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After reading my son's blog article titled: A World Wide Stream of Consciousness I started to think some more about this world wide web we call the Internet. I always saw it as a spider's web where we are all interconnected in a relational way not a linear way. To me it always felt like the natural way to connect and relate to others and the world around us. Now this article has just confirmed it. Well, my mind kept on going and suddenly I remembered that in the 90s my son and I were playing this computer game called Loom by LucasFilm. I loved that game and found the idea behind it cool. Musical notes are used to weave the threads of life. So with the Internet we have now created our own life loom that shows us how interrelated we all are just like a spider's web. So is the Internet a web or a loom? I believe it is both. I would love to hear from you with your ideas and comments about this.

Recently I have come across twitter recipes, recipes written with just 140 characters. Sometimes it takes some time to understand the shorthand, but most of the time they are easy to understand. I like cooking as long as I can make a meal in half an hour, I don't like spending a day in the kitchen to make a meal. As my mother always said you work hard in the kitchen and then in 10 minutes it is all gone. She and I do not find this a satisfying way to express our creativity. At the same time, I really enjoy cooking from scratch rather than pre-made. Here are a few Twitter links with recipes: Cookbook TinyRecipes Lucy Waverman

A lovely sunny and warm spring walk in Point Pleasant Park turned out to be a perfect photo opportunity. I really liked the way the waves were breaking at the point of the Halifax peninsula. Wallpaper with Calendar 1024 x 768 pixels 1280 x 1024 pixels 1920 x 1200 pixels Wallpaper without Calendar 1024 x 768 pixels 1280 x 1024 pixels 1920 x 1200 pixels

Continuing with the cleanup of my garden after winter, it was time to collect all the pine cones and put them as mulch underneath the blue spruce. Blue spruce cones are different than pine cones. This is what wikipedia says about blue spruce cones: The cones are pendulous, slender cylindrical, 6-11 cm long and 2 cm broad when closed, opening to 4 cm broad. They have thin, flexible scales 20-24 mm long, with a wavy margin. They are reddish to violet, maturing pale brown 5–7 months after pollination. The seeds are black, 3-4 mm long, with a slender, 10-13 mm long pale brown wing. The pine cones are much thicker and hardier and when open look like little hedgehogs. Imagine my surprise, when I discovered something that looked like a little pineapple, but it was a pine cone. This is the first time since I moved to this house that I have seen this (10 years). To me they look like artichokes, after you have pulled the leaves off. So I guess the resident squirrel population thinks that these p...

When I am too lazy to open Photoshop, I found this online photo editor is perfect for the job: Pixlr . Cropping an image to send by email or even making some minor adjustments online works great. I like to work with Photoshop, but sometimes it is not worth opening the program for working on one picture. It took me a long time to get the hang of Photoshop. I guess when you are not ready for something trying to force it just does not work. When the timing is right things will happen as if by magic, when the timing isn't right it is like banging your head against a brickwall. I have learned the hard way and it applies to everything in life.

I am always on the lookout for different and alternative views to what is the common perception of how things are. Yesterday I came across a link to this BBC 5 video . I had heard similar views before and found it very well presented. My question after watching the video is: but what is the alternative? It is easy to tear apart one theory or view, but presenting a better more equalitarian way is not as easy to come by. I personally don't have knowledge of an alternative as much as I dislike the current system. Hopefully, by becoming fully aware of the current system and the unfairness of it, we can come up with a better system. I am not a person, I am a woman.

Today was the first morning that I was out in the garden for this year. I really missed my daily hour of gardening early in the morning. Until now it was just too cold and the ground was also still to wet. I don't mind going outside in a longsleeved tshirt and long pants, but don't like to wear a jacket. The hillside is still a little wet and some of the rocks move when standing on them. I say that the hillside is still at places like molasses. So I was mainly cleaning up fallen branches and checking out how the garden survived the winter. Everything seems fine and new growth is showing. I also I tried out my new gardening shoes that I received for my birthday from my son and his wife. They are bright red and very comfortable. I gave them a trial run yesterday on my walk around the lake and got a lot of compliments, how can you miss them, they almost glow. I find they are especially comfortable on uneven terrain.