What Animal Eats Impatiens Only?

a picture of an opossum

After the second week of attacks on my impatiens, I started asking neighbours if they were suffering a loss of flowers, but nope!

One neighbour claimed that even the rabbits have been leaving his veggie garden alone this year.

Many of my neighbours must have thought I was crazy, I mean, what animal would want to eat impatiens only, right?

…though whatever it was, it did eat off the tops of white daisies that had already gone to seed.

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Decadent Diet Birthday Cake – Black Magic Cake

3 chocolate cupcakes iced and decorated with Smarties used as a header image

My girlfriend from grade school is on a diet and she’s doing spectacularly well so I don’t want to hinder her progress. But, it’s her birthday and we like to celebrate our birthdays with chocolate cake.

When we were kids, my mother decorated one of my birthday cakes on a budget… she used Smarties. From that day on, when invited to my birthday parties, my friends would always ask anxiously if my mother was making chocolate cake with Smarties on it, again this year. Thus a tradition got started.

Getting back to my girlfriends birthday cake, I had a choice… to make Pamela a chocolate cake that would only add temptation to break her progress (not a choice!)… or make her cupcakes instead.

Cupcakes won out because they can be frozen for later use… thus my title “Decadent Diet Birthday Cake.”

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Is It Any Wonder Why Highschool Bullying Has Become An Epidemic?

bullying in all caps used as a header image

Oh, how clearly I remember the highschool I attended. It was a rural highschool, located in a ‘not so well off’ financially-speaking, area in southern Ontario. Oh, and how the “rich kids” would be standing in the hallways every morning… in two groups, ready and waiting to intimidate us “poor kids” as we passed by them on our way to first class.

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