A BOLO is a term that police officers use when looking for someone associated with some crime; it means Be On The Lookout.
Well I'd like to issue a BOLO for Bob Barker, TV game show host and weak minded animal rights advocate turned poacher. He stole from the Toronto zoo three elephants Toka, Thika and Iringa. He came up with some of his poaching minions, loaded the elephants into crates and took them by truck to California.
Bob was successful in his escapade but he is still fuming. He is saying that the Toronto Zoo has been uncooperative as he stole our elephants. When zoo staff, including a couple of veterinarians volunteered to accompany the elephants, I guess that was an example of not cooperating. After all, Bob Barker, a man who's resume is filled with hosting TV shows, knows more about elephants than an entire zoo filled with trained and dedicated animal experts .. doesn't he?
It was Bob's expertise that identified the horrible conditions under which the elephants lived in our zoo. He came up here from his land of sauna's and imported palm trees and said Gosh! Canada is cold! These elephants are from Africa! They can't live here!
Actually Bob most of elephants were born right here but you're from Hollywood, facts are something with which you light your cigars
Our zoo officials kindly disagreed with Bob's expert assessment (I think he say the temp the day he was here and was beseeching the audience to yell "Higher! Higher!") and pointed out new enclosures, a knowledge base that grows every year and the expertise (yeh like actual medical expertise) of the zoo vets
Well Bob would have none of that! He's a star damnit! A star! His instructions on how to spin a prize wheel were so eleoquent ...
So Bob went to Toronto City Council. Ah, Toronto public officials. A group of underqualified individuals who spend most of their time figuring out how to distract us from the fact that they really have no right to our money; one of the methods they use is to create out of thin air some "Facebook" crisis to distract us. So as they bungle public transit and pad their expense accounts, Hell yes! The elephants! The elephants! Let's help the elephants!
Even though before Bob showed up, no one thought the elephants needed help
So Bob did his magic with the council (and part of that magic may have a price tag on it who knows) and voila, we had an elephant crisis and the only way to solve it was to have a game show host poach the animals and take them to a sanctuary in California
That sanctuary by the way, is PAWS, a place of refuge for former performing elephants, that is the expertise of the keepers there. Um Bob, you do know the difference between a zoo and a circus ... don't you?
Well what Bob knows is that his vaunted stature as a guy who made his living out of mispronouncing people's names means his will must not be denied. When the zoo, in its methodical way, began to question the decision then once the decision was made try to figure out the very best way to do things, Bob stamped his feet crossed his arms and used his face on TV to defame Toronto and our zoo at every opportunity
Even now, after his poaching is a fait accompli, Bob is on TV every five seconds trashing the Toronto zoo. Damnit, they didn't fall to their knees and pee their pants in subjugation at his every utterance, what is wrong with them!
To be fair, the elephant's journey to California seemed to have gone very smoothly. The staff at PAWS relates that they've never seen elephants so relaxed and cooperative and they attributed that to the care and knowledge of the Toronto keepers. Yeh, the ones Bob is still slagging
As time has gone on I've become more critical of animals in captivity; there is a lot of evidence that tells us that overall it may not be the best thing. I've been to Seaworld in Niagra Falls and Florida and have never been totally comfortable with the whole performance aspect of it; intelligent animals like killer whales and dolphins have exhibited symptoms of psychosis that could be attributed to that very captivity
And elephants of course are very intelligent. There have been rough patches for the elephants at the Toronto zoo. These are huge animals whose nature is satisfied by large spaces in which to roam and graze; as good as the new elephant enclosure is, in Toronto, it ain't no savannah
But I daresay that the PAWS ain't no savannah either. What their future there will be I can't say. It is a private sanctuary, largely funded by our erstwhile, well meaning but completely noob-like poachers in Hollywood. It will be warmer than the Toronto zoo, no doubt but will it be better for the elephants?
The fact that our zoo is a public institution hurt it; decisions were made for these elephants by people, namely city council, who know nothing about elephants and nothing about common sense. But it also makes the zoo and its workers accountable. PAWS is a private sanctuary, to whom is it accountable?
I really do hope that the elephants will have a happy life there. They've been torn away from their family units, something terribly important to elephants, but they have each other and I hope they don't have to live the rest of their lives with just themselves and they can find a new family
Their elephant family here will miss them. Elephants mourn, we know this, they place powerful importance on their family, both as a unit and as individuals. And the elephants here have a large extended family, the thousands of people who have to the zoo over the years to marvel at these intelligent, emotional, beautiful animals
Will the elephants miss us? I know that we shall miss them
Monday, October 21, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
THANKS TO GIVE, GIVEN TO THANKS
What were you thankful for this past weekend, this past Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada
Were you thankful for the holiday itself? It's a day off and there is turkey. Seriously, do we need to search for something better than that?
Do you use this holiday, here in Canada an extension of the harvest tradition, as an opportunity to reflect, perhaps on this past year or even years previous, thinking of the benefits from that time or perhaps you even pause to thank to be alive, to breathe, to just be here ... Well if you're thankful for being here and eating turkey then you and I are on the same page
Actually this year, this Thanksgiving, I did not eat turkey. Don't worry, I intend to make up for that shortly. So I actually did do a bit of interspection but being me, it really extended to just that day, that moment, that occasion
Yeh, I'm thankful for Thanksgiving.
I was thankful for being in Pointe Au Baril Ontario at Nares Inlet, thankful for the water and the sky and the ancient powerful rocks and the trees twisted and shaped by the wind
I was thankful for a crazy border collie who looks upon the north as her own personal playground and why not, it's the world's largest dog park, not to mention the world's largest water bowl
I was also thankful for family and friends and a sunny day on a rock island in the middle of the day where no one had anything better to do than eat, play together and enjoy a warm autumn day
What are you thankful for
Monday, October 7, 2013
NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO 2013
Saturday night I became a street walker (yes it's come to that) Mind you, I wasn't alone. There were tens of thousands of us wandering the streets of Toronto, along many streets closed to traffic, the giant buildings empty and dark. But there was light and motion; a queen of the parade who was not a queen of a parade that never was.
A skyscraper built from bicycles that no one rides yet still move
An alley way was transformed into the mythical place where socks lost in the dryer go to hang out .. yes, that horrible pun but what else would you expect
The skyscapers of steel and glass were replaced by a tower made of wooden chairs, one person's version I suppose of a furnished lodging
This city is always lit at night but this night there were new lights, colored and moving and somewhat mysterious in their purpose
A city at night. A city filled with light and mystery and strangers wandering the street unite by a sense of "what is that" as as "what the fuck" A city transformed
Nuit Blanche 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013
JOHN CLEESE: OUR EVENING WITH A NOT QUITE DEAD GUY
John Cleese is dying. So he's doing a series of shows, to give all of us an opportunity to see him before his demise. The show is entitled Last Chance To See Me Before I Die
Not that he has some fatal disease, he's not dying right away ... but he is dying. Eventually. Some day. And perhaps there will be another chance to see him. He may do another show some day. Eventually. But still, he will die .. eventually .. so we went to see him
For someone who is dying (eventually) he looked, as he may say say "rather splendid". Alone on the stage with a projection screen hanging behind him, Cleese spent two hours regaling us with stories of his remarkable life in that concise, precise, perfectly modulated deliver that makes him One of the Funniest People on Earth
Cleese, as he informed us several times, is a writer. His entrance into show business was through his writing for comedy reviews while studying "maths" at Cambridge university. He wrote for David Frost's early comedy shows in Britain, he wrote of great deal of the Python stuff, he co-wrote Fawlty Towers, he wrote A Fish Called Wanda ...
All very impressive indeed. But none of that allays the fact that John Cleese walking through a door can make me fall down on my face giggling like an idiot .. which he once did on a British skit show from the 80's; the actors were doing some kind of Elizabethan sketch and Cleese walked on to the set, stood there in a door way, ate most of an apple then turned and walked away. To this day, one of the funniest things I've ever seen
OK maybe I have issues, like this should be a shock to anyone
Cleese's writing skills are certainly of an extremely high level. He talked extensively about "black humour" and humour that breaks taboos and crosses boundries. His experiences of 1950's England was that of an extremely conservative society whose focus was to never be seen to be controversial. He recalls seeing the Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe with Dudley Moore and Spike Milligan and feeling the liberation of satire, something Cleese would himself come to master.
He searched for the origins of his own fondness for dark humour. His mother was a self obsessed, perpetually depressed person who would list her fears and worries and go through them with her son point by point. Cleese noted that his mother lived through the entire 20th century and has witnessed both world wars, the Great Depression, the arms race, the space age ... and really didn't note any of it.
One of the times his mom was intoning her oft heard phrase "Maybe I should just die" Cleese suggested that he would call a "little man" in Fulton who he knew and the chap would come and kill his mom ... upon hearing this his mom paused for a long moment then broke out in laughter. From that point on when his mom got carried away with her moaning he would simply intone the the Little Man in Fulton and they would both break out laughing. He learned, from this, that making fun of the serious was the best way to survive it
Cleese liked to downplay his abilities as an actor. He talked about meeting Peter Sellers, who Cleese claimed to be the greatest comic actor he'd ever known, and described Seller's ability to mimic, not just mimic to become someone else. Cleese stated that when he tried to mimic someone it always sounded as if "that person was actually mimicing me"
But there is not doubt that Cleese not only possesses a talent for accents but has some of the best comic timing of anyone I've ever said. Coupled with his precise, clipped way of speaking, it makes him able to evoke laughter without seeming to try at all.
He also talked about the importance of luck in his career. He told the story about how Monty Python got to have their TV series. All of them had worked together in Cambridge then gone their separate ways. Graham Chapman and Cleese were working for David Frost along with Marty Feldman. Feldman was a writer on the show and Cleese told Frost that Marty should be on the show, as an actor. Frost's reply was "Put Marty on TV? Have you seen the way he looks?"
Indeed
At that time the other Pythons, Eric Idle and Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones were all working on a kids' TV show. Graham and Cleese decided they should all reunite and pitch their own skit comedy show to the BBC. Everyone agreed and off they went to see the man Cleese describes as the "god of BBC Light Entertainment" They all knew they were funny, they all had some idea of the kind of show they wanted to make but what they did not know was what the show would be about.
They were asked: "Will the show have sketches"
"Oh yes, sketches, lovely idea, we'll have sketches"
"Will there be music?"
"Music? Oh yes, well certainly, yes there will be music .. of some kind"
Cleese thought they were done for. They couldn't even describe what kind of show they would make or give one salient idea of what would be in it. But the "god" waved his hand and told them "Fine, we'll give you 13 episodes" And with the wave of a hand, the first show about nothing, and something completely different, was born
A good deal of the show was dedicated to discussing A Fish Called Wanda, a movie that Cleese not only wrote but starred in and, in my opinion, one of the funniest movies ever made. One thing I never knew about Cleese is besides doing "math" in college he also read for law at Cambridge, which probably explains his character in Wanda, a solicitor.
He explained that when he decided to make the movie he approached old school Brit film director Charles Crichton (Cleese also has co director credit on the film). When Crichton asked him what the film would be about, Cleese admitted that the only thing he had in mind was a scene that someone with a terrible stutter would have to tell someone else, something terribly important. Crichton said "Fine, as long as we have a scene where someone is squashed by a steamroller" And that was how one of the funniest movies of all time was born
He used Wanda as an example of his black humour. As they were making the movie a few concerns were raised: Would people rebel against using someone with a stutter as a focus of laughter (he explained that Michael Palin based his character's stutter on his own father) and the killing of the little dogs. After a test screening which Cleese was not allowed to be in the theatre, an old woman marched up to him and announced "The stuttering was bloody funny. And you should have killed more dogs"
Cleese told his stories, with the aid of clips from TV and movies, for two hours which was quite shocking to us, it barely seemed half that time. When I first read that Cleese was appearing in Toronto as part of a six city tour my first reaction was "I wonder why he's doing this." No, that's a total lie, my first reaction was "Holy crap, I'm going to get to see the funniest man alive!" But I still wondered why he was doing the tour. Cleese provided the answer with one word "Alimony. My ex wife got a settlement of 22 million dollars. I have two million left to go" And he glowered at us. I damn near threw money up on to the stage
So we sat through two hours, laughing to the verge of tears, as a dead man told us his life story. Thank you John Cleese. Long may you die
Not that he has some fatal disease, he's not dying right away ... but he is dying. Eventually. Some day. And perhaps there will be another chance to see him. He may do another show some day. Eventually. But still, he will die .. eventually .. so we went to see him
For someone who is dying (eventually) he looked, as he may say say "rather splendid". Alone on the stage with a projection screen hanging behind him, Cleese spent two hours regaling us with stories of his remarkable life in that concise, precise, perfectly modulated deliver that makes him One of the Funniest People on Earth
Cleese, as he informed us several times, is a writer. His entrance into show business was through his writing for comedy reviews while studying "maths" at Cambridge university. He wrote for David Frost's early comedy shows in Britain, he wrote of great deal of the Python stuff, he co-wrote Fawlty Towers, he wrote A Fish Called Wanda ...
All very impressive indeed. But none of that allays the fact that John Cleese walking through a door can make me fall down on my face giggling like an idiot .. which he once did on a British skit show from the 80's; the actors were doing some kind of Elizabethan sketch and Cleese walked on to the set, stood there in a door way, ate most of an apple then turned and walked away. To this day, one of the funniest things I've ever seen
OK maybe I have issues, like this should be a shock to anyone
Cleese's writing skills are certainly of an extremely high level. He talked extensively about "black humour" and humour that breaks taboos and crosses boundries. His experiences of 1950's England was that of an extremely conservative society whose focus was to never be seen to be controversial. He recalls seeing the Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe with Dudley Moore and Spike Milligan and feeling the liberation of satire, something Cleese would himself come to master.
He searched for the origins of his own fondness for dark humour. His mother was a self obsessed, perpetually depressed person who would list her fears and worries and go through them with her son point by point. Cleese noted that his mother lived through the entire 20th century and has witnessed both world wars, the Great Depression, the arms race, the space age ... and really didn't note any of it.
One of the times his mom was intoning her oft heard phrase "Maybe I should just die" Cleese suggested that he would call a "little man" in Fulton who he knew and the chap would come and kill his mom ... upon hearing this his mom paused for a long moment then broke out in laughter. From that point on when his mom got carried away with her moaning he would simply intone the the Little Man in Fulton and they would both break out laughing. He learned, from this, that making fun of the serious was the best way to survive it
Cleese liked to downplay his abilities as an actor. He talked about meeting Peter Sellers, who Cleese claimed to be the greatest comic actor he'd ever known, and described Seller's ability to mimic, not just mimic to become someone else. Cleese stated that when he tried to mimic someone it always sounded as if "that person was actually mimicing me"
But there is not doubt that Cleese not only possesses a talent for accents but has some of the best comic timing of anyone I've ever said. Coupled with his precise, clipped way of speaking, it makes him able to evoke laughter without seeming to try at all.
He also talked about the importance of luck in his career. He told the story about how Monty Python got to have their TV series. All of them had worked together in Cambridge then gone their separate ways. Graham Chapman and Cleese were working for David Frost along with Marty Feldman. Feldman was a writer on the show and Cleese told Frost that Marty should be on the show, as an actor. Frost's reply was "Put Marty on TV? Have you seen the way he looks?"
Indeed
At that time the other Pythons, Eric Idle and Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones were all working on a kids' TV show. Graham and Cleese decided they should all reunite and pitch their own skit comedy show to the BBC. Everyone agreed and off they went to see the man Cleese describes as the "god of BBC Light Entertainment" They all knew they were funny, they all had some idea of the kind of show they wanted to make but what they did not know was what the show would be about.
They were asked: "Will the show have sketches"
"Oh yes, sketches, lovely idea, we'll have sketches"
"Will there be music?"
"Music? Oh yes, well certainly, yes there will be music .. of some kind"
Cleese thought they were done for. They couldn't even describe what kind of show they would make or give one salient idea of what would be in it. But the "god" waved his hand and told them "Fine, we'll give you 13 episodes" And with the wave of a hand, the first show about nothing, and something completely different, was born
A good deal of the show was dedicated to discussing A Fish Called Wanda, a movie that Cleese not only wrote but starred in and, in my opinion, one of the funniest movies ever made. One thing I never knew about Cleese is besides doing "math" in college he also read for law at Cambridge, which probably explains his character in Wanda, a solicitor.
He explained that when he decided to make the movie he approached old school Brit film director Charles Crichton (Cleese also has co director credit on the film). When Crichton asked him what the film would be about, Cleese admitted that the only thing he had in mind was a scene that someone with a terrible stutter would have to tell someone else, something terribly important. Crichton said "Fine, as long as we have a scene where someone is squashed by a steamroller" And that was how one of the funniest movies of all time was born
He used Wanda as an example of his black humour. As they were making the movie a few concerns were raised: Would people rebel against using someone with a stutter as a focus of laughter (he explained that Michael Palin based his character's stutter on his own father) and the killing of the little dogs. After a test screening which Cleese was not allowed to be in the theatre, an old woman marched up to him and announced "The stuttering was bloody funny. And you should have killed more dogs"
Cleese told his stories, with the aid of clips from TV and movies, for two hours which was quite shocking to us, it barely seemed half that time. When I first read that Cleese was appearing in Toronto as part of a six city tour my first reaction was "I wonder why he's doing this." No, that's a total lie, my first reaction was "Holy crap, I'm going to get to see the funniest man alive!" But I still wondered why he was doing the tour. Cleese provided the answer with one word "Alimony. My ex wife got a settlement of 22 million dollars. I have two million left to go" And he glowered at us. I damn near threw money up on to the stage
So we sat through two hours, laughing to the verge of tears, as a dead man told us his life story. Thank you John Cleese. Long may you die
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
WORD ON THE STREET TORONTO: WHICH WORD DO WE WANT
The book or the reading of the book.
The word or the discussion of the book.
The book fair or the literary event
Collette and I have attended the Toronto version of Word on the Street for may years, many years. I remember when it was held on Queen St W, down by Much Music. It's been held at Queen's Park Circle for several years now and generally the location suits it well
There is more space in the Circle (a park basically) to accomadate tents for readings, author signings, presentations etc. And therein is a bit of a problem. I appreciate that Word is a place for all things literary, you can probably find an author you like and hear them read, there are many performances aimed at kids, from books for said kids. There have always been booths where authors give you the chance to talk to them and discuss their work
That is the Literary Event part of Word on the Street and even if don't always participate, I appreciate it. And I have been able to connect with authors and their work who otherwise may have remained a mystery to me
But there is another part to the festival; the book fair part of it. Collette and I used to pack several bags with us and pack them up, stuffing them with dozens of books got for extremely low prices. Big book stores and publishers would come and offer up hardcovers for a few bucks a pop; a great way to try books and authors unknown to you with very little risk
That part of Word on the Street has almost vanished. None of the big books stores bring their wares or if they do, they bring very little. Only one publisher brought deeply discounted books and not surprisingly, it was the most popular booth there
Word has always had a focus on kids, Collette used to stock her classroom with books for the year. Well, now it's hard to find a good selection of adult books and for all the kids books, most of them were only 10 or 20 % off .. which Collette can often find on Amazon
This year we barely filled one pack with books. I got some good deals on some graphic novels, Collette found a few things for her nieces and nephews but not much for her classroom; the prices matched what she could order through the Board with no need to transport. I ventured into the one cheap publisher book and came away with a few 3 dollar books but I swear I have bruises from the experiences
So the Literary Event lives and that's great. But the Book Fair is dying, so our annual fall trip to Word may well be expiring as well
At any rate, here's a little video
The word or the discussion of the book.
The book fair or the literary event
Collette and I have attended the Toronto version of Word on the Street for may years, many years. I remember when it was held on Queen St W, down by Much Music. It's been held at Queen's Park Circle for several years now and generally the location suits it well
There is more space in the Circle (a park basically) to accomadate tents for readings, author signings, presentations etc. And therein is a bit of a problem. I appreciate that Word is a place for all things literary, you can probably find an author you like and hear them read, there are many performances aimed at kids, from books for said kids. There have always been booths where authors give you the chance to talk to them and discuss their work
That is the Literary Event part of Word on the Street and even if don't always participate, I appreciate it. And I have been able to connect with authors and their work who otherwise may have remained a mystery to me
But there is another part to the festival; the book fair part of it. Collette and I used to pack several bags with us and pack them up, stuffing them with dozens of books got for extremely low prices. Big book stores and publishers would come and offer up hardcovers for a few bucks a pop; a great way to try books and authors unknown to you with very little risk
That part of Word on the Street has almost vanished. None of the big books stores bring their wares or if they do, they bring very little. Only one publisher brought deeply discounted books and not surprisingly, it was the most popular booth there
Word has always had a focus on kids, Collette used to stock her classroom with books for the year. Well, now it's hard to find a good selection of adult books and for all the kids books, most of them were only 10 or 20 % off .. which Collette can often find on Amazon
This year we barely filled one pack with books. I got some good deals on some graphic novels, Collette found a few things for her nieces and nephews but not much for her classroom; the prices matched what she could order through the Board with no need to transport. I ventured into the one cheap publisher book and came away with a few 3 dollar books but I swear I have bruises from the experiences
So the Literary Event lives and that's great. But the Book Fair is dying, so our annual fall trip to Word may well be expiring as well
At any rate, here's a little video
Friday, September 20, 2013
YOUR TRAGEDY IS BEING PACKAGED
Your tragedy is being packaged.
We'll let you know it's tragic. We'll create a rolling background of select images, images that we've selected, letting you know what your eyes should concentrate upon; don't worry, you require no effort, we've done this work for you.
We'll create a name key for the tragedy, just so you know what it is, and by creating this name what we've actually done is label it, so instead of just saying "The latest report on the bus crash near Ottawa" we'll call it OTTAWA BUS DISASTER ... we can't have you thinking about what may have happened here, our label will spare you that effort. Don't worry, not thinking required.
Every ad needs some music of course. Wait, did I say ad? Um, I meant news report, that's right, news report ... With a music behind it, nice dramatic music to catch your attention then tailing down to lush strings so you know you should be sad. We understand you may not know how to react to things so we'll do that work for you as well. This is a DISASTER this is a TRAGEDY so you are to feel SAD
There, isn't that easy?
We know you have a lot on your mind, other things may be happening in your life. But those things don't help us at all, we can't package those things and attract sponsorship. So we will keep this TRAGEDY foremost on your mind and we'll do that by playing our ad (and you know I really mean news story right) over and over; there may be nothing new to report on the story but market saturation is very important for a news story (you know I mean ad right)
Just sit back and stay tuned and wait for that first musical note, for the animated swirl of images as the package unfolds. Don't think about what the purpose of all this is, don't ponder upon how this is supposed to inform us or why a news story needs to hit more emotions than facts
That's our job. We'll do that for you
And don't worry about what other news may be happening. When it's worth your while, we'll let you know.
We have packages for that too
We'll let you know it's tragic. We'll create a rolling background of select images, images that we've selected, letting you know what your eyes should concentrate upon; don't worry, you require no effort, we've done this work for you.
We'll create a name key for the tragedy, just so you know what it is, and by creating this name what we've actually done is label it, so instead of just saying "The latest report on the bus crash near Ottawa" we'll call it OTTAWA BUS DISASTER ... we can't have you thinking about what may have happened here, our label will spare you that effort. Don't worry, not thinking required.
Every ad needs some music of course. Wait, did I say ad? Um, I meant news report, that's right, news report ... With a music behind it, nice dramatic music to catch your attention then tailing down to lush strings so you know you should be sad. We understand you may not know how to react to things so we'll do that work for you as well. This is a DISASTER this is a TRAGEDY so you are to feel SAD
There, isn't that easy?
We know you have a lot on your mind, other things may be happening in your life. But those things don't help us at all, we can't package those things and attract sponsorship. So we will keep this TRAGEDY foremost on your mind and we'll do that by playing our ad (and you know I really mean news story right) over and over; there may be nothing new to report on the story but market saturation is very important for a news story (you know I mean ad right)
Just sit back and stay tuned and wait for that first musical note, for the animated swirl of images as the package unfolds. Don't think about what the purpose of all this is, don't ponder upon how this is supposed to inform us or why a news story needs to hit more emotions than facts
That's our job. We'll do that for you
And don't worry about what other news may be happening. When it's worth your while, we'll let you know.
We have packages for that too
Sunday, September 8, 2013
MISS TERRA GOES COTTAGING
Life is hard, we all need a break.
An escape from the stress and routine of our daily lives. Here in Canada there is a long standing tradition of taking advantage of the wilderness that often lays close to our door, offering us some sense of tranquility and even peace, shedding our drudgery for sunlight and water and the wind in the evergreens.
Yeh, life is hard, especially for Miss Terra, so much stress that is derived from so many decisions that need to be made, like: Which bed should I take a nap on, or which stuffie needs to be tossed around the house and which ball (the orange and blue one or the blue and orange one) should I drop in somebody's life .. Damn, the pressure. A girl needs to escape it and get up to Springhaven Lodge on the Georgian Bay and let the wind flow through her fur and the water splash across her whiskers
A highly charged soccer match:
The new hybrid sport of soccer and water polo called Water Polo or in the vernacular: I'm gonna drown this soccer ball
And one must always make time for a rousing game of: Find the amphibian
One, of course, can not over concern oneself with all this physical activity, that would simply be boorish. One must take some time to be still and enjoy all of nature's bounty ...
... or one could simply obsess over one's frisbee, border collie style
And if you have concluded that the sole purpose of this post was to post more pics and videos of Terra playing up north .. well .. the proper blue blood response to that would have to be ... duh
An escape from the stress and routine of our daily lives. Here in Canada there is a long standing tradition of taking advantage of the wilderness that often lays close to our door, offering us some sense of tranquility and even peace, shedding our drudgery for sunlight and water and the wind in the evergreens.
Yeh, life is hard, especially for Miss Terra, so much stress that is derived from so many decisions that need to be made, like: Which bed should I take a nap on, or which stuffie needs to be tossed around the house and which ball (the orange and blue one or the blue and orange one) should I drop in somebody's life .. Damn, the pressure. A girl needs to escape it and get up to Springhaven Lodge on the Georgian Bay and let the wind flow through her fur and the water splash across her whiskers
Miss Terra is, of course, from a very high and rarified society. Much like the blue bloods (or more accurately wannabe blue bloods) who lounge in the million dollar mansions that command the islands which dot the Bay, this border collie concerns herself with the most erudite of social activities
Such as, Olympic javelin:
Or a rousing game of tennis:
A highly charged soccer match:
The new hybrid sport of soccer and water polo called Water Polo or in the vernacular: I'm gonna drown this soccer ball
And one must always make time for a rousing game of: Find the amphibian
One, of course, can not over concern oneself with all this physical activity, that would simply be boorish. One must take some time to be still and enjoy all of nature's bounty ...
... or one could simply obsess over one's frisbee, border collie style
And if you have concluded that the sole purpose of this post was to post more pics and videos of Terra playing up north .. well .. the proper blue blood response to that would have to be ... duh
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