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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 7h

How about our Thanksgiving? A day off...and I can probably move some cables and boxes around as part of a painting project.

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 16h

Six months after the election the Cons should be pumping up buyer's remorse--dang why didn't we send PP to Ottawa and then the White House? Instead there's this collective feeling of "Whew! Dodged a bullet. That would have been embarassing." Thanks for (another) great article!

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 1d

It's Thanksgiving week-end and folks in Edmonton are driving like turkeys. Be careful! #yegtraffic

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 1d

WTI Crude Oil is at $59/barrel 😮

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 1d

Always good to ketchup on Alberta news....

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

Project ‘61 was “Moral Decay in Our Society”. It would be amazing and ambitious for CBC to reboot a 2025/26 version. @kathleenpetty.bsky.social

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

Noir Garbage Bags? Cleaning up this town is an admirable challenge especially in a neighbourhood with all the personality of a paper cup. This town has smells strong enough to build a garage on and the legacy trash is about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake. #noir

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

What a schmozzle! Timely and excellent analysis by @robsonfletcher.com ...and yes, we do live in a democracy where transparency is a prerequisite to healthy public dialogue.

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

I exercised my franchise! (It was somewhat flabby...) I voted in the Edmonton civic election, Ward Nakota Isga. Staff were organized and friendly. Impressed by the turn-out for advanced polls. Heard a common refrain, "Can't complain unless you participate!"

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

#gullibleAlbertans

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

What about "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"?

When Amanda brought the Courtleigh baby home from the hospital, she didn't foresee that Eunice Powell, Olive's mother, would arrive at Honeymoon House with the statement that she would take the child to live with her. The last 20 minutes have been frantic...

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 2d

Just got to tune in to "Ironized Yeast Program, Real Life Drama" 📻🎭

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣🤣

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 3d

You say you’re not emotionally invested…. 🤔

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 3d

Walnut ketchup! I guess it’s one of those “if you know, you know” things.

Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 3d

If you're going to the store, please pick up some walnut ketchup and soluble ditto for me

Wellcome Collection
between 1890 and 1899

Label printed in black on white paper. Text is below a coat of arms featuring a lion and a unicorn inside an arched double line border.

Text:
FROM
E. T. PROSSER, (late Hitchcock,)
BY APPOINTMENT TO THE GARRISON,
7, HEAD STREET, COLCHESTER.
Sauce for Gravy browning Currie Powder
Anchovy Essence
Indian Soy
Salad Oil
Lemon Pickle
Chili Vinegar
Pickles
Capers
Vinegar
Spices
Mustard
GENUINE
Cayenne Pepper
Soluble ditto
White and Black Pepper
Essence Almonds
Ginger
Lemon
Candied Lemon
Orange and Citron Peels
Isinglass
ARROW ROOT, AND OTHER DOMESTIC ARTICLES.

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 3d

Would you believe a cut-and-paste into a spreadsheet? 😳 Weak sauce I know but I can still do searches by key 🔑 words.

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 3d

Alberta tends to have hyperbole when it comes to our "pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps" rhetoric. The then "tar sands", now "oil sands' were floundering 50 years ago and were bailed out by no less than...Alberta, Ontario, and [yes for real] Federal tax dollars. www.nytimes.com/1975/02/05/a...

Canada to Invest $ 1 .4‐Billion To Save Tar‐Sands Oil Project (Published 1975)

www.nytimes.com

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 4d

Yes Virginia, there is a Sanity Claus

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 4d

If you did have an emotional investment, it just dropped like the price of winter wheat in July. 😳

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 4d

Harrumph 🧐 Some curlers can’t get a house while others get a mansion.

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 4d

DS: I'm the most Canadian
PM C: Glad to hear it. I'm guessing you were the first to sign the #foreverCanada petition with @lukaszukab.bsky.social
DS: Trying to get there but there's this pipeline thing....
PM C: Understood. And of course, Alberta doesn't have American booze on the shelves?

oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 4d

Urbana is in Ohio, but has relatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d

For working-class kids, the path to the middle class Is vanishing. Returning to my Ohio hometown showed me why, Beth Macy writes.

What Happened to My Hometown?

The fraying of my family and the Ohio we once knew

bit.ly

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 5d

The Supreme Court will be wearing black for the hearing.

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 5d

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oldmikey.bsky.social @oldmikey.bsky.social · 5d

The problem was the ermine-skin fur. Ermine is a kind of weasel. Unfortunately, ermine-skin shrinks over time. It’s quite embarrassing 😳 to be wearing a fur that results in, “Pop, goes the weasel!”

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