When I worked in downtown Calgary my old touring bike was left locked to outside racks all day and never got stolen. Probably because it was a deeply uncool bike that no self respecting methhead would want to be seen with, ha ha.

Some bike shops sell trade-ins. It might be at the high end of your budget, but someone will have gone over it to make sure it’s in working condition.

I hope they didn’t use the one in the photo. An underwire would start hurting after a while.

I would think that a town called “Redditt” would be equally problematic.

Do not carry grocery bags from your handlebars. I did that when I was a teenager and now I have bridgework where my upper front teeth once were.

Canada here. Still avoiding American produce in the grocery store if possible. I’ve missed citrus fruit, but some Moroccan oranges showed up last week. Mexico is our main supplier these days.

Thank you for sharing. Most of us have been there and we all carry our previous cats around in our hearts.

Teaspoon is abbreviated to “tsp”, tablespoon is “tbsp”.

That must have been like wearing an oven after a few hours.

Four teaspoons isn’t very much though. Most oils and fats are about 60 calories per teaspoon, which would only be about 240 to 260 for the amount listed on the jar.

Thankfully, Dyson doesn’t eat his at all. Our other cat does, but she’s slowing down in her old age.

To be truly authentic, the time should be in Roman numerals.

I want Gregorian chants or Baroque mandolin music.

They’d be the best compromise for me. I usually drive short distances in the city, but maybe once or twice a year I want to do the 800km journey back to my home city in the next province. Train travel isn’t an option.

This is sad.

When that size system first started being used, size zero would have been for a newborn infant. Actually, size 0 didn’t even exist then.

The size range of most adult women’s clothes was once referred to as “misses” sizes, as in “young misses”. So a size 12 (before vanity sizing existed) was actually intended to fit an average 12 year old and the size numbers referred to the approximate age of teen that could be usually be expected to wear it. There was no size 0 back then, misses clothing usually went from 12 up to 20, although the range sometimes started at 10. After that, a woman moved into “woman’s” sizing and the next number up was 40.

“Vanity” sizing started to appear in about the mid 80s and every manufacturer had their own idea of what a size 12 was supposed to be. This is when I first noticed that off the rack sizes no longer matched up with sewing pattern sizes.

Here’s an example of a sewing pattern size chart from the 1950s. All the pattern companies used standard sizing, with minor variations.

Are you also driving an 11 year old Grand Caravan? (Whatever happened to the Petite Caravan?)

There’s a mineral called jasper that is often reddish brown, but it can also appear in a lot of other colours. So unlike malachite, ruby, or emerald, it’s not a great name for a colour.

What beautiful markings!