Lorraine

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We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking ~ Richard Rohr Offaly 🇮🇪 Bog witch. Transplanted to a rocky shore. 🇵🇸 Mi’kma’ki / Nova Scotia.

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Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jul 9

New Brunswick DNR in Dieppe?

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jul 9

I had totally forgotten Pierre Polievre had a cameo in the video for Bonnie Tyler’s 1984 smash hit Holding out for a Hero. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcA...

A screen grab of an 80s music video. In it a cowboy dressed in white rides through the night towards an extremely aroused Bonnie Tyler.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jul 7

The Canadian Conservative Party (Reform really). Kicking the goddam ass out of woke for twenty years now.

Pierre Polievre wearing the Milky Bar Kid cowboy outfit.

Steven Harper in a very weird hat. Black leather stampede waistcoat and little shoelace tie.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jul 5

Why is it a sunset and not an earth roll?

Sunset over the Bay of Fundy. The sun is bright red in a mostly orange sky.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jun 23

Definitely not GenX. Yet.

A chart that shows a sharp increase in the use of reverse mortgages in Canada.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jun 22

Having a little solstice fire. The fireworks are already starting at Lawrencetown beach. Take a moment to reflect on all you’ve done since December 21. Great job! Is there a loose end you need to work on? Something you lost track of? Make a note. That’s your intention for the next few moons.

A small backyard fire in an old rusty barrel. There’s a blue shed in the background.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Jun 10

My little Arthur Beagle, my best boy, is getting so elderly. He ambled after a snowshoe hare yesterday and the hare played along for a bit. I think even she knows. He’s sunning himself on the deck this morning. Living in the moment. I should try to do same instead of dreading a future without him.

A dog is lying on a wicker chair with a blue cushion. He is half in sunlight and shade. He has a white head with brown ear patches.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 31

Took a tentative second step towards us potentially having a little willow farm. First step was learning to grow willow. Today I made my first basket!! Now we just have to clear the land.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 28

I’m in Miami Beach on a job so I visited the Wolfsonian design museum and they have an entire floor dedicated to Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window!

Harry Clarke and the Geneva Window

In 1926, just five years after winning independence from the United Kingdom, the government of the Irish Free State commissioned world renowned artist Harry Clarke to create a stained-glass window for the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland. For its content, Clarke focused on works of the Irish Literary Revival, a movement associated with Irish nationalism and a broader renewed interest in the country's
ancient past as a basis for an independent national identity.
Intended as Ireland's gift to the League of Nations and a vehicle to showcase a new, modern nation, the completed stained-glass, known as the Geneva Window, was condemned by the country's conservative government as too provocative. Clarke, unwilling to make changes and in rapidly failing health, died shortly before its official rejection. His jewel-like masterpiece endures, a testament to the exquisite and idiosyncratic complexity of Clarke's work and an entry point into understanding the cultural and political forces that shaped his world.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 15

Glenbarrow waterfall. Four years ago this week we scattered my dad’s ashes a little further downstream. I do love to visit with his memory in this beautiful peaceful place. Full of birdsong. 💕

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 15

I can’t remember the last time I took a day off.

A latte and a slice of strawberry roulade at Emma’s coffee shop in Birr.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 15

In my hometown, going to the library to do some printing. The library is housed in the former Mercy convent, designed by Pugin, a little Victorian Gothic gem in the Irish Midlands.

A grey limestone Victorian gothic religious building. It has a tower and conical roof at one end. The windows at the near end are stained glass.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 5

Pedicure happening! Thanks for all the support today!

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 2

It stopped raining long enough for me to shovel out a cab full of mulch. I am sore now.

A woman is standing in the cab bed of an old Toyota tundra. She is shovelling mulch into a garden bed. In the background there are trees and a bright blue sky.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· May 1

Shelburne, Digby, Yarmouth.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 25

I’m froze half to death but I got my crabs!!

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 20

I am fixing up my old kitchen. The cupboards are 43 yo, they need to go home to the 80s and die. It has been a great kitchen, it has produced great food. The tiled floor is almost retro. I could put in boring countertop on the left and not retile. Or trendy new countertop and retile. Thoughts?

If I install this bland grey countertop on my new cupboards (cupboards are not pictured here but they’re white) could I get away with not retiling this kitchen?

If I install this fairly trendy countertop on my new cupboards (cupboards are not pictured here but they’re white) i would have to retile the kitchen. Or go wooden floor? What should I be thinking of doing?

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 19

Got a great window seat at a waterside eatery. #SpringFog #EastCoast

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 18

This house is for sale on the island. You’re buying a great view into St Mary’s Bay. The house needs a complete renovation. It’s also extremely haunted. I spent one morning working there 20 years ago, and never went back. Two terrible deaths - years apart - happened here.

Screen grab from a realty site, showing a very run down yellow wood frame house with a porch extension.

A man unalived himself in this house when the bailiffs came to evict him a year after he lost it in a tax sale.

The guy who bought it in the tax sale and wouldn’t give it back after the taxes were paid within a year - like you’re supposed to - is selling it now.

Screen grab from a realty site showing the view from a house out on a point. Great view, terrible house.

A guy froze to death one night after falling into a drunken sleep on the doorstep.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 10

Timely.

A still from the movie Planet of the Apes.

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 3

Maybe they will also finish the provincial website.

Screenshot of a query to Scottie, the Nova Scotia government chat bot.

“The Government of Nova Scotia currently operates some content and services on a newer “beta” website at beta.novascotia.ca alongside the existing novascotia.ca site. For example, the Department of Agriculture pages note that additional information is available on the beta website, and some frequently used services (like certain Service Nova Scotia transactions) are also delivered through beta pages linked from government sites.

However, in the public information I can access, there is no official explanation provided for why the site is still labelled “beta” or any timeline for when that label might change. The
available pages only indicate that some government programs and services are being delivered through the beta site, not the reasoning or status behind the “beta” designation itself.”

Lorraine@ihearthestia· Apr 3

Someone got me this for Xmas and it has been so timely. Such a great book, really easy to read and there’s so many parallels between then and now. Between the Shah and 47. Intelligence agencies then and now. Highly recommend.