Meet Regan, our eight-year-old boy. Actually, he’s our only boy.
Some people would say this is a posed portrait. I mean, he is looking at the camera after all. But if you knew Regan, you’d know that this is who he is.
He is full of energy. He is the most spontaneous of our children. One minute he will be sitting quietly reading, and the next he is running the length of the house yelling at the top of his longs while flailing his arms.
That’s Regan.
This April, the City of Lethbridge conducted it’s annual census. Yesterday, they published the results.
Here is a summary:
The new population as of April was 85,492. At 30,489, the Westside now has the most people of the three areas.
Growth for the city over 2008 was 1.8%. The Westside growth rate was the highest at 2.75%.
From Grammar Girl:
A complement—that’s m-e-n-t—is a noun that completes meaning (1). Take the sentence “She is my sister.” The words “my sister” are the complement. There’s no agreement problem in that sentence, it’s all singular, but what about a sentence like this: “The two girls ate their sandwich”? Does this mean the girls shared one sandwich or did they each have a sandwich?
This post is part of the Canadian Style series.
8.06 Block format quotations
Do not enclose in quotation marks a block quotation set off from the text. It does require indentation, single spacing, and double spacing above and below.
This post is part of the Canadian Style series.
12.03 Words commonly misused or confused: un- and non-
Un- means “opposite of”, whereas non- means “other than”. Compare “un-Christian conduct” and “non-Christian religions”.
Shortly after arriving at work this morning, I looked out the window and saw a brand new fawn, maybe a day or two old.
It was lying in the grass, where I assume its mother had left it. A buck was coaxing it along by licking and pawing at it. It would get up, move a few steps, then lie back down.
The buck kept coaxing it.
There were some plumbers near by working outside. I can only assume the buck saw them as a threat and tried moving the fawn.
I installed a new sidewalk in my backyard this spring, and have been slowly dismantling my old sidewalk since it doesn’t lead to the back door or the back gate. Last night, when I lifted up the concrete slab, I found an ant nest.
In this photo, you can see all four stage of ant life: eggs, larvae, pupae and adults. I thought it was really cool, so I snapped a couple of shots.
I had never seen ant larvae or pupae before.
The adults sure had a heck of a time moving the larvae and pupae though. I didn’t check this morning to see if they had been successful.
