In the Neighbourhood


These are some pictures I took in my neighbourhood...


This is the front entrance to my house. It looks a bit crusty from the outside, but inside it is all nice and wooden and there is a giant brushed steel fridge and that kind of thing. However, the little front porch is very nice for reading and drinking coffee on.
Here is moi, holding a cat I caught on the street. It didn't want me to hold it, but I made sure it didn't escape until I was ready to let it go. As you can see, I am grasping its back paw pretty tightly. It was soft and fluffy. I bought this shirt the other day, it is pretty awesome and flannel and it is like grunge never died. Either that or I am a lumberjack (I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory, etc.)
This sign was taped to a power box near where I saw the cat. And then further along the street, there was a jump set up (bits of plywood, bricks, a pile of sand to land in) over a homemade wooden coffin. It was pretty sweet. I saw kids biking over it later that day, and I asked how they were doing but they said no one wanted to lie in the coffin and be jumped over, not even for free. I would like to be able to say that I paid a quarter and lay in the Coffin of Death, but I didn't. It looked pretty scary.
Ummm... I made some scones. This photo is for the North Americans who have some confusion over categories of baked goods. This is a scone, people, at least according to ye olde England and her commonwealth outposts. It was delicious.
Anna eating a scone and some tomato soup that I also made and which was also delicious. And drinking some wine that was cheap (by Canadian standards, anyway) and not so delicious. In my back yard with some kind of hippy cloth on the table. The downstairs neighbours put it there, not me. I swear.
BABY SKUNK! It was in my garden! Seriously people, most exciting Canadian moment so far. All these mammals, it is pretty exciting I tell you. Anyway I thought it was a squirrel at first, but then noticed its STRIPES and realised it was the cutest, fluffiest baby little skunk in the world. I followed it like a skunk paparazzo so I could take photos, and it was totally freaked out. I don't think its stench producing mechanisms were fully developed yet, because I'm sure it would have tried to spray me otherwise, as I was being a total pain. But it was so so cute.
We chased the skunk into the alleyway behind my house where people put out their rubbish and so forth. It looks like this, which is pretty nice at moments when the light is just right. Soon after, the skunk shimmied out of sight (well, it didn't really shimmy at all because it was too fluffy and wasn't wearing gold lame or anything) and that was the end of that. Goodnight!