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Rey-A-Day#89, Red Haired Nude I, watercolour, 6x12, April 1/10

 

Seen, on Pine Ave, March 31/10

 

Rey-A-Day#88, Red Haired Nude, watercolour, 6x12, March31/10

 

Due to the ice shortage, seal pups are being washed up on Canadian beaches..

 + what is the Canadian government doing about it?  

Support the Harb Seal Bill. Go here.

 

Rey-A-Day#87, A Tree Grows in Vancouver VI, watercolour, 9x12, March 29/10

 

The mouthpieces of Esso, Imperial Oil, etc, who pose as the ruling Conservative Party of Canada...

  

have instigated an even larger seal death quota this year even though there is not enough ice + the pups are drowning + ending up on the beaches of PEI!!!!  Why?  So they can keep pretending there is no global warming?  ARG! 

 

  
 

Foto #86, 2:58:21, 2:58:25, 2:58:12, March 28/10

 Dear Office québécois de la langue française...

 

Rey-A-Day#87, A Tree Grows in Vancouver VI, watercolour, 9x12, March 29/10

 

If it's Sunday, it must be the season finale of Heartland, CBC at 7 in Canada

 

Foto #85, 11:11:17,3:19:51, March 27/10

Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha 
Val-deri,Val-dera. 
My knapsack on my back.

 

Rey-A-Day#86, A Tree Grows in Vancouver V, watercolour, 9x12, March 28/10

 

Richmond, near the Fraser River (+ airport) March 26,4:43:41

 

Foto #84, 5:38:43, March 25/210

 

Rey-A-Day#85, A Tree Grows in Vancouver IV, watercolour, 9x12, March 2710

 Okay, I took this pic at night so the colour is off, maybe.  Will retake it in the day to see the diff.

Snow, Vancouver style...

 

can I have some more fat with those fries?

 

My little brother Rene, who is literally the poster boy (okay, man) for the mental health community in Vancouver somehow managed to score a pair of these coveted mittens for me. He got up at 5:30 + went all the way to New Westminster on the sky train to get them for me + today, on March 25th, it's his 6 year no drug anniversary + last Monday was his 10 year no cigarettes anniversary. Not only that, but Rene started a Butt Out group for Vancouver mental health consumers, a compassionate, non-judgmental grass-roots support group which has proven successful. So bravo + thanks for the mittens, Rene. xoe Me + Oprah, we so rock. (Oh + that picture that pops up on the Butt Out site isn't Rene. Have no idea who that dude is.)

 

Rey-A-Day#84 A Tree Grows in Vancouver III, watercolour, 9x12, March 26/10

 

Rey-A-Day#83 A Tree Grows in Vancouver II, watercolour, 9x12, March 25/10

 

Rey-A-Day#82, A Tree Grows in Vancouver I, watercolour, 9x12, March 24/10

 

Rey-A-Day#81, A Tree Grows in Vancouver, watercolour, 9x12, March 23/10

 

a very helpful list here, of most pesticide laden foods to avoid

thanks Silani

 

Foto #79,6:58:05,4:47:06,7:08:31, March 21/10

Vancouver, the city of my youth, is one crazy beautiful city. Everything I see, I see double.  What was, what is. 

 

Obama + American Democrats; cheers

 

to a better future

 

Rey-A-Day#80, Flying over the Gulf Islands, BC, watercolour, 8x8, March 22/10

 

If it's Sunday, it must be Heartland, CBC at 7 in Canada

 

Rey-A-Day#79, Algonquin Nude II, watercolour 8x10 March 21/10

 

Foto #78,11:53:51,8:53:41. March 20/10

Tree, in front of my bedroom window, Montreal. First blossoms I saw, coming out of the Vancouver Airport. First day of spring, 2010

 

Rey-A-Day#78, Algonquin Nude I, watercolour 8x10 March 20/10

 

Rey-A-Day#77, Everything's coming up tulips, watercolour 4x5 , March 19/10

 

Rey-A-Day#76, Algonquin Model watercolour 6x12 on linen paper, March 18/10

 

Rey-A-Day#75, Algonquin Model Triptych, watercolour + ink, 3x 6x12, March 17/10

 

Rey-A-Day#74, Yup , 24x36, oil pastel, March 16/10

 

Rey-A-Day#73, Remembering the 1606 ducks who died in the Syncrude tailings ponds, 8x8, acrylic on watercolour paper, March 15/10

 

Rey-A-Day#72, Only when I was young, 24x36, oil pastel, March 14/10

 

Rey-A-Day#71, Is eating seal a big deal? 8x8, watercolour, March 12/10

Flush from their Olympic high, Canadians...the Ottawa parliamentarians in any case, have gone back to the land, okay the sea + are dining on seal (smoked + then wrapped in bacon) once a week during seal season, all this to go nyaaa nyaaa nyaaa at Europe who now bans seal products from Canada.  Seal skins are going for, what $17 dollars a skin these days (our gov't officials have been bombing around China drumming up business  at the cost of around 10 million + I just don't plum don't get it).... but if you want to jump on this latest Harper band wagon, here's a recipe for seal flippers + while you're at it, if you're from the prairies or Alberta + want to start clubbing groundhogs for their skins + not to waste the meat, here's a recipe for groundhog stew, too. 

Baked Seal Flippers with Vegetables

2    Seal flippers
      1 ts Soda 
      1 qt Cold water
      3 sl Salted pork fat
      2    Onions, chopped
      2    Carrots, cut up
      1    Turnip, cut up
      1    Parsnip, cut up
      5    Potatoes, cut up
      1 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Pepper

-------------------------------BISCUIT DOUGH-------------------------------
      2 c  Sifted flour
      4 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Shortening
    1/2 c  Water (approx.)

  Soak seal flippers in soda and water to cover for about 1/2 hour.
  
  Remove the white fat from seal meat with a sharp knife. Wash the meat and  cut it into serving portions. Fry the slices of salt pork in a heavy pot, then remove the "scrunchions". Brown the seal flippers in the hot fat fat, add one cup water, reduce heat   and let simmer until partly tender. Add the chopped vegetables, except the potatoes, and one cup of water.  Boil about 30 minutes. Add the potatoes, salt and pepper and cook another 15 minutes, adding more   water if needed and cook until tender.
 

Place in a casserole and top with biscuit dough as follows:
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender or two knives.
Add the water and blend to make a stiff dough. Roll out 1/2 inch thick and place on top of meat and vegetables in  casserole.
Bake in hot oven 425 deg F. for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.  
Serves 6

Woodchuck (Groundhog) Stew

1 woodchuck (or groundhog)
2 onions, sliced
1/2 cup celery, sliced
Flour
Vinegar and water
Salt and pepper
Cloves

Clean woodchuck(also called groundhog ); remove glands; cut into serving pieces. Soak overnight in a solution of equal parts of water and vinegar with addition of one sliced onion and a little salt. Drain, wash, and wipe. Parboil 20 minutes, drain, and cover with fresh boiling water. Add one sliced onion, celery, a few cloves, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until tender; thicken gravy with flour. 

You welcome.

 

Rey-A-Day#70, Nude with purple hairband I, watercolour, March 12/10

 

Good luck, little Mr. Shuffles

way over there in Australia...  

Must we kill + eat everything that moves?

Parliamentarians, not vegetarians.

 

Desolation Row, "the Main", St. Laurent, from Sherbrooke to Duluth St. Montreal

Park Canada designated the Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a national historic site because of its function as a gateway for immigrants to Canada.  Before the extended sidewalk widening fiasco under the last Plateau-Mont-Royal borough mayor Helen Fotopolis, this used to be a thriving,vibrant street. Well, look at it now. Dumoulin Stereo, Atomic, Twist Encore, the Portugese knick-knack store, Mondo Fritz, American Apparel, Welch's Bookstore, the copy centres, the Mac fix it place, the vegetable fruit store, various bakeries, etc. etc. etc. moved or closed for good, hugely due to the extended renos that we can see now have effectively murdered the street.   The street is dead in the day now + one big bar at night. Why a bike path wasn't included in the renos while they had the chance, astounds me.  Instead we have these widened sidewalks passing by grim stores fronts such as these....

 

Arg.  So much destroyed in such a short period of time.  Can the Main recover?

 

Rey-A-Day#69, Nude with purple hairband, 6x12, watercolour, March 11/10

 

support Senator Mac Harb

    
flood Canada's Parliament with letters of support  
 
 
 

Rey-A-Day#68, Mount Royal snow going, going...16x16, oil + acrylic on wood (incised) March 10/10