Happy Birthday Catherine!

[Catherine]

Thank-you. I love the dancing hamsters. When you are feeling good you have to dance.

I gave Barrie a good bath this morning and I am still happy that I still have Barrie with me so I can bath him. He is looking really good and I can tell he feels good.

Two big presents in the news. 1)The Energy East Pipeline project has been cancelled. So no tar sands oil travelling across my beloved prairies in a pipeline that we know will leak. And no tar sands oil passing by across the top of Toronto to threaten where I live now. 
2) The  government has okayed a major payout to Indigenous children who were stolen from their families and given to "white" families. It was an act of cultural genocide and the children are adults now and they struggle to reconnect their lives with their heritage. (I have indigenous roots through my grandmother and she shaped who I am through stories of her life and history)

The only thing that could sweeten it would be a ban on animal testing.

Now I am heading out to spend time at the reptile centre. We are raising some very tiny lizards that made it to Toronto on a shipment of plants from Florida. They are Brown Anoles and the florist brought them in. They were barely 1/2 inch long but they have grown to 1 inch now. 
I am bringing a birthday feast and pumpkin pie so I will celebrate later.