steampunk jewelery

I know some people on my f-list are into the whole steampunk thing. Y'all should check out clockwork_zero's jewelery. Pretty neat stuff!

intrepid travellers miss important local Canadian icon

Highway 32 is a local road in Saskatchewan that runs off the Trans Canada and connects the towns of Leader and Swift Water. It's important to the locals in that there is one hospital that serves both communities, located in Swift Water.

So apparently, the province neglected the local road to the point where the potholes made it impassable to emergency vehicles. (For those of you who live in warm climates, frost fractures asphalt, and water erosion causes the soil underneath to move around. So every spring massive amounts of money has to be spent filling in brand new holes. Toronto has already spent a third of their pothole budget, and the snow hasn't even finished melting yet.)

So after years of ineffectual lobbying, the locals came up with a brilliant scheme to pressure the province into doing something about the problem. They published a calendar Featuring 12 local business people, posing naked with their favourite pothole.

The calendar is from 2007. We drove right by there and we didn't know about it!

This spring, the province of Saskatchewan finally started filling in the potholes.

Earth Hour

Ended up being three. 'Cause we were too busy with our candle-lit dinner and our post-dinner candle-lit conversation to notice the passage of time.

We have already decided that next year we are hosting a dinner party. Because there is something about the flicker of flame light on skin that results in intimacy and conversation and a kind of gentleness towards other human life forms that you really can't find under electric light.

I will not be unhappy if this ends up being a tradition.