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Editors warning …

This post is not meant to be a complete guide to poison safety. We only want to draw attention to the observance. More attention to poison safety then what is published here is required.

Some Black Berries can be poisoned,. You need to be aware of the colours of berries and other traits to be confident to eat them.


“Stay away from berries on plants with spines, bitter smells, or milky sap.
 In general, the following plants are not safe for humans to eat, including the berries. You should check for:”

According to Wiki Help here is a start for your diligence:

  • Milky or odd-colored saps.
  • Berries or nuts in pods and bulbs
  • Bitter or soapy taste
  • Spines or small pointy hairs
  • Pink, purple, or black spurs.
  • Three-leaved growth pattern (like poison ivy)[1]

Animals in the fall can be drunk..

The frost can ferment berries in fall and winter making large animals eating them drunken visitors.

Bear scat, Merritt BC and Mountain Ash berries,
Mountain Ash are usually in peoples yards .
File Photo KDG

On this Day: September 29th 480 BC

The battle of Salamis’; Persians defeated by Greeks .

Trans Mountain Expansion Update…

The TMX organisation took part in the UBCM, Union of British Columbia Municipalities Convention this September.

Ian Anderson, Trans Mountain president hosted a virtual breakfast for 23 mayors of impacted communities through Microsoft teams.; this was the sixth breakfast TMX has participated in at the

UBCM annual conventions.

A matched donation to the Red Cross, Registered Fire Appeals Fund was made by TMX in support of the wildfire situation during the fire season.

10,000 workers engaged…

Pipe for oil field
File: Photo KDG

On this Day: September 28th 1825

The first passenger breaks the 15 MPH barrier, causing fear.

Surgeries up against covid-19 bumping, ( over 5000 in most recent reporting range.)

World wide conditions changing daily. Appointments for Covid-19 use for international travel in flux.

Regions in BC drawing specific outbreak restriction remedies ( Fraser Health, including gathering limits)

Vaccinations still the front line remedy strategy.

Care to your neighbours health for ordinary care ( against Covid-19 bumping)depends on you.

One path forward Vaccinations:(Health Minister), questions will be answered.

Doses nearing 8 million in BC…

Air ambulance sitting at air field .
Health care takes a lot of support from many sources,
including you keeping your own. File photo KDG

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Haiku, Youku, we all Ku…

 Loves on this morning.

Raise a standard,  into the wind,

Doves fly to me, bring peace. KDG

Wind of Change,,,

TGIF- Happy National Punctuation Day…

Suffering is such sweet sorrow…

Today is National Punctuation Day, a day not to be on the wrong side of a gerund. Have a blast you can go back to Poetic Licence on Monday.

On this Day: September 24th 1975

The South West face expedition reaches Mt Everest peak.

Laoise

Cleo has been traveling the world for three years,
covering an estimated 40,000 miles File Photo

Have a good weekend! : weekending is good!

Freedom is not anti mandate…

Freedom is not an anti mandate.

Washington state is being sued by anti-vaccination interests. The State of Washington is mandating health workers to get covid-19 shots. The governor is saying that it is not unreasonable to require the workers to protect the health of the people they treat. The basis tenant  of jurisdiction remains true, that jurisdiction is the rule for the rule.

Freedom is an assault when it is the rule of the tenant over the owner. Or the owner over the tenant’s person, we get that. And so does history, as it unfolded in violent and terrible loss when lines are crossed.

Want to be asked, not told…

So peoples  ancestors fought to get jurisdiction for their freedom and overtime got some. We know that, however since a sense of place is more than legal rankling over jurisdiction, they both have merit. 

Jurisdiction cloaked by exclusive right is, at first glance attractive. However, the sense of place seems more inclusive. Yes, it makes you want to invite another to your liberty, a broader community, and give and take. So what is the difference between the two? They both make you do something, one seems to slip by unrewarded and the other generates pride and defensiveness. Why is that? When is it right?

Well, let’s just say defensive actions are not neighborly. Maybe it’s that simple! When you add mutual interests to the mix, its sells.

So what is the mutual interest in vaccines, for some, it’s a passing statement that blames the industry for taking  profit, or some other inconvenience Then a comment becomes an argument and away we go. So what is the answer to that, there is none, it’s a choice and you can choose not to as well.

Non withstanding a man with an experience is better off than one with an argument, that ‘won’t wash, unless the experienced is the one living in strife for so long that he never wants to see it again. That’s only happened completely a few times, so excuse us that apprentice in the endeavor, of whatever that is. Remember all those people that died and got radiation in the WW II atomic bombs drops? There was one victim that got his leukemia into remission along with a lot of burns. So that’s the answer next time you want to argue that the pandemic is good for something, and you need to be concerned, neighbor, it’s you that will survive like the Hiroshima cancer guy. 

Look around and survey the depth and breadth of your realm, you may be the only one there. And have burned and are in a lonely jurisdiction, in a crowd, a crowd of those ghosts of strife, and with a mandate for strife.

Peace out PP

On this Day: September 23rd 1806

Lewis and Clark return from explorations for the northwest passage.

First Day of Fall, September Equinox.

Fall colors, file photo KDG

Say Good Bye to Summer

The fall equinox marks the end of summer, it can be anywhere from September 21st to 24th, there has not been a September 21st equinox for thousands of years. this highlights the weight of time that went in to the orbit cycles and its consistency

Twenty one past noon, British Columbia

At 3:21 PM Eastern time the earth will enjoy 12 hrs light and 12 hours dark as the days start to move to the Winter Solstice, then the northern hemisphere tips its full 23 degrees away from the sun making the shortest daylight in that 24 hour cycle on December 21st 2021, in 91 days.

On this Day :September 22 1948

Candy drops begin in the Berlin airlift.

Opinion

The Trans Mountain pipeline gained some more credibility with a Canadian electorate having the opportunity to discuss and decide on the platforms of political parties carbon plans, which included net zero by 2050.

The pipeline brings oil sand products to the coast and is squarely in the public interest in generating the revenue neutral income and incentives to bring down emissions by the registered UN convention of net zero by 2050.

Revenue neutral means that income to government must reduce tax’s or fees elsewhere. Most likely green incentives.

The 30% cap and trade on emissions has the potential to create capital in existing industrial entities, greener capital, and updated capital that may have a net zero effect on other industries as they produce into the GDP.

Leave it in the ground…

The leave it in the ground idea was some what muted by the discourse that produced a minority government on September 20th 2021. This released the great Canadian imperative, the potential for reasonable compromise amongst reasonable people as they pursue the constitution purpose for Canada; peace order and good government, always, and in particular during the 44th federal parliaments time.

Original asperations in 2013 video, outlining proposal.

We are not telling the reader anything that they have not had opportunity to hear. As they give leave to those they have elected to carry out the business of parliament to continue. We are not government by plebiscite but responsible government with the option to call for elections if confidence in that of a time of working on our behalf loses it shine. So let’s enter the rest of our own business for at least 2, 4 or 5 years.

On this Day: September 21st 1938

The Great Hurricane of 1938 strikes long island NY, killing upwards of 700.

Pipe for oil field
File :Photo KDG

No public health exclusions noted for getting vaccinated by people who have:

Pregnancy issues..

Breast feeding

Have had long Covid-19

Who have had Covid-19

Bonnie Henry says that there is an advantage to all people to be vaccinated. She also says that there is vaccination coming to children aged 6-11.

The health ministry says that 13 percent of BC people remain unvaccinated as of today. Contact tracing in effect.

TGIF- Merritt Naturally…

On this Day: September 17th 2001

The New York Stock exchange opens after the 911 event.

Butterfly, UTM

On the walk still alive ..File. Photo KDG

Life has its challenges.

Between here and there is a gas.

Today is the international day for the preservation of the ozone layer. the chemical make up is 0;, it is called trioxygen sometimes. The element is blueish in colour and it stinks. The primary value to us is a filter for harmful UV rays.

On this Day ‘September 16th 1880

The Corneal Sun prints it’s first issue in Ithaca New York.

Happy National Thank You Day!

Thanks for everything, everyone!

Something is flowering,

File photo KDG

You are great but just a little underappreciated.

Email this to anyone!

On this Day: September 15th 1958

New Jersey train wreak.