Arthur Schopenhauer
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. –Max Beerbohm
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
God says, 'Choose what you will and pay for it –Spanish Proverb
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. –W. C. Fields
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. –George Peele
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. –Victor Hugo
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. –Epictetus
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. –Voltaire
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. –Francesco Guicciardini
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. –Orson Welles
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. –Lance Armstrong
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. –Abraham Maslow
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. –Virgil
Everyone is willing to do a favor for someone who doesn't need one. –50 Cent
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. –St. Jerome
Your time is up, my time is now, you cant see me, my time is now, its the franchise, boy I'm shinin' now, you cant see me, my time is now. –John Cena
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. –Leo Durocher
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. –Erma Bombeck
The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make. –Darren Hardy
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? –W. Somerset Maugham
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. –Jim Rohn
When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last. –Miyamoto Musashi.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. –Oprah Winfrey
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. –Heraclitus
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. –Bette Davis
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. –Michelangelo
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. –Vince Lombardi
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill. –Aeschylus
I have only one counsel for you, be master. –Napoleon Bonaparte
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. –Proverbs 16:18
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. –George Santayana
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. –Tony Robbins
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. –James M. Barrie
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. –Richard J. Daley
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. –Phillips Brook
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked. –Haile Selassie
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. –Edward Bond
Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means. –Roy Baumeister
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. –Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. –Lao Tzu
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. –Lord Chesterfield
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. –Walter Russell Mead
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. –Sam Rayburn
It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive. –Bob Burg / John David Mann
Stay hungry, stay foolish. –Steve Jobs
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. –Dag Hammarskjold
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. –Mohandas Gandhi
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. –Lord Chesterfield
Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. –Ric Flair
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting. –Buddha
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. –Dale Carnegie
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. –Jim McMahon
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. –Robert E. Lee
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. –Abraham Lincoln
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? –Jean-Baptiste Say
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. –T. S. Eliot
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. –J.G. Holland
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. –James Anthony Froude
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. –Chow Ching
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. –Vince Lombardi
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. –Dale Carnegie
Don't fight the problem, decide it. –George C. Marshall
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. –Samuel Ullman
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. –Lars von Trier
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. –Charles de Montesquieu
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. –Muhammad Ali
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. –Eric Hoffer
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. –Henry Ford
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. –Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ignition, liftoff 🚀.
Can't count. –Rob

07 Jan 2008

This is Jett,
He was sitting in the middle of a bridge, over Hwy104, in the dark, in the slush, in the rain, 1am on Sunday, hurt and scared.
We took him home and tried to find his owners.
Jett had been hurt, hit by a car and broke too many bones, the vet had to put him to sleep. He was very young only four months old, very friendly except when the pain made him bite, he was still wearing his collar and bell, so he was a pet,
Goodbye little cat.
Try to be kind to everything, and everything is kind to you, I hope. I think thats what I want the world to be like

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa,
one of the great masterpieces of all time.
Leonardo just couldn't get her to sit still

My Country

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon
The sapphire-misted mountains
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart my country!
Her pitiless blue sky
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks
Watch after many days
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country
A wilful lavish land -
All you who have not loved her
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours
Wherever I may die
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Dorothea Mackeller

Nova Scotia
adventures.

Nova Scotia
Wild water fun.

Nova Scotia
Whale watching.

Nova Scotia
Emergency Measures,
winter storms, be prepared

Nova Scotia Ships for Canada, support keeping Canadian ship building, -Canadian

ODE TO WINTER

With fall coming upon us, and the days getting shorter,
I thought you all would appreciate this superb, evocative, masterfully penned, ode to the coming winter season.

So, grab a coffee, a comfortable chair, relax and scroll down to enjoy the warm feelings and pleasure that this wonderful poem will bring...

ODE TO WINTER
It's Cold!

The End

Alberta
Alberta is a strange place, the farms there grow oilwells, each has one or more of these clunking away day and night.

Click for more pictures of this very interesting wreck

That house on Nuttby Mountain
Always looking for new properties to renovate and restore

end of The Working Week pigs fly
boss is happy
all customers served
all orders filled
all questions answered
all promises kept
all pigs ready for flight

I had heard about Quarter Horse racing, but I had never seen a Quarter Horse before.
Here is a Quarter Horse running.

Nova Scotia
On the Move.

Nova Scotia has developed its first Roundabouts, a traffic control superior to the Rotary, much higher traffic flow, much less risk of accident, and much less risk of injury from the few accidents that may occur at roundabouts if drivers follow the new rules. Roundabouts are different to Navigate. The main difference is traffic within the intersection has right of way, traffic about to enter the roundabout must yield. There are different lane alignments in the entry and exit ramps
Watch for new Roundabout signs in Halifax, Pictou, and Truro, and coming soon to a 4way or rotary near you.

In Canada the size of the roundabout is restricted, they have to be large enough to be plowed, if small the snow plow cannot get into the centre on the turns to plow out the road. In other countries where it doesnt snow, the roundabout has replaced 4-way stops, and a lot of traffic lights, even very small roundabouts for very small intersections

5 shopping days till christmas

There is much interest in examining space with telescopes,
and other devices, looking for signs of other life.
One sure sign of intelligent life, they have not tried to contact us.

Standards for snow removal

100 Series, trunk highways, and other high traffic roads: cleared within 8 hours after snow stops
Secondary roads, and other medium traffic roads: cleared within 12 hours after snow stops
Local paved roads, most subdivisions, and residential streets: cleared within 24 hours after snow stops
Gravel roads: cleared within 24 hours after snow stops

Its not really appropriate to telephone the landlord while still snowing to demand snow plows

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
It does not look likely to stir a man's Soul,
'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,
When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
Sir Edward Hamley

Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world, over 12 metres.
This time lapse animation of the tide at Government Wharf, Parrsboro, demonstrates how high.
Image ©Government of Nova Scotia.

tides GC.ca

Futurama
Fry wakes from cryosleep in 975 years, 0 months and 11 days

Find whats on in your town.

Town of Truro

Village of Bible Hill

Town of Amherst

City of Halifax

certified velociraptor free
last incident: 73 million 302 thousand 232 years, 5 months, 6 days ago

Venomous, or Poisonous?
If I bite you and you die, I am venomous.
If I bite you and I die, you are poisonous.
If I bite you and we both die, Australia.
so now you know.

Safer Computing
Put a Hosts file on your computer to block most ads, speed up downloading websites, block trackers, invisibly.

Tenant Notice: Winter Heat

Dockrey Apartments takes this opportunity to notify tenants about winter heat.

We apologise for mentioning the "W" word.

Ultramar Energy Ultramar Amherst 902 667 4333 or Ultramar Truro 902 893 2931 have a discount fuel offer for Dockrey Apartments' tenants, discounted for volume, you pay, what we pay.

There is no requirement for tenants to use any fuel provider, the tenant may be able to obtain another discount from another supplier.

Fuel suppliers provide a budget plan service, where the anticipated cost of fuel is spread over more months than the time of use, making costs easier.
But, all budget plans need to begin early. The earlier the start, the lower each payment will be.

Fuel use is foreseeable, and continuous, during winter. Running out of oil is preventable.
If the tenant runs out of oil during the winter, there are costs incurred in restarting the furnace, those costs are charged to the tenant.
Restarting the furnace is not a free service, nor is it the responsibility of Dockrey Apartments.

Fuel/electricity use, is directly related to thermostat setting.
It is unwise to leave the thermostat turned up when the premises are vacant, turned down a few degrees saves money.

Forced air furnaces have air filters,
these must be cleaned (plastic 'scourer' type) or replaced (paper screen type) regularly or airflow is reduced. Reduced air means longer burn times, more heat going up the chimney, and higher costs

Hot water baseboard furnaces have tiny fins,
these fins need to be vacuumed from the bottom to remove dust or pet hair. If these fins are blocked there is reduced air through the radiator. Reduced air means longer burn times, more heat going up the chimney, and higher costs.

Electric baseboards have tiny fins,
these fins need to be vacuumed from the bottom to remove dust or pet hair. If these fins are blocked there is reduced air through the radiator, longer run time, more electricity use, and higher costs.

adjustment

Electric baseboards generally have a thermostat in each room.
Heat sources with a single supply and central thermostat, are generally adjustable, the central thermostat may not be accurate in other rooms; forced air- flaps in the vents, cast iron rads- taps, water baseboards- flaps.
Reducing the heat closest to the thermostat makes the other rooms warmer, that room stays the same, it has the thermostat
Any heat source near the thermostat tricks it and turns off the heat.
-Using the stove as a heat source is not useful, every other room gets cold.
-Installing a freezer under the thermostat may not be good, -Installing the multimedia system under the thermostat may not be good

The landlord can not enter the unit randomly to clean heaters; the tenant must make these corrections.

Each year, we get a number of tenants in their first self-heated home; this information is primarily intended for them.

Happy Australia Day. Aussie BBQ

Happy Canada Day

Halloween
Our neighbours take holidays seriously.
or perhaps not, seriously
this display attracts sightseers, and at least one web photographer.

google Santa Tracking

norad Santa Tracking

The night before Christmas

night before Christmas: turkey hiding from Dad

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...

Now where is supper ?

In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
Flanders Poppies
- John McCrae

For The Fallen
The Ode,
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we Forget

as Summer approaches tenants and residents are reminded

Property rules

Swimming pools, wading pools, paddling pools, splash pads, and similar are prohibited. Special permission of the landlord may be asked. If permission is granted the permission is for a single season only and the swimming pool must be dismantled by 1 October each year
1. The landord grant of permission, does not grant planning permission required for a swimming pool, the tenant must obtain and provide proof of planning permission prior to installing any swimming pool
2. Any permitted swimming pool may only be filled by water trucked to the premises at the tenant’s expense, well or town water property supplies may not be used
3. Any permitted swimming pool must be securely fenced with a self latching gate; a “pool fence” as defined below, or by any statute, enactment, or bylaw, whichever is most restrictive.
  Defining a pool fence:
  1. All swimming pools shall be completely separated from adjacent properties, and adjacent parts of the subject property, by an obstruction such as a fence, building, deck or similar structure.
  2. The enclosure shall be constructed to prevent unauthorized access by providing a vertical obstruction having a minimum height of five feet with no opening exceeding four inches in width and no member shall be constructed to facilitate climbing.
  3. Except from within a building, all openings into a pool area enclosure shall be equipped with gates having self closing, self latching, child resistant, mechanisms.