The New Coffee Room

I don’t know how legal this is for you folks, but up here when our culdesac got hit hard and heavy (& the city wasn’t doing anything for us), all us neighbors pitched in and hired our own guy with a snow plow to do the street. We especially needed to clean up the exits from our driveways. Cash worked.

I haven’t been to Mexico since hurricane Odile washed away most of the resort I loved so much in Cabo. Then came the overpass hangings in 2017 and I think also 2019. News of missing people, other gruesome violence pretty sealed my decision to never return.

I know I’m not a colonist.
But as Canuck, I still apologize. That’s almost genetic.
UBC is a fine university. Good nurses and doctors graduate from there. I’d rather do medicine there or see a doctor who graduated from there than Toronto. B.C. is expensive though. We’ve a saying, “B.C.” -> “Bring Cash” .

Wow. That’s an impressive amount of snow. Go slow with the shovelling. Or just wait it out if you can. Heart attacks can and do happen.

Why did you folks tour UBC?
Sorry of the signage, btw. (We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

Tremendous spirit here for the game. All 3 pubs opened real early for the game!

@Renauda said

I feel exactly the same way about the righteous and remorseless Maple MAGAts who are currently infecting this province with their divisive performance politics and promoting the breakup of this country.

Quite. I need to remember that term.

Congratulations!

Labor rates increase. 100K from now could make for an expensive repair. Can you predict what your 135K Pilot might be worth then? I get anxious to get a new Honda once my yearly labor + parts costs approach trade in/resale value. I think Ive purchased 10 new Hondas in my life time.

Just had this done on my 2014 Ridgeline. At 140K. I don’t have the invoice in front of me but it was expensive. Truly, I was getting nervous driving with it for so long. @lufins-dad , I think I’d ask myself how long I plan to keep my (new) 35K 2021 Honda Pilot. Having the belt etc replaced now while the engine is out is quite appealing. The labor costs otherwise are real high for this. It also plays well with its resale/trade in value. When I traded in a 2016 CRV last year, that timing belt change question was near the top of a list of questions they asked.

Wow.

Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. I remember leg cramps when I ran lots of miles. Hydration helped.

Convenience is everything.
Beautiful views Jodi!

That is tres cool.

@jon-nyc Thanks for posting that. It’s a good article.

@horace please continue to post pics. Little Huahua is bringing back good memories.
Speaking of disappearing kitties, when we moved into our old place we released the beasts and all 3 managed to find places to duck and hide out. Our skinny one (the brown classic tabby pic above) discovered a void accessed through a built-in bookcase that extended behind our gas fireplace exiting to the bookcase on the other side. I panicked. No one could see how wide or narrow or tall that space was or how the pipe connected to the outside of the house. But he exited. He was just being a cat. We then blocked both bookcases with books.

PM Carney’s speech was excellent.

Such wonderful news!! She’s sweet ️ I’m so glad you got her. What a long flight she had.

Everytime I see a @george-k I get excited because I think he’s back , but then I get sad .

Hmmm. I’ll do this. I need to find the right person to sell to.