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I often ate at my workstation. Maybe go to lunchroom 30% of time during a month. For some employers prior to last one, it was nearly 95% of time at work station. I didn't make many work buddy friends. Well only 2 so far....even in retirement. That's all I need. Yes, I am spending more money for coffees and snacks, in my retirement.

An nice alternative is a silver-grey SUV or similar.

Several sibs. avoided buying a white car except brother.

Tik tok is used heavily br younger generations. The greatest concern is impact very young generation. Who like to be entertained while being “informed” or just amused . Parents now must make conscious effort to prefer kids read stuff to develop focus. We are already getting propaganda in our regular internet. We think whole of china is not as smart in deep thinking on good stuff. We think all products from china are crappy when we produce some of the crap ourselves.

I didn't think in the workplace one could take such liberty to hang stuff from pipes. I realize bike is not very heavy...but it just means he hung other stuff from pipes?

Your Kingdom Launch Audio in a New Window BY ELENI SIKELIANOS if you like let the body feel all its own evolution inside, opening flagella & feathers & fingers door by door, a ragged neuron dangling like a participle to hear a bare sound on the path, find a red-eye-hole rabbit, fat of the bulbous stalk pecked out to the core so you can bore back to the salamander you once were straggling under the skin grope toward the protozoa snagging on the rise toward placental knowing who developed eyes for you agape in open waters the worm that made a kidney-like chamber burrows in directing your heart leftward in nodal cascade, slow at your hagfish spine who will bury your bones investigate a redwood rain or tap the garnet of your heartwood, bark, put your flat needles on dry ice to inquire after your tree family, father or mother in the fairy-ring next to you, find you are most closely related to grass your hexaploid breathing pores gently closing at night, when did you begin your coexistence with flowering plants from which arose the bee before the African honey badger but after the dark protoplanetary disk of dust grains surrounding the sun become the earth you had no nouns, did you

Try to imagine cycling in the rain on a highway with long haul trucks every 15 min. for 30 km. or more. And on shoulder. It was scariest ride because of the backdraft from truck..and spray. Dearie chose this but didn't know the trucks would dominate... this is out of Toronto towards.....my teen county area. In this case, we were nuts.

Your frugal wifey.. somewhere down the road in summer probably will be a lovely dinner.

Yesterday- 9 km. cycling Today- 25 km. cycling Last 4 days - 7 km. walking

I just finished middleastern flatbread 1/4 section with mustard and proscuitto.

which is true for some Toronto areas.

@Johnny Come Lately Name wonderful photos!

Even my sibs who live in nice neighbourhoods, I don't think many folks have a swimming pool. ie. High Park area is older and land plots are small, some backyards slope steeply downward. So just impossible to have inground pool. North York maybe some. Neighbourhood next to Bridle Path. And not common at all, where I bike around...which tends to be in older neighbourhoods and land plots are small but homes are nice.

However what I get, peameal bacon /backbacon is a little thicker. Sometimes cornmeal or similar dusting on edges.

It's a delicious feeling.

When I met up with the 2 ladies from Chicago 2 months ago, I didn't notice much except for certain accents on certain words. I was with them for....4 hrs. However Chicago is north, close to border, so differences aren't much. I noticed in @petitepedal a slight accent on certain words, but for @MoseySusan , I don't recall hearing anything different. And I was with them for several days. I'm not sure what they noticed of me. I tend to notice more on sound inflections, syllabic accent differences, etc. instead of preference on word usage. Now, with Brits and Aussies, I notice both, sound inflections and word use preference. Use of restroom vs. washroom are both verbally used by Canadians. That's why I don't notice that "difference" at least for me. However you are a northerner. I'm sure, I would hear distinct differences in the south.

Lovely! I think I saw pinkish trillium once upon a time. But never a deep purple one! I had to giggle about the dump.

Yes, this certainly will happen.

How many of you have actually met/known Canadian face to face? Did they truly sound different to you?

It's what I photographed...last year and 7 yrs. ago. You'll see soon. I deliberately like to date stamp-publish a new post, not too soon after current one. I can't see myself trapaising for many hrs., tomorrow to look for the little darlings during bike ride.

I would probably say loudly back to them, "Excuse me!" (Not Pardon me. I say that when I need to ask the person to repeat something I couldn't hear.)

Now if I would ever see the yellow banana slug again, as I saw somwhere near a wooded area in B.C. It's very bright orangy yellow and it was on wet pavement. I can't even remember exactly where, since it was probably close to 30 yrs. ago. Maybe @Zephyr sees them.

Yes, I've seen trillium flowers in the forests when I lived in Ontario! More by chance, we didn't ostensibly hike for that hopeful viewing. Trillium is Ontario's provincial flower.

How to Talk Like a Canadian: 12 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow I don't follow all the habits outlined in the wiki entry. But yes, I much prefer and do use British word spelling. I will consciously correct if Word software spits out center, instead of centre. Preference for British spelling became even further ingrained in me, when consulting the scholarly Oxford English Dictionary for word etymology occasionally, when I did my English Literature courses at uni., especially for much older British works from a few centuries ago. Yes, I do say "zed" for "z" instead of "zee", which sounds unnatural to me.

I did notice myself after being in the U.S. -- I think it was in WA or MD state. Can't remember. But I started to take upon an American accent for certain words...only after 5 days. It surprised me. However, I think it's because my mother tongue is Chinese and to speak the language from baby onward, is to be naturally attuned to certain tones and syllables. When I speak Chinese, my voice totally changes to adapt ...that's my only explanation, how fast I adopted an accent for certain words for U.S. "accent". An accent change does require change in syllable accent/ emphasis and to me, also tiny change in tone where the accent should fall. thank you for my microanalysis --totally unscientific.