W00t! Gerrit's back. How the hell are we?

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:27pm

I hope you're all well and flourishing. It's Labour Day Weekend. My summer was busy and yours? I've been gardening in the friggin' heat of climate change. The plants have gone magoo: they love tropical Ontario. I have a salad forest, several beds of vegie jungle, runaway sunflowers, and oh the tomatoes. Be happy for me: Ive got ten new rosa rugosa plants - from seed. More hello below.

I see you good folks have kept up the fine traditions of yore: first post I read was Johnny threatening to shut the whole thing down for the weekend if some unnamed individuals didn't behave :=) My alibi is watertight: I just got here again...
Canadian street gangs_0.jpg

You poor American dears are still having your never-ending elections. Canada's politics this summer has been filled with endless photos of our shirtless PM. Next he'll be on Magic Mike :=) Our general feeling is, long as he wears a shirt inside parliament, it's all good. Oh yes, and we voted to make the Loon our national bird. And we changed a sexist line in our national anthem: no more "in all thy sons command." Now the true patriot love is "in all of us command." Sensible change, eh? (It was a parting gift from MP Mauril Bélanger, just before his untimely death.)

Canadian kitties moose_0.jpg

I hope to write some Resilience posts again. See if the regulars wanna talk personal and local resilience again :=) I think I'll add some stuff on postmodern spirituality to the nuts and bolts stuff. And more on protest music. BTW, I learned a lot about eavestroughs this summer. (Apparently, they're not called "gutters" in Canada. Those only run underneath streets here.

Peace be with us (so that Johnny would keep the site up :=),
gerrit

Tags: 
Canada
resilience
Share
up
0 users have voted.

Comments

Submitted by dkmich on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:30pm

We are ready for the end of the world and need some survival skills. Hope you enjoyed.

up
0 users have voted.
—

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by elenacarlena on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:34pm
elenacarlena's picture

As your PM. If we did, we'd see a whole lot more solidarity. Sigh.

Welcome back and love the pics!!

up
0 users have voted.
—

Please check out Pet Vet Help, consider joining us to help pets, and follow me @ElenaCarlena on Twitter! Thank you.

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:54pm
Gerrit's picture

up
0 users have voted.
—

Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

Submitted by elenacarlena on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:23pm
elenacarlena's picture

you haven't been here. In case anyone's interested, today is the last day before prices increase! http://caucus99percent.com/content/pre-labor-day-sale-one-kind-cartoons

up
0 users have voted.
—

Please check out Pet Vet Help, consider joining us to help pets, and follow me @ElenaCarlena on Twitter! Thank you.

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:36pm

great to have you back, man, I was just thinking of you.

Looking forward to some new Resilience material, that is some of the best stuff c99p has to offer.

Peace...

up
0 users have voted.
Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:53pm
Gerrit's picture

been restless the whole summer or just recently? Don't answer that :=)
Gary Larson The chickens are restless.jpeg

Yes, the need for resilience has only increased, no surprise there. Folks in La learned the hard way that climate change is real and it will bombify your summer monsoon rains all to hell from here on out. (But what's the bet they'll all just rebuild in situ?)

The NYT just learned about it herself. They're running a coastal flooding article to welcome Post-TS Hermine: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-gl...

All politics will soon really be local.
Cheers,

up
0 users have voted.
—

Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 5:43pm
gulfgal98's picture

I think if we here at C99 want to change the world at our own levels, what we learn from Resilience is invaluable!

Welcome back Gerrit! Preved

up
0 users have voted.
—

Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Timmethy2.0 on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:38pm

up
0 users have voted.
—

Beware the bullshit factories.

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:39pm
Gerrit's picture

hot. Speaking of the end of the world, Simon Pegg's 2013 movie of the same name came on Netflix this summer and I nearly died laughing :=)

I hope you've had a good summer yourself!

up
0 users have voted.
—

Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 1:59pm
Unabashed Liberal's picture

you picking up where you left off on your excellent series. And, the timing is perfect, with the race finally coming close to an end.

(I'm probably the least well-informed member on 'things environmental,' but, I very much enjoyed learning from you.)

Also, I've wondered how your lovely pup is doing. Wink

See ya!

Mollie

“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit, and, therefore, to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)

National Mill Dog Rescue (NMDR) - Dogs Available For Adoption

Update: Misty May has been adopted. Yeah!

Misty May - NMDR

up
0 users have voted.
—

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:37pm
Gerrit's picture

animal rescue. Thanks for asking after Lady the Wonder Dog. She's 3 years and flourishing.
Lady face.jpg
I hope you're keeping well and the summer was good to you. We'll talk!

up
0 users have voted.
—

Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 9:26pm
Unabashed Liberal's picture

up
0 users have voted.
—

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by MarilynW on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:00pm
MarilynW's picture

I don't care what he wears or doesn't wear. He is so much following the footsteps of Obama. Likeable and attractive, full of promises that he will not keep. Lovely family too, like Obama. But check out his appointments. For our number one issue and therefore ministry. The ministry of Environment and Climate Change he appointed a friend trained in "human rights and social justice." She failed her first test at a press conference in Paris. It was embarrassing. She also spent $6,600 for photographs at the Paris summit. She is very good looking but this is our tax money.

As it is Canada's not ready to sign a Paris agreement yet. Instead, this fall, Trudeau is looking at carbon pricing which means carbon tax or cap n trade. Cap 'n' Trade is a boondoggle, it means industry will pay to pollute by buying offsets in undeveloped countries wether those countries really want that or not.

up
0 users have voted.
—

To thine own self be true.

Submitted by elenacarlena on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:20pm
elenacarlena's picture

All we get are "But Hillary gave speeches about women and children" distractions.

And Lord knows, no one wants to see Trump with his shirt off!!!!!!!!!

up
0 users have voted.
—

Please check out Pet Vet Help, consider joining us to help pets, and follow me @ElenaCarlena on Twitter! Thank you.

Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:04pm
riverlover's picture

Underground eavestroughs? Buried at the ends?

Are you under construction with kids' house(s)?

up
0 users have voted.
—

Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Submitted by Gerrit on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 2:51pm
Gerrit's picture

the summer was good to you and that all is well with you and yours.

Hah-hah, sorry, didn't mean to be confusing. The spring I was all about getting big ole water totes for rain barrels. As I looked at the gutters - sorry, eavestroughs :=), I realized it all had to be replaced before I get to rain barrels. Now we have bigger eavestroughs (with perforated covers) working at better angles to help with the bigger rains we get these days. More to follow at Resilience soon :=)

Sadly, the girls split up and my daughter's earthship plans got a bit delayed. Life, eh? We'll get there.

up
0 users have voted.
—

Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 4:50pm
Lookout's picture

This summer it was hot in the deep south, and we're dry again. Tree leaves are drooping. The summer garden is about done, but lettuce, onions, greens are going in for fall. Still have to dig sweet taters, but we'll give 'em another couple of weeks or so.

All the best...

up
0 users have voted.
—

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 6:15pm
Bollox Ref's picture

is a good antidote to pretty much anything on the internet.

Putting stuff away for winter soups.

up
0 users have voted.
—

Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 8:40pm
Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

just in time

we are, I think, both dealing with the pain of what we just came through, and gearing up for what's next.

up
0 users have voted.
—

"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 09/04/2016 - 9:36pm
mimi's picture

so now I have a "go-to" guy for that. Wink

up
0 users have voted.
Submitted by mhagle on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 2:09am
mhagle's picture

Today I finished starting about 150 seeds for fall/greenhouse/winter gardens. Climate change was a happy thing for some gardeners in Texas this year. The key is you have to plant way early and cover for frost several times.

up
0 users have voted.
—

Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 3:18am
Raggedy Ann's picture

Where ya been, buddy! I've missed you and glad you're back! More resilience articles, please. The site needs some great distractions and that is number one! So good to have you back! Drinks

up
0 users have voted.
—

"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by LeChienHarry on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 3:52am
LeChienHarry's picture

Resilience Library after you were gone. Now I'll be thinking of more. I'll be sooooo glad when this election is over.

Such terrible choices unless you think outside the box. Hope enough do.

up
0 users have voted.
—

You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce

If you can donate, please! POP Money is available for bank-to-bank transfers. Email JtC to make a monthly donation.