It’s a busy Tuesday, so for now I’m sharing a bit of humour with the cat people out there (Helma, I think you’ll like this one!), sent to me from the staff of Mr. B.
January, 2009
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How To Give A Cat A Pill
January 27, 2009 by Gail
Posted in Critters + Creatures, Humour, Xena & Beano | 5 Comments
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Sorry, Beano, It’s Not Tuna
January 26, 2009 by Gail
He heard the tin-opener and came running. He looks SO EXCITED. Sorry to disappoint, Beano, but it’s a tin of chickpeas.
Posted in Critters + Creatures, Xena & Beano | 2 Comments
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Weekend Preview
January 25, 2009 by Gail
I arrived home late Sunday night laden with bags of groceries and my photography backpack, definitely feeling the effects of the weekend activities. Just climbing the stairs was slow going!
I took A LOT of photos — over 500 — and I haven’t looked through them all yet, so what I’ll do is skim through the batch and choose a few favourites from:
- snowshoeing at Blue Mountain on Saturday
- Marin’s Chinese New Year’s party on Saturday night
- my photoshoot with Justin Ruttan of Cherish Events on Sunday.
Here goes:
Posted in Out + About, portraiture, The Great Outdoors | 2 Comments
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Snowshoeing @ Blue Mountain
January 24, 2009 by Gail
Posted in Mobile Blogging | 1 Comment
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Friendly Bear North Of Toronto
January 24, 2009 by Gail
Posted in Mobile Blogging | 1 Comment
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Ganache Is French For ‘Chocolate Cake With Fewer Syllables’
January 23, 2009 by Gail
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My title for this photo in Flickr: ganache is French for “it’s chocolate cake, but ganache has fewer syllables and is therefore less caloric” — but I like my WordPress titles to fit on one line. I’ve fooled myself into thinking that a ganache cake isn’t as sweet as a regular cake, and therefore it’s healthier.
(This is Helen’s birthday cake. Happy Birthday, Helen!)
Posted in Food + Drink | 4 Comments
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Got Milk?
January 22, 2009 by Gail
Gail at Large is turning into a cat photo album! This is a little preview of photos from last night, because the House of Fielding is having a busy week.
Photos of Charlie the (chatty) tabby, while testing as high an ISO as I can get from this camera. The top photo is a JPEG straight out of the camera, so you can see the granularity at high ISO (3200) without editing. [View Larger]
The bottom photo was edited a bit for noise reduction and brightness levels, then sharpened. Check out the grain here, after noise reduction (5%).
Posted in Critters + Creatures, Photography | 3 Comments
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Full Of Beans This Morning
January 21, 2009 by Gail
I don’t know what’s gotten into him, but Beano is a frisky maniac, bouncing around like he’s full of Mexican jumping beans. He won’t stay still for more than half a second, so the lens is wide open. You can tell how dim it is by the size of his pupils. In the original colour version, his nose is pink from exertion.
In other news, it’s -12C but with the windchill factor it is -25C this morning! I went to the grocery store as it was beginning to get light, and the walk, which is less than two blocks, felt like two kilometres.
Posted in Critters + Creatures, Xena & Beano | 4 Comments
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Out With The Old, In With The New
January 20, 2009 by Gail
A couple of videos for today, the first one by French Canada’s Mitsou, probably unknown unless you are also a Canadian who grew up in the ’80s:
And secondly, The Corrigan Brothers offer up irrefutable evidence that there’s no one as Irish as the 44th President of the United States (JFK was the 35th):
Well, in any case, Obama will be adding some much-needed colour (green?) to the Big White House for at least the next four years. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of political satire emerges in the meantime.
The karaoke version is here if you want to know what the heck they’re singing.
Posted in Culture + Society, Humour, Music, Politics + Economy, Videoclips | 2 Comments
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But Yams Are Healthy, Even At Midnight
January 20, 2009 by Gail
I got hungry while working late, so I cut up a yam and made sweet potato fries. Eating fries late at night is OK when they’re a vegetable, right?
Beano would’ve been much happier if I were eating tuna like the previous night. This is what he’s like when he hears anything that MIGHT be the sound of a can opener:
Once he finds out it isn’t the divine act of opening a tuna can, he completely loses interest.
Posted in Critters + Creatures, Food + Drink, Xena & Beano | 2 Comments
