Ally R 🍁 (MB)

@ally8.bsky.social

Cuisine, travel, nature, diy, sci-fi, fantasy, and theme parties. My garden is more square footage than my house, and that's bonkers. Centre-left with friends on both sides, just don't be disrespectful. Life is too short. 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚽️⛳️🥎

Lloyd Robertson has died. Born in 1934 in Stratford, he was one of Canada's most celebrated journalists. He was the anchor of CTV's national nightly news from 1984 to 2011. He was also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television. 📸 CTV

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Binging the new Little House on the Prairie. So very different from the Landon version, but I like it. Some dark themes, definately not a young kids series. A few cool cameos. ;) Shot right here in Manitoba :)

I have Folkfest packing to do. I also want to watch the US lose. Also, every time I walk away, Belgium scores, so I feel I should keep doing so to get my packing done....but , can't. tear. myself. away. from. the. TV. Sigh. Struggle.

Caution to inexperienced cooks: AI generated recipes are untested and not to be trusted. The last 4 recipes I started to read through on Pinterest were fraught with ommissions, conversion errors and substitution suggestions that would result in disaster.

I'm not downtown very often anymore, but when Winnipeg Folkfest has a pop up presale on merch, you make the trek! Followed up by a falafel from Bodegas, Red River book store, and Toad Hall Toys. I'm now completely over-stimulated from the stores and need a quiet potter in my garden. Lol

Hooray! After finding zero monarch eggs on my milkweed all last year, (smoky summer - wildfires) I just found 11! So many ditches are still filled with water after our 10 inches of rainfall last week so alot of wild milkweed is under water 😞 Chez Ally is all cleaned up and ready for hatchlings!

Milkweed leaves with monarch eggs attached in a plastic container. Once the eggs hatch and gone through one molt, they will move to my enclosure until they emerge from chrysalis. A close up of a monarch egg attached to its milkweed leaf.My enclosure for rearing monarch caterpillars to butterfly stage for release.

Bang bang salmon in the air fryer, with Edemame. Took less prep and cook time than the rice. Going into the summer rotation as a "too pooped from gardening to cook" dinner. 🍽

A bowl of white rice, bang bang spicy salmon cubes with sweet chili mayo and hoisin sauce, topped with furikaki  served with Edemame.

Saw The Mandalorian and Grogu tonight. If you like the show, you'll love it. It was like 3 amped up episodes smushed together. Some fun cameos, a touch of cheesy, a few moments of 'head tilt-huh?'.

Watching the History channel and all 7 contributing experts are pronouncing Gengis Khan with a soft G (capital G only) and I'm not sure who from my past I'm supposed to be annoyed at. Let's just go with Hollywood.

Chapman's Coffee Chip ice cream+choc & caramel syrup+toasted almonds= lazy Billy Miner Pie (aka: Mud Pie, mocha ice cream pie) 😋 Alas, no oreos on hand for crumbly topping. Sigh. I'll live. Lol

Coffee Chip ice cream with chocolate and caramel syrup and toasted almonds.

He never ceases to impress. While we have plans to build a small reclaimed window greenhouse for hardening off plants and slightly extending the growing season, he has taken the frames of 2 old 10x10 sun shelters and made me an 8x10 temporary version.

A temporary lean-to style greenhouse made from 2 10x10 sun shelters frames and a part roll of poly. 2 benches, that the backs fold down to make a picnic table, makes for plant shelving. Will be used for hardening off my indoor started plants.A temporary lean-to style greenhouse made from 2 10x10 sun shelters frames and a part roll of poly. 2 benches, that the backs fold down to make a picnic table, makes for plant shelving. Will be used for hardening off my indoor started plantsA temporary lean-to style greenhouse made from 2 10x10 sun shelters frames and a part roll of poly. 2 benches, that the backs fold down to make a picnic table, makes for plant shelving. Will be used for hardening off my indoor started plantsA temporary lean-to style greenhouse made from 2 10x10 sun shelters frames and a part roll of poly. 2 benches, that the backs fold down to make a picnic table, makes for plant shelving. Will be used for hardening off my indoor started plants

Census complete. We never received a code in the mail, so had to request one. Was quick, but finicky because of a rural address. Didn't recognize it with legal land descript either, but 3rd option of map plot pin was the charm. My nerdy friends; commence jealousy - got the long version! Lol