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You might want to try Theo's Restaurant in Penticton (https://eatsquid.com). We've eaten there several times-before Covid- and it's always been good.
1 year agoNaughty.
1 year agoYours is the more intriguing possibility...
1 year agoIt was a fun day! The challenge was finding a flattish ride but we managed! Fort Langley was definitely a good choice as we were travelling against traffic both ways, meaning you’d have been stuck in it had you come to North Van, which is decidedly not flat. Next time!
1 year agoInvasive blackberries! Yum, ouch!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/29/491797791/the-strange-twisted-story-behind-seattles-blackberries
Taxonomists have to have something to do on a slow day, I suppose. Might as well reorganize the family trees and bushes.
1 year agoHooray!
1 year agoIt was a giant hassle to get them but yes, they got them in case their folks want to take a quick Mexico vacation this winter.
1 year agoThe twins hve passports now? So are you going to take them to Thailand?
1 year agoI don’t think so, but when I asked him in the spring he said he was starting to pick it up again. Before the pandemic he led a ukulele group at the center and taught lessons (he also started up a billiards group). When you sign in to enter the facility there’s a picture on the monitor of him and the other players, all colorfully masked.
1 year agoAll my wildflower field guides from the 70s are hopelessly out of date too, dang those botanists.
1 year agoDoes he still play?
1 year agoThe twins just got theirs in the mail yesterday. Passports are so different now, what with all the built-in security features!
1 year agoI wonder too. I’m sorry they got reclassified because I can’t add them to my bird count!
This decision though was based on genome studies and research into when the two species differentiated. It happened in the Pleistocene, when the Northwesterners became isolated and cut off from the rest by glaciers. Now that the glaciers are gone, the two populations are interbreeding again and hybridizing. An interesting article on this: https://www.audubon.org/news/why-northwestern-crow-vanished-overnight
What a coincidence. I was just looking at it. We’re planning to eat there tomorrow night.
1 year ago