Tans has been a very healthy dog. We haven’t had one ear infection yet. I took her to the vet once because she developed hives…I’m wondering if it was an allergy to bug bites or some plants or something. Once I took her to the vet because she started hacking, and puked up a couple …
Author Archives: Carin Headrick
Tansy Observations, The Winter Edition
It’s been a while since I’ve written Tansy updates, so here’s a bunch. As I was combing the blog to make sure I hadn’t already written some of these things, I laughed at the following passage: “So Tansy’s first winter has arrived, and we’ve had a few challenges, but nothing like what Trix and I …
Lego: Print On!
This is a pretty cool concept. To all the people who say Braille printers can’t be made cheaper, I say here, have a real live working Lego Braille printer. Sure, for now it only does the letters a-z, but that’s one amazing start, and one smart kid. Plus, he’s making it open source, which means …
Kitchener, The Touchy Feely City
I have mentioned several times that the people in Kitchener have been super friendly and super helpful. But sometimes, my good lord, they can be a little too friendly. Here’s an example. I’ll be standing at the bus stop. The bus will arrive. But people are getting on and off, so I’m being caughtious. People …
Oh MiO My Oh Eeewwww
Now that I’ve written about the Enzyte hotel, I figured I’d write about another commercial, or couple of them, that I’ve meant to write about for months. Out of the blue, these commercials appeared for this Mio stuff. From the audio, I had no friggin idea what this stuff was, but it didn’t sound good. …
Now I Want A Beavertail!
We need to fix something. Steve’s never had a beavertail! … At which point tons of people think I’m actually talking about eating a beaver’s tail. No no no. There are these fried pastry things that look like a beaver’s tail. Since I grew up near Ottawa, our family would go to Ottawa a lot, …
The Enzyte Hotel?
Steve mentioned Trivago the other day, which reminded me that I wanted to write something about Trivago, have been meaning to for a while. When I first heard a Trivago commercial, I wasn’t paying attention. I heard its whistling song, and then a reference to finding a hotel. My first thought was complete shock. In …
Music Is A Feeling
Here’s something that Gill sent in last week, and I meant to put up, but didn’t get to it. I fail. Most people who know me well will tell you that I like the blues genre of music, but what they may or may not say is that I especially enjoy the earliest kind. Not …
Holding On For Yipe?
Am I the only person who thinks Broken Bells – Holding On for Life sounds like yappy dogs? It’s always on the CBC, in fact, for some twisted reason, it was no. 1 in the top 20 once, and it seaps into my subconscious, but all I can think when I hear it is “bla …
Epic Olympic Dream
Gill sent us a post about an Olympic-related dream she had, which made me look for This ‘This Hour has 22 Minutes’ Olympic dream video. So now, here’s Gill’s dream, which made me chuckle. Remember a few months back when I told you about the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 …