Although professional hockey has been the undisputed domain of males, more and more women are participating in Canada's national sport as amateurs and international competitors.
A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over a thousand unique posts in these three years. Images, both visual and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
December 31, 2021
DEC 31, death and the afterlife: decease in the crease
Although professional hockey has been the undisputed domain of males, more and more women are participating in Canada's national sport as amateurs and international competitors.
December 30, 2021
DEC 30, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'if final ... Panama'
You can review the whole collection of our illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Panama palindrome parodies' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
December 29, 2021
DEC 29, curtained verse: orchestral pecking-order
EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post!
December 28, 2021
DEC 28, patients and maladies: non-tumorous '-oma's,
December 27, 2021
DEC 27, binomial phrases: fossil words
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
December 26, 2021
DEC 26, reptiles: geckos (on ceiling)
December 25, 2021
DEC 25, personal and family history: a brief personal bio xxxxxxxxxxxxx Nate
That's my older brother in 1945 holding Dad's photo; (lower left). I wasn't quite on the scene, yet! |
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Mom and Dad with their offspring, 50th anniversary celebration |
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seasonal gourmet feast, 2021: (a dual-mode family celebration) Xmas lunch in the Carolina lowcountry |
December 24, 2021
DEC 24, classic palindrome: 'a Santa at NASA'
December 23, 2021
DEC 23, variant Nantucket limerick: zoophile from Nanoose
December 22, 2021
DEC 22, planet-saving verse: shorebird council's demand
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ruddy turnstone at a narrow Carolina beach-strip littered with oyster-shells. This bird is a long distance migrator, roosting in the high Arctic. |
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shorebird, seen near Toronto lakeshore: killdeer? |
turnstones (running), and oystercatcher |
December 21, 2021
DEC 21, Carolina lowcountry: delicious December days
Editor's Note: As old age and aversion to cold weather have descended, we spend time whenever we can in the Carolina low-country. It is a cliché to say that winter is shorter in more southerly places, but that sometimes means that there are days when winter rages back in central Canada, but is not in evidence down here in lotus-land. On this particular day we learned from our weather-app that it would be snowy back home in Toronto, but would be a short-sleeve day in coastal Carolina.
Pelicans perched at creekside awaiting the returning fishers |
Tranquility near the center of suburban action |
Geometric restored oyster-bed at the Pitt St. Bridge park, Arthur Ravenel Bridge in background |
American white ibises in the marsh |
white ibis in flight |
cormorants on dock |
toothpick grasshopper on papyrus leaf |
December 20, 2021
DEC 20, toxic vignette: chelation
Review all our poems of toxicologic interest by clicking HERE.
December 19, 2021
DEC 19, non-sequitur: the charity auction
December 18, 2021
DEC 18, limerick for language-lovers: Hebrew
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