#prairies — Public Fediverse posts
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Well, I finally summerized [1] my snowblower today. Good until fall, now.
Yes, it's the prairies. I thought about doing it around the 3rd week of April, but we had two big snowstorms between then and now, so I'm glad I didn't.
[1] Drain most of the fuel, run it to burn the rest off and warm the oil, then change the oil.
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The snow is almost all melted.
Again.
Again.
The weather on the prairies this fimbulwinter has been pretty bad. I blame the groundhog, who saw his shadow back in February, giving us the traditional "six more months of winter".
[Edit: typos. Jeez.]
#Canada #prairies #weather #SK #GroundhogDay #groundhog #fimbulwinter #winter
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> Hares don’t burrow, but dig out shallow scrapes called “forms”. They’re very
> shallow hare-shaped indentations.... or, if they're lazy, they find a roughly hare-shaped depression that happens to already exist 😆
I looked out my front window just now and saw this one enjoying the late afternoon sun while lying in an improvised form where the paving blocks have shifted and sunk, up against the edge of the poured concrete driveway. The stone and concrete were quite warm from sitting in the sun.
Sorry for the lousy photo - this was taken through a dirty window, and he sat up when I tried to snap him through the open door.
[Edit: forgot to attach the darn picture]
[Edit 2: typo in alt text]#wildlife #SK #prairies #hare #jackrabbit #rabbit #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada #UrbanWildlife #lazy #LazyBunny
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> Hares don’t burrow, but dig out shallow scrapes called “forms”. They’re very
> shallow hare-shaped indentations.... or, if they're lazy, they find a roughly hare-shaped depression that happens to already exist 😆
I looked out my front window just now and saw this one enjoying the late afternoon sun while lying in an improvised form where the paving blocks have shifted and sunk, up against the edge of the poured concrete driveway. The stone and concrete were quite warm from sitting in the sun.
Sorry for the lousy photo - this was taken through a dirty window, and he sat up when I tried to snap him through the open door.
[Edit: forgot to attach the darn picture]
[Edit 2: typo in alt text]#wildlife #SK #prairies #hare #jackrabbit #rabbit #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada #UrbanWildlife #lazy #LazyBunny
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> Hares don’t burrow, but dig out shallow scrapes called “forms”. They’re very
> shallow hare-shaped indentations.... or, if they're lazy, they find a roughly hare-shaped depression that happens to already exist 😆
I looked out my front window just now and saw this one enjoying the late afternoon sun while lying in an improvised form where the paving blocks have shifted and sunk, up against the edge of the poured concrete driveway. The stone and concrete were quite warm from sitting in the sun.
Sorry for the lousy photo - this was taken through a dirty window, and he sat up when I tried to snap him through the open door.
[Edit: forgot to attach the darn picture]
[Edit 2: typo in alt text]#wildlife #SK #prairies #hare #jackrabbit #rabbit #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada #UrbanWildlife #lazy #LazyBunny
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> Hares don’t burrow, but dig out shallow scrapes called “forms”. They’re very
> shallow hare-shaped indentations.... or, if they're lazy, they find a roughly hare-shaped depression that happens to already exist 😆
I looked out my front window just now and saw this one enjoying the late afternoon sun while lying in an improvised form where the paving blocks have shifted and sunk, up against the edge of the poured concrete driveway. The stone and concrete were quite warm from sitting in the sun.
Sorry for the lousy photo - this was taken through a dirty window, and he sat up when I tried to snap him through the open door.
[Edit: forgot to attach the darn picture]
[Edit 2: typo in alt text]#wildlife #SK #prairies #hare #jackrabbit #rabbit #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada #UrbanWildlife #lazy #LazyBunny
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> Hares don’t burrow, but dig out shallow scrapes called “forms”. They’re very
> shallow hare-shaped indentations.... or, if they're lazy, they find a roughly hare-shaped depression that happens to already exist 😆
I looked out my front window just now and saw this one enjoying the late afternoon sun while lying in an improvised form where the paving blocks have shifted and sunk, up against the edge of the poured concrete driveway. The stone and concrete were quite warm from sitting in the sun.
Sorry for the lousy photo - this was taken through a dirty window, and he sat up when I tried to snap him through the open door.
[Edit: forgot to attach the darn picture]
[Edit 2: typo in alt text]#wildlife #SK #prairies #hare #jackrabbit #rabbit #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada #UrbanWildlife #lazy #LazyBunny
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Oh, fantastic. The snow we're supposed to get tonight has been upgraded to a yellow warning:
> Snowfall with total amounts of 15 to 25 cm is expected.
That's 6-to-10 inches for the metrically-challenged. Also blizzard / white-out conditions. Whee!
I'm glad I didn't summerize my snowblower yet!
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A white jackrabbit
bounces across the brown lawn,
for spring is here. Boing!#rabbit #bunny #jackrabbit #wildlife #Canada #SK #prairies #haiku #BadHaiku #BadPoetry
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Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help
#ClimateChange #Prairies #Canada #WaterManagement #FloodRisk #AI #Hydrology #Agriculture #Environment #Wetlands #Innovation #Sustainability #RuralCommunities #WaterCrisis
https://the-14.com/water-flow-in-prairie-watersheds-is-increasingly-unpredictable-but-ai-could-help/ -
Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help
#ClimateChange #Prairies #Canada #WaterManagement #FloodRisk #AI #Hydrology #Agriculture #Environment #Wetlands #Innovation #Sustainability #RuralCommunities #WaterCrisis
https://the-14.com/water-flow-in-prairie-watersheds-is-increasingly-unpredictable-but-ai-could-help/ -
Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help
#ClimateChange #Prairies #Canada #WaterManagement #FloodRisk #AI #Hydrology #Agriculture #Environment #Wetlands #Innovation #Sustainability #RuralCommunities #WaterCrisis
https://the-14.com/water-flow-in-prairie-watersheds-is-increasingly-unpredictable-but-ai-could-help/ -
Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help
#ClimateChange #Prairies #Canada #WaterManagement #FloodRisk #AI #Hydrology #Agriculture #Environment #Wetlands #Innovation #Sustainability #RuralCommunities #WaterCrisis
https://the-14.com/water-flow-in-prairie-watersheds-is-increasingly-unpredictable-but-ai-could-help/ -
Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help
#ClimateChange #Prairies #Canada #WaterManagement #FloodRisk #AI #Hydrology #Agriculture #Environment #Wetlands #Innovation #Sustainability #RuralCommunities #WaterCrisis
https://the-14.com/water-flow-in-prairie-watersheds-is-increasingly-unpredictable-but-ai-could-help/ -
We've had some warm temperatures here on the prairies the last couple of days, and it's mostly looking like above-freezing during the day for the foreseeable future [1]. So today I pulled the snow tires off the cars and put the "all-season" [2] ones on.
Please join me tomorrow in celebrating the semi-annual festival of Oh My Gawd Why Are My Knees On Fire And I Didn't Even Know I Had Muscles In That Part Of My Thigh.
[1] To be fair, this is about 5-6 days max. They don't bother to even try forecasting further out than that here.
[2] Really "three-season", if you live anywhere where it gets more than a handful of degrees below freezing.
#Canada #prairies #SK #YQR #weather #warm #spring #snow #tires #SnowTires #AllSeason #knees #thighs #pain #sore #MiddleAge
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It's spring-ish today on the Canadian prairies, and while I was out running errands a car cruised by me in the parking lot. A little Acura coupe with the sunroof open, and a dog's head [1] sticking up out of it, loving the breeze, the smells, and the sights of all the people.
It was a good day.
[1] What looked like a cross between a husky and a border collie - pretty sure its IQ was higher than anyone in the US administration's cabinet.
#dog #SmartDog #smart #prairies #SK #YQR #Canada #spring #sunroof #arf #GoodDay #ItWasAGoodDay
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"The most important message is that prairies have a lot of resilience built into them and it’s fascinating to watch that resilience on display. There are lots of good/right ways to manage prairies, depending upon your objectives, and we surely haven’t explored all of those yet. It’s ok to experiment with new approaches to see what happens. How else will we learn? "
#Sustainability #Ecology #Conservation #Restoration #NaturalHistory #USPrairie #Prairies #GrasslandsThe Post-Grazing Year
https://prairieecologist.com/2026/02/04/the-post-grazing-year/
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You've proven my point - you aren't familiar with conditions in the #prairies or the remote #north.
Calgary to Edmonton is a trivial jaunt, especially because the entire way it's densely developed (for the prairies). I'm talking about trips I take or took regularly, in -35C weather or colder (your heat pump won't work, and you'll have to have the electric resistance #heater going full blast the whole trip - that's 7 kW or so, isn't it? Goodbye, range figures...). Oh, and the #battery heater.
Think: 8 hour drive, during the last four of which you'll pass no human #settlements, much less a fast charger. When you get there, there's no fast charger, either. A standard 120 VAC 15 A plug is all you'll have access to (if you're lucky), so you're gonna be plugged in for a day or two - maybe more? - before you can return.
And then you do the math on the range, and find out you can't even make it that last four hours - you'll run out of juice, and then you'll be dead from hypothermia in 30 minutes if you stay in the car, 10 minutes if you leave the car. Even if you charged up at that last station before the Big Empty, you barely have enough juice to get there given the distance, headwind - 60 km/h is common, and wind resistance, which uses most of your energy, increases with the *cube* of the airspeed you're pushing through - and cold.
I invite you to visit, so you can understand that other peoples' situations differ from yours.
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Not exactly. What the issue is is "the cold parts of Canada are too thinly populated to have the electric infrastructure necessary for quick charging to allow you to travel between cities reliably in the extreme cold". We can discuss the details - the math shows pretty conclusively how electric vehicles are not an alternative in a lot of situations in the prairies and the north - but it's all stuff I've gone through before. If you're one of the "just switch to electric already!" city-dwellers from lower BC or the Windsor-Quebec City corridor who's never lived elsewhere, you really don't have a frame of reference for this.
"Canada is too cold for electric cars" is a straw-man argument that nobody is making.
#ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #EV #prairies #north #remote #desolate #PopulationDensity #infrastructure
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Not exactly. What the issue is is "the cold parts of Canada are too thinly populated to have the electric infrastructure necessary for quick charging to allow you to travel between cities reliably in the extreme cold". We can discuss the details - the math shows pretty conclusively how electric vehicles are not an alternative in a lot of situations in the prairies and the north - but it's all stuff I've gone through before. If you're one of the "just switch to electric already!" city-dwellers from lower BC or the Windsor-Quebec City corridor who's never lived elsewhere, you really don't have a frame of reference for this.
"Canada is too cold for electric cars" is a straw-man argument that nobody is making.
#ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #EV #prairies #north #remote #desolate #PopulationDensity #infrastructure
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Not exactly. What the issue is is "the cold parts of Canada are too thinly populated to have the electric infrastructure necessary for quick charging to allow you to travel between cities reliably in the extreme cold". We can discuss the details - the math shows pretty conclusively how electric vehicles are not an alternative in a lot of situations in the prairies and the north - but it's all stuff I've gone through before. If you're one of the "just switch to electric already!" city-dwellers from lower BC or the Windsor-Quebec City corridor who's never lived elsewhere, you really don't have a frame of reference for this.
"Canada is too cold for electric cars" is a straw-man argument that nobody is making.
#ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #EV #prairies #north #remote #desolate #PopulationDensity #infrastructure
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Not exactly. What the issue is is "the cold parts of Canada are too thinly populated to have the electric infrastructure necessary for quick charging to allow you to travel between cities reliably in the extreme cold". We can discuss the details - the math shows pretty conclusively how electric vehicles are not an alternative in a lot of situations in the prairies and the north - but it's all stuff I've gone through before. If you're one of the "just switch to electric already!" city-dwellers from lower BC or the Windsor-Quebec City corridor who's never lived elsewhere, you really don't have a frame of reference for this.
"Canada is too cold for electric cars" is a straw-man argument that nobody is making.
#ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #EV #prairies #north #remote #desolate #PopulationDensity #infrastructure
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Not exactly. What the issue is is "the cold parts of Canada are too thinly populated to have the electric infrastructure necessary for quick charging to allow you to travel between cities reliably in the extreme cold". We can discuss the details - the math shows pretty conclusively how electric vehicles are not an alternative in a lot of situations in the prairies and the north - but it's all stuff I've gone through before. If you're one of the "just switch to electric already!" city-dwellers from lower BC or the Windsor-Quebec City corridor who's never lived elsewhere, you really don't have a frame of reference for this.
"Canada is too cold for electric cars" is a straw-man argument that nobody is making.
#ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #EV #prairies #north #remote #desolate #PopulationDensity #infrastructure
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Autumn on the Canadian prairies.
This means we start playing a somewhat unique game - see if we can make it to full winter (snow on the ground that will remain until spring) without having to turn on the air conditioning *after* having had to turn on the furnace.
We've been dangerously close to freezing already. And tomorrow is forecast to be +30C.
#Canada #Canadian #prairies #weather #crazy #furnace #heat #AC #AirConditioning
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The jackrabbits (which are hares, not rabbits...) don't hang around the house much in the spring/summer/fall when there are fields full of grass to eat and they're not freezing to death - but they do pass through the yard fairly often.
This one came through late this afternoon and decided to have a little snooze in a patch of sunbeam.
#prairies #SK #YQR #wildlife #jackrabbit #hare #rabbit #bunny #RabbitsOfMastodon #Canada
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It's been quite cold in the Canadian prairies for the last couple of weeks. Cold days call for hearty soup.
Signs Your Hearty Soup Has Enough Stuff In It, no. 3:
It fills an 8-liter stock pot nearly to the brim, but you only added 2 liters of stock.
#cold #ColdDay #soup #hearty #HeartySoup #stock #filling #Canada #prairies
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It's been quite cold in the Canadian prairies for the last couple of weeks. Cold days call for hearty soup.
Signs Your Hearty Soup Has Enough Stuff In It, no. 3:
It fills an 8-liter stock pot nearly to the brim, but you only added 2 liters of stock.
#cold #ColdDay #soup #hearty #HeartySoup #stock #filling #Canada #prairies
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It's been quite cold in the Canadian prairies for the last couple of weeks. Cold days call for hearty soup.
Signs Your Hearty Soup Has Enough Stuff In It, no. 3:
It fills an 8-liter stock pot nearly to the brim, but you only added 2 liters of stock.
#cold #ColdDay #soup #hearty #HeartySoup #stock #filling #Canada #prairies
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It's been quite cold in the Canadian prairies for the last couple of weeks. Cold days call for hearty soup.
Signs Your Hearty Soup Has Enough Stuff In It, no. 3:
It fills an 8-liter stock pot nearly to the brim, but you only added 2 liters of stock.
#cold #ColdDay #soup #hearty #HeartySoup #stock #filling #Canada #prairies
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When we see "* denotes an abnormal temperature trend", we think "Here we go again..."
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Negotiating farm femininity in agricultural leadership
Jennifer Braun
Ken Caine
Mary Anne Beckie#Women #Leadership #FarmHer #Agriculture #CanAg #Canada #Prairies #CanadianPrairies #Respectable #Femininity #Privilege #AgriculturalLeadership #Manitoba #Saskatchewan #Alberta
#JustPublished #FoodStudies #NewIssue
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/646 -
Negotiating farm femininity in agricultural leadership
Jennifer Braun
Ken Caine
Mary Anne Beckie#Women #Leadership #FarmHer #Agriculture #CanAg #Canada #Prairies #CanadianPrairies #Respectable #Femininity #Privilege #AgriculturalLeadership #Manitoba #Saskatchewan #Alberta
#JustPublished #FoodStudies #NewIssue
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/646
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"A little house"
#lacasita #casita #alittlehouse #alittlehouseinthewoods #small #littlehouses #prairies #theburren #country #countrylife #countryliving #countryside #watercolour #watercolourart #watercoloursketch #watercoloursketchbook #sketch #sketchdaily #sketchbook #irish #ireland #canson #cansonpaper
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From 2023: #OneidaNation's #environmental restoration project to receive funding in proposed [#Wisconsin] state budget
#Wildrice, or manoomin in #Ojibwe, is central to Ojibwe identity and is part of the culture’s migration story.
by Frank Vaisvilas
February 17, 2023ONEIDA – "Part of Gov. #TonyEvers’ proposed budget includes $875,000 to help fund the Oneida Nation’s environmental restoration project on the reservation.
"Over the past year, the tribe has restored about 3,000 acres of #wetlands, #grasslands, #prairies and #forests on the reservation.
"The governor’s budget includes an annual investment of $175,000 for five years for continuing the Oneida Nation’s #HabitatRestoration work and bird monitoring project just west of #GreenBay.
"'We know that #nature can provide for itself if allowed to. A years-long restoration of Oneida’s lands in Northeastern Wisconsin has led to improvements in water quality and the return of #wildlife,' said Oneida Chairman Tehassi Hill in a statement. 'We appreciate Governor Evers for supporting our work to restore and protect Wisconsin’s natural spaces.'
"The Oneida Nation also started a bird monitoring project on its restoration sites in coordination with the Northeastern Wisconsin #Audubon Society and UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Center for Biodiversity to research how birds are responding to the tribe’s conservation efforts.
"'We’ve witnessed firsthand as state-threatened bird species, like the #HenslowsSparrow, have returned to restored Oneida Nation lands, an incredible testament to the importance of this restoration work,' said Erin Giese, president of the Northeastern Wisconsin Audubon Society, in a statement.
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"Evers’ budget proposal also includes a $200,000 investment in restoring and protecting natural wild rice areas in Wisconsin.
"Experts say wild rice is an essential food source for many of the #MigratorBirds in the area, including many species of #ducks, #pheasants, #owls, #cranes, #geese and #songbirds.
"The plants also help to improve the #environment.
"'Emergent plants, including wild rice, help promote #water quality through the filtering and storage of nutrients and slow down wave action in the #CoastalWetlands of Green Bay,' said Dr. Amy Carrozzino-Lyon, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay restoration project manager in the natural and applied sciences department. 'A diversity of native wetland plants helps the community function at its best.'"
#RestoreNature #WaterIsLife #RestoreTheWetlands
#SaveTheMarshes
#SaveNature #NatureBasedSolutions
#IndigenousWisdom
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Global News BC: Homicide Team identifies 29-year-old in targeted shooting in Burnaby https://globalnews.ca/news/9967517/ihit-identify-burnaby-shooting-victim/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #GagandeepSandhu #Prairies #Shooting #Burnaby #Justice #News #Gang #IHIT
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'This is the #dichotomy we have between what people write about the things #Indigenous people have done on the landscape vs sensible reasons for why it was done,” said Benoit, whose heritage is #RedRiver #Michif (#Métis ). “Through #OralTradition, we knew that there were good #ecological and #food -related reasons to do these things.”
Benoit’s point is that the #Prairies were “#settled ” and #farmed long before #European #settlers arrived.'
