Arts & Life

Spill the Beans: Howdy neighbour!

Last weekend, our neighbours asked us to chore their animals while they were away. This is another thing that neighbours do. We’ll be away this summer and we’ll need someone to check up on, feed and water our chickens. And likely, it will be one of our neighbours either repaying a favour or hoping that we’ll help them out somewhere down the road. Read More
Arts & Life, City & Politics

Pride weekend for Winnipeg

Sunday's rally begins at 11 a.m. on the grounds of the Legislature, the parade commences at noon, and the weekend's festivities at the Forks run until 6 p.m. A ticketed closing ceremony party is also being held on Sunday night at CanadInns' Metropolitan event centre. Read More
Arts & Life

Spill the Beans: Killing frost

It is hard to lose plants. You plant, water, weed. You prepare the beds so they’ll grow strong and produce much food for your family (and the army for whom I am, apparently, currently growing my garden). But sometimes, despite your best efforts, the plants still die or get mowed over. Or freeze. Read More
Arts & Life

Spill the Beans: The greenhouse is a dangerous place

So I was just going to “pop” in to the other greenhouse, that’s sort of on my way home from work. And this is how it goes. There’s something about all of those lovely green plants and cases full of seeds that I just can’t resist. All of that growing potential to feed SO. MANY. PEOPLE. Read More
Arts & Life

Spill the Beans: Growing up so fast

As you may remember, just over two weeks ago, I got chicks. And they were adorable. But you would NOT BELIEVE how fast these birds have grown. Like, I would check them before I went to bed and then first thing in the morning, I would swear they had doubled in size. So as you can imagine and as you can see from the photo below, they are rapidly outgrowing my bathtub. Read More