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Gardening and Ponding(?)!

Greenland Garden Centre
Sherwood Park
greenlandgarden

Aqualine Waterfeatures
23211 Township Road 514
Sherwood Park
aqualinewaterfeatures

A scary storytime!

"Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name!"
By Tedd Arnold

"The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West Was Tamed"
By John Frank

"The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!"
By Mo Willems

"The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood"
By Toby Forward

"The Perfect Little Monster"
By Judy Hindley

"Parts"
By Tedd Arnold

"In A Dark, Dark Wood"
By David A. Carter

I read "In A Dark, Dark Wood" between every story. Well, what I did was read a page, get to scared and then go on to the next story. Read it again from the beginning and make it a page further into the story. The kids loved it!

Stories picked, but not read:

"The Night and the Dragon"
By Tomie DePaola

"Milo's Hat Trick"
By Jon Agee

"Man on the Moon (A day in the life of Bob)"
By Simon Bartram

Shaun Tan is the author and illustrater of "The Red Tree". My very favorite picture book. He is a wonderful illustrator and this is a wonderful story.

The Grouse archive for July 2004 has a link to a short animation of the story, "The Lost Thing".

A very good "Calvin and Hobbes" link

Kerzap

A nice little blog,
Spline Doctors

Blogs don't usually catch my eye... yes even though this is one. But this one did.

A new link

Another catalog of blogs

blogcatalog

Edward Burtynsky

is a Canadian photographer that takes pictures of manufactured landscapes. Sometimes brilliant colour, breathtaking views, or stunning scenes.

"Nature transformed through industry is a predominate theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on."

"We are drawn by desire - a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times."

Edward Burtynsky

Manufactured Landscapes The book at EPL

Terragen is a free 3d environment modeller.

another free art/painting program.
dogwaffle

Pictures Original pictures of the Wizard of Oz

How cute is this.

Bagpipes in Art. Pretty nifty

A little bit on video cards.

Here are a couple of links to download onto cd for art purposes

Installer 2.0

And, ArtRage at ambient design.

Again with the 3d, X-Frog is a program, (maybe free?) that is a stand alone 3d interface to help create plants.

Here we go again... The true Circle of my life

Primitiveitch.com a whole bunch of plugins for truespace.
ambientlight tutorials.
lunadude tutorials
tutorial about moons and a planet. A good starting point.
huntfor tutorials.
tutorgig a meta site of tutorials. I'm not sure about this one.
yet another.

3d commune I'm not sure what this is, but it looks neat.3d total is neat.

Baldiman a good resource page.

Gallery of 3D is just as the name appears... a gallery.

TrueSpace WebRing

WebRing

Camera related.

Nikon MC-12B remote cord

Lenses:

Nikon Af-G 70-300 mm f4-f5.6 209$
Nikon AF-D 70-300 mm f4-f5.6 ED 529$

Unearthed - Melbournea competition held for unheard of talent in Melbourne. Mumonkan were one of the winners.

MumonkanMark Saul plays in this electronic band. This site is an mp3 of one of their tunes. coooehl!

scotpress is a business that sells out of print and older (1800-1900) bagpipe books

Western Aussie Pipe Band A nice little web site.

Dunaber.com is Michael Grey's site. It has his new CD listed on it... Nine Blasted Notes... Looks good; I'll have to give some of the tracks a listen on the web page.

Kinnaird bagpipes makes the drone reeds I am looking at at this time. 150$. They also sell the McCallum Bagpipes. Set AB5's 2 500.00$. Tartan Town has the Naills that I am looking at. Set 4 (Naill set 3). 2 859.00$. Gord's Highland Outfitters sells this set for 2 800.00$.

Nunawading Pipe Band out of Australia.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Seneca (BCE 3 - 65 CE)

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by
their fruits. -Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)

Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band received a 13th at this years worlds competition. They play an intro tune that is very cool, called, "The Calling". This is also the name of their CD they just published.

Boys.

School aged boys read everything but general fiction first. They read sci fi, history, war, fantasy, cars, sports, animals, jokes and cartoons first.

However in schools, all they seem to read is General Fiction. I think it is true that for free time reading they seem to be able to choose what they would like. But for storytime, although they may like the story, the librarian or teachers seem to choose fiction books. I know they have to reach the whole class but...

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -Herman Hesse

City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band

They have a nice CD

dasypygal (da-si-PYE-gul) adjective

Having hairy buttocks.

[From Greek dasy- (hairy, dense) + pyge (buttocks).]

A related word is dasymeter, an instrument for measuring the..., no, not that,
rather the density of gases. Another related word is callipygian, having a
beautiful behind.
-Anu

"Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways."
-Kahlil Gibran

facinorous (fuh-SIN-uhr-uhs) adjective

Extremely wicked.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

-Dalai Lama

There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

-Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939

Life's not too short. It's just that you're dead for so long.

O.k. I probably shouldn't be blogging work stuff, but to get rid of a piece of paper, I'll do a little bit.

"Music Services"
Kidsreads.com

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. -Plato

Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. -Charan Singh (1916-1990)

Don't you hate when you're writing a tune, and you want to put a D throw after something, and that makes you get stuck in composing any further. Maybe I have a passion for D throws. I play a light throw and used to love the way I play them, now... I kinda have a hunkerin to play a heavy through. I have even been known to throw one in now and then when nobody is listening.