I feel like it's been ages since they offered me anything as an existing customer. And they didn't send me an email or anything, but today when I logged in they gave me 4.25% on savings accounts.
On the same day, EQ emailed me to let me know the base rates are increasing (by an inconsequential 0.5%).
Anyone else get a Tangerine promo for the first time in a long time? What rate? Is anyone offering better for savings accounts right now?
I've submitted a handful of photos and article edits in the past few months. Some of them show as pending for a while and then disappear.
Some of them are just removing old statements about things being temporarily closed, statements from 2+ years ago. Others have been additions of new things at the sites.
Is nobody approving article edits? Are they not taking new photos? What's going on with the company?
I'm a city person, which means sidewalks, queues, nightlife, crowded museums on free days.
But I also like a little bit of space around me. People who stand right and walk left on the escalator, people who walk on the right side of the sidewalk, who slide from their group into single file when they see someone oncoming. People who take their backpacks off on transit. Who don't stop in the middle of the walkway or block doors. Where spatial behaviour is a little more orderly and conscientious.
Places where I expected people to have a rigid sense of social etiquette don't actually have any more awareness of the space around them. I realize it's probably mostly tourists around me, but I guess I was hoping some place would even get them in line.
Where is the best place to experience this, in your opinion? Where have you been with the most orderly city folk?
My friend gave me this root ball in the spring. The foliage is nice and dark, and the flowers just started blooming.
Finally hit 100k! Finally hit 1 million! Finally!
There's no threshold for fast or slow. Getting it done is all that matters.
Include your age if you want, but you don't need to make it sound like you're way behind and catching up. That just makes everyone else who's got less saved than you feel like they're doing even worse.
Congratulations on hitting your goal! On to the next one! Don't diminish your own success.
I got laid off yesterday.
The company offered me 2 weeks of severance plus 10 days of unused vacation pay.
My manager was also laid off. She was crying during the call.
At least, I’m not in a financial crisis. I have $5M in net worth, including my house.
My plan:
Rent out rooms in my house.
Possibly list them on Airbnb.
Focus on my side business, which should help cover my mortgage and expensive property taxes.
Now I’m trying to figure out the next chapter.
They are never big enough or tough enough, are they? Is someone out there building XXL tomato cages for me, or is there a clever DIY solution? I'm about ready to just start putting a circle of them around each plant.
I've just come back from the Bay of Fundy with all sorts of agates and quartz (multiple bags' worth). I'm hoping someone in Halifax has a rock saw and wants to cut a bunch of these in half so we can see what's inside. I leave on Sunday and don't want to bring all these home. Will pay you in rocks!
I'm hoping the brain looking thing is a coral fossil, but not too sure. The rest seems like a lot of jasper with quartzite bands, plus one really lovely pure quartz shard. But I'm not too educated on this stuff so any technical help you can give would be great. Am I supposed to split any of these in half?
Remember, every delicious mulberry you eat stops the spread of the terrible invasive hybridizer!
Plus they're high in iron and fibre.
I've been eyeing these seed pods for over a month now, waiting for them to get dry. I guess I missed the moment because I had to pick these little guys up from the dirt. I've never seen them before!
I'm going to just plant them right away, unless anyone has any better ideas.
So exciting! Bloodroot everywhere!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ticks-in-canada-climate-change-9.7230828
A CBC article about tick migration into Canada repeats the old advice about keeping plants short if you walk through them.
But of course it says nothing about creating a habitat in your yard to deter ticks and eliminate spaces where they thrive:
https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/rewild-your-yard-to-fight-ticks-and-support-wildlife/
Their main argument appears to be that encouraging animals that prey on mice will reduce tick numbers.
Elsewhere it's recommended that certain scents will ward them off: lavender, rosemary, the usual stuff. Not native but not invasive either.
I've also seen arguments between - plant trees to reduce temperatures and mitigate climate change to stop the spread, vs. increase sunlight and heat to desiccate ticks that thrive in humidity.
I'm not sure how much any of this has basis in empirical observations and decent methodology. Seems like a lot of "It stands to reason" concepts. But I'd certainly rather plant a defensive yard than walk around in long pants and boots and thick socks all summer.
I think this is the best roundup, which seems pretty unbiased:
https://1000islandsmastergardeners.ca/ticks/
We can all agree: barberry bad!!
What's your tick experience been recently? What are your strategies?
The end is going to be a big surprise to a lot of people.
Four or five instances of these two-eared "heads" on one plant. The mother plant never did this!
I know this plant can revert to a flat-leafed form, but this doesn't seem the way.
I know there are lots of different types of breast tissue and of course size and shape will be a factor. Curious what other people are dealing with.
Sometimes mine (DDD) move in the same way that a waterbed moves when you sit on it. Or like a water balloon looks in slow-motion. They undulate.
You?
Normal? Weird? A different varietal altogether?
Zone 6b.
Img 1: Before
Img 2: After a mini spa: 4 hours in OxiClean Versatile, then wash with detergent.
Img 3: After a full spa: 12 hours in Resolve Gold + detergent, then wash with RG + D + ammonia.
What should I try next? This dirt is just from baseball and the backyard.
Every step is an improvement for sure, but I'd like to know if storebought white is possible.