CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Marty]

9 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

I have been studying you good Marty

I bet you say that to all the good looking guys... 

 

[Marty]

14 hours ago, Marty said:

I'm not sure if its the same in your province, but I read an autobiography (can't remember who by) many years ago of someone who lived in British Columbia. He said that in his part of that province he didn't experience spring. Apparently summer would eventually just appear.

It's a book I bought in a second hand bookshop sometime in my early to mid twenties (so sometime in the 1970's), and had been written in the early years of the twentieth century. I seem to remember the author's opening sentence being something along the lines of "The first time I saw the place that I now call home, all the land around me was burnt." He was unhappy with the exploitation of the land, and the clear-felling that had been done of the native forests. He realised that the beaver, which has been hunted to extinction locally, was an important factor in maintaining the balance of nature, and spent several years repairing old beaver dams to regulate the flow of water and prevent flash flooding and erosion of the soil. Eventually a wild life ranger became interested in what he was doing, and gave him a pair of beavers. Within several short years, as they bred and their numbers increased, the land returned to its more natural state. 

I have my copy in one of the many boxes of books that are awaiting bookshelves to be put up in my new place. I really must dig it out sometime and re-read it.

 

12 hours ago, Headstall said:

That actually sounds familiar. We definitely have spring in Ontario.  

 

12 hours ago, Marty said:

When and if I manage to dig the book out, I'll give you the tile and author.  

 

12 hours ago, Headstall said:

I might be thinking about a book I read by Grey Owl, a famous Canadian writer who said he was half native and Scottish, but turned out to be from England. He was really into beaver conservation. Pretty cool guy. 

It is actually very possible that I am mixing the contents of two different books that I read around fifty years or so ago about wilderness life in Canada in the early 1900's, and that it was only Grey Wolf's work that contained the information about beavers. I'm just not fully sure after all these years. I really should try and dig the books out (my book collection is vast, and currently in various and numerous boxes and crates).

But, if you're interested, the National Film Board of Canada have an 8 minute silent film (with annotations) called The Beaver People, which was originally released in 1928 by the "National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior", showing Grey Wolf and his wife interacting with beavers...

https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_people/

Edited April 22, 2020 by Marty
Tidying up

[Marty]

Good morning, all.

Another beautiful day here, so don't expect to see all that much of me until late evening.

(Although I will be in occasionally for snacks.)

Hope you all have a great day.

[Bucket1]

Ahhhhhhhhh the Internet is sooooooooooooo slow tonight  

 

Happy Wednesday everyone

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Albert1434]

Oh Marty you know I love you

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Bucket1 said:

Ahhhhhhhhh the Internet is sooooooooooooo slow tonight  

 

Happy Wednesday everyone

I was having exactly the same problem last night and this morning. I can only get mobile broadband where I live, and it can often be a bit flaky at the best of times. But since the lockdown, and the kids being home from school all the time, it's been a lot worse.

Late last night even opening a page like this one was taking in excess of 30 seconds or more. So, as you can probably imagine, it was a waste of time trying to watch youtube, or any of my other video streaming sites.

Happy Wednesday yourself, B!

Edited April 22, 2020 by Marty
Tidying up

[Albert1434]

Check this out

https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/american-museum-of-natural-history/OQGjMrLQ0rj5Dw?sv_lng=-73.97396209755716&sv_lat=40.78086186830118&sv_h=142.78765767061276&sv_p=-5.808740317739208&sv_pid=Md-fJNlNma_Snh-_uYmK

[Marty]

48 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, young Albert!

Hope all's well, and you haven't got a sore head after all the birthday celebrations.

 

[Marty]

49 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Oh Marty you know I love you

That's good to hear...

Because I love me, too!

 

[Albert1434]

Marty you might like this climber and the bees love it

its called Honeysuckle and it smells great

Edited April 22, 2020 by Albert1434

[Marty]

4 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Check this out

https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/american-museum-of-natural-history/OQGjMrLQ0rj5Dw?sv_lng=-73.97396209755716&sv_lat=40.78086186830118&sv_h=142.78765767061276&sv_p=-5.808740317739208&sv_pid=Md-fJNlNma_Snh-_uYmK

Sweet!

[Marty]

9 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Marty you might like this climber and the bees love it

That looks like honeysuckle, also known as woodbine (Lonicera periclymenum), one of my favourite wild flowers.

It's actually growing wild in the hedge on one side of my garden (the one the robins are nesting in).

The flowers have a beautiful scent, particularly after dark on warm evening. Apparently they are pollinated by night flying moths that have long tongues (technically: proboscises) that can get down to the nectar at the base of the long tube-like flowers. Some species of bees are known to bite through the base of that tube to get at the nectar.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Marty
Clarification

[Albert1434]

Scientists discover a new snake and name it after Salazar Slytherin!

Edited April 22, 2020 by Albert1434

[Headstall]

5 hours ago, Marty said:

 

 

 

It is actually very possible that I am mixing the contents of two different books that I read around fifty years or so ago about wilderness life in Canada in the early 1900's, and that it was only Grey Wolf's work that contained the information about beavers. I'm just not fully sure after all these years. I really should try and dig the books out (my book collection is vast, and currently in various and numerous boxes and crates).

But, if you're interested, the National Film Board of Canada have an 8 minute silent film (with annotations) called The Beaver People, which was originally released in 1928 by the "National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior", showing Grey Wolf and his wife interacting with beavers...

https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_people/

Yeah, I'd already seen it, and other videos of him. I remember a documentary on him from many years ago. There was also a movie about his life from about twenty years or more ago...Pierce Brosnan played him.  

[Headstall]

3 hours ago, Bucket1 said:

Ahhhhhhhhh the Internet is sooooooooooooo slow tonight  

 

Happy Wednesday everyone

Hi, B!  Worked from home today?

[Headstall]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Hey, Albert!  

[Albert1434]

Aloha Gary

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Marty you might like this climber and the bees love it

its called Honeysuckle and it smells great

I have one of those... it's pinkish white.  

[Headstall]

4 minutes ago, Headstall said:

I have one of those... it's pinkish white.  

This is what mine looks like...

Mine is not as bushy because it gets a lot of shade, so the branches are longer and more spread out, and it looks more like a weeping bush with a crown. It is lovely. You can't go wrong with one of these, Marty.  

Happy Wednesday, all.  

[Albert1434]

Man that looks nice I had the yellow one

[Page Scrawler]

8 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Man that looks nice I had the yellow one

Hey, Bertie.   

[Albert1434]

Aloha Page

[Albert1434]

The Tyson meat plant closed because all 2800 works all have the Virus. This plant is in Iowa and you can bet on less supply and higher prices

Edited April 22, 2020 by Albert1434

[Headstall]

2 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

The Tyson meat plant closed because all 2800 works all have the Virus. This plant is in Iowa and you can bet on less supply and higher prices

They should have closed it a long time ago.