Captured a funny moment yesterday with Nanuq asleep on her back on the futon but the moment one goes about to leave or rustles in the food cupboard the eyes open!
Month: March 2013
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It's a dog's life...funny moments!
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Fountain pens...do you use one?
Do you recognize this and when if anytime have last used one? Know how to refill?Sitting on my desk for a year or two, this is my father's fountain pen, a Parker 51, my dad was a lawyer in the 60s and 70s,.The Parker company has been around for quite a while and the new ink is a blue/black, picked up from Staples. Re-filling simple with internal squeeze mechanism. Actually did two handwritten letters recently.Some of you, no doubt, remember it was grade four when we were allowed to write with pen and ink, in those wooden desks with holes for ink wells,You may have had the fountain pens at school with the insertable cartridges....and messy for little hands.Grad student friend said..I have a pair of fountain pens and their main use is for scribbling, drawing chemical structures, jotting down ideas. and taking notes during seminars! And the Safaris come with their own refill mechanism (a converter) or cartridges.Refilling the pen? There are a few different types with regard to the filling mechanism: http://captainchang.com/pens/filling.html
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The blogger above is a collector of fountain pens and like this comment.." Many pen aficionados will tell you about the romance of using obsolete writing implements, about how it forces them to slow down and think, about how it provides a much needed psychological break from this hectic Electronic Age, and that this alone is reason enough to use a fountain pen.
Poppycock. If the above reasons aren't enough, you certainly shouldn't be swayed by these warm and fuzzy emotional appeals. My pens aren't for writing the Great American Novel, they get used for grocery lists, scribbling on scrap paper, meeting notes, doodles, and credit slip signing. This is hardly the dignified image of slow elegant writing in a bygone era. They are easier to write with than ballpoints (for me), and that's good enough."I am unlikely to take up this collection hobby but the research has been interesting. -
What are your memories dear readers?
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IFSS World Championships
What an action packed shot...taken by Nathalie Fortierfrom
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www.facebook.com/ifssalaskaIFSS World Championships 2013, North Pole, AK.
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An Albertan & Canadian, definitely a northern gal. Social worker by profession, this blog has included some of my work over 10 years in Nunavut from 2002 on. Passionate about slowing down & taking time to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors or kindness in relationships as gifts & blessings; injustices against children in situations beyond their control; my faith; Nature, experiencing the outdoors whether cycling, walking. x-c skiing or gardening, my dogs, capturing on film God's beauty, experiencing life intensely & with the senses, richness of late afternoon light, wind in my hair cycling with my dog on a beach road, couching inches from an arctic flower or alpine lichen to capture it with my camera, insight of a student's new learning, a good conversation over a coffee.
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