Subj: free game meat

 DD> Venison is the meat of deer, which is a kosher species.

Sure, but shooting it with a rifle instead of cutting its throat
with a special sharp knife is not an approved slaughter method, so
observant Jews do not eat wild game, just meat from farmed animals
slaughtered "properly".

  Subj: Sinking

 JW> shrinking permafrost.

 DD> Owtch! How do they shore up permafrost?

Around Yellowknife we have discontinuous patches. Before urban
development they were pretty stable. But when we cut down the
evergreen trees that provided shade, ripped up the moss which
insulated the soil, built paved roads that act as heat sinks and
houses with basements that leak heat through their concrete basement
walls, and made lawns that needed watering things changed.

As they slowly melt the mud jackers fill the void.

Further north the ground only thaws on a seasonal basis for the
first foot or two down and then there is really permanent permafrost
down the next ninety or more feet. It makes as solid a foundation as
a bedrock outcrop with absolutely no foundation settling.

  Subj: meat lockers
                            
 JW> We had Aladdin lamps too ...
 JW> they got a surprisingly good price in 2003.

 DD> Antiquarians (not a Zodiac sign) will pay amazing dosh for some
 DD> things that were commonplace during our youth.

And diddly squat for other things, like Victorian era fine bone china.
Farm estate auctions are quirky that way.

 JW> Loblaws also owns Shoppers Drug Mart now

 DD> IOW Loblaw's is the Con-Agra of Canada.  Bv(>
 
Not quite. They're more ethical! Especially now, as our Competition
Bureau which watches over monopolies barely approved the merger with
conditions attached and is monitoring things closely.

 DD> I refuse to buy from WallyWorld on principle

Same. I've mentioned that dozens of times and you hundreds so
I'm pretty sure everybody here knows. Similarly I am disinclined to
use Amazon too.

  Subj: trains

 DD> There are some nifty things to do/see in North Dakota --
 DD> www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions/north-dakota-usnd.htm
 
Granted. But southern Alberta and Saskatchewan have more of the same
and I've already seen it so I won't be making a side trip there
soon.

 SD> Lots of German ancestry in North Dakota.

Same here in the Canadian western provinces. There are probably more
Mennonites than there are "regular" Germans there.

Roslind's step father who passed away just recently was a first
generation Canadian with German ancestry and we also have a
(non-practising) Mennonite BIL (the rancher with the rodeo stock).



Cheers

Jim


... It's hard being a drunk teenager when you're in your 30s

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