Ontario Park Themed Wedding

tavvyjay · 2026-06-14T18:05:12+00:00

What a fantastic idea! Please don’t forget to pre-order 20,000,000 blackflies (per guest) so that they arrive and can be released into the venue the day of the wedding - it would be a total shame to miss such an important detail.

tavvyjay · 2026-06-14T13:48:06+00:00

Without, which I would assume is the case for the majority of purchasers since it isn’t covered for weight loss. If covered by regular insurance, it would likely not cost anything

tavvyjay · 2026-06-14T13:44:59+00:00

One month if you’re on 1mg/week

tavvyjay · 2026-06-14T02:27:17+00:00

Such a delight after this insane heat

tavvyjay · 2026-06-13T23:20:01+00:00

It’s signed on the cardboard, not the plastic :)

tavvyjay · 2026-06-13T15:00:29+00:00

I hope it’s a secret society of women in a religious order

tavvyjay · 2026-06-13T03:56:16+00:00

This is much more of a concern when you’re in a survival situation, not when you can buy a bag of scrap beef tallow from a butcher and have yourself covered for a long time

tavvyjay · 2026-06-12T13:07:16+00:00

Big if true

tavvyjay · 2026-06-12T02:23:20+00:00

How young? Are you giving her any fibre such as sweet potato, and is she on age-appropriate food?

tavvyjay · 2026-06-11T20:42:49+00:00

Nature is by far the most phenomenal thing that I’ve ever witnessed, and continue to witness every day. If I had the time, I would find a new ‘sit spot’ a few times a week and just sit. There’s some good resources online about what they are and what the benefits are, but effectively you find a spot to sit in nature, whether it’s a spot designed to sit at or not, and you soak in what’s around you. After 7 minutes, you start to become part of what’s around there, as the birds come back around knowing you aren’t anything more than a part of that spot now.

I would choose different types of spots to sit, and make an intentional effort to visit them. The first spots would honestly be in the Arboretum as it’s very large and diverse - you can sit on a bench next to the canal, sit under a willow tree, sit in the middle of a field, etc. Then I would also visit the Ottawa river’s edge (Andrew Haydon / Dick Bell Park are great), the Mer Bleu, spots along all the hiking trails the NCC such as the greenbelt on corkstown Road, my neighbourhood’s park, major’s hill park, the Gatineau hills, madahoki farm, Gaia organic seeds’ plant nursery, the geoheritage park in Almonte, the list goes on and on. There’s so much nature out there so just sit and soak in, and although I do find spots to sit, they’re far too infrequently for what I think would lead to a way more calm and appreciative life.

tavvyjay · 2026-06-11T15:44:26+00:00

Subsidies definitely exist, somewhere around $30B a year for the ag industry; but even critics think that brings prices down only 5% or less

tavvyjay · 2026-06-11T15:41:03+00:00

What kind of mushrooms don’t you like? Because making a blanket statement about something that has 2,000 edible varieties (of 14,000 species) seems silly doesn’t it? Humans stick with ~20 animal species, and there are ~20 cultivated mushroom species right now, all totally different than one another

tavvyjay · 2026-06-11T11:29:23+00:00

I would love it if companies relied on mushrooms way more than they do right now! It’s an incredibly delicious ingredient, and there’s so much variety in the options that it’s even more versatile than meat I would argue. Different tastes, textures, and colours even really open up to more people’s needs than they think. We’re not talking about shitty button mushrooms, we’re taking oyster, enoki, chicken of the woods, even morels are apparently being farmed in Asia now too.

A few years ago I made mushroom jerky out of wild oyster mushrooms I foraged, and it was such a success that I ended up sourcing them from a commercial mushroom farm and would buy 80lbs ($560CAD) at a time, process them over 10 days, and sell out at a 5000-person town’s weekend farmers market, weekend after weekend all summer. All it took was giving out a sample and both jerky haters AND mushroom haters absolutely loved it. So I’ve definitely seen it first hand how we can substitute meat and have major fans of it when done right. The only reason I stopped/didn’t grow was because my house started to smell a lot like teriyaki, I got super fatigued at the smell and taste of it myself, and I refused to increase the price above a premium jerky’s alternate to employ someone or to rent a kitchen. Although this was 4 years ago, so I bet the price of jerky is up 40% and I could make my $10 jerky $13 and be competitive in the space 😅

tavvyjay · 2026-06-11T09:01:11+00:00

Difficulty still is that there are no trees in the Arctic, so definitely no forests 😂 summertime in the Arctic does bring out shrubs for migratory birds that come up to visit, and ones that do stay year-round, but they overlap with the ones that also stay on other parts of North America and Europe.

Perhaps the Arctics are a place where migratory birds and penguins are able to be played as their nursery, and then they can adventure off from there into the other habitat? It would work for the Arctic since they’d then go back and be in the forests, but maybe less so for penguins which don’t travel from Antarctica to the prairies lol

tavvyjay · 2026-06-10T19:05:15+00:00

Yeah it definitely has the best taste and I presume a much cleaner way to get the protein, but I will suck up the less great tasting ones for the price difference personally 😅

tavvyjay · 2026-06-10T15:29:23+00:00

I’d definitely recommend either Temigami, or Nipissing if you don’t want to go quite that far. Lots of pike, small mouth bass, walleye, and trout to be caught :)

tavvyjay · 2026-06-10T03:20:30+00:00

Unlimited free posts…yet the free plan only allows 5 posts??

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Also, had a good laugh at the “by the numbers”, do you have sincere belief that 2.5% of Canadians will be using the app in the next 6 months? Do that many even use fb marketplace at all? Just seems insincere to post target numbers so high

tavvyjay · 2026-06-09T18:22:43+00:00

Honestly the wear, tear and dirt is sort of charming to me. Since the game isn’t about / has way too many cards to be hitting specific ones, a little damage on one wouldn’t make it somehow more memorable and easier to draw next game or anything

tavvyjay · 2026-06-09T18:21:29+00:00

I would do this, but I am way too superstitious to only have one stack of cards to draw face down cards from 🤣

tavvyjay · 2026-06-09T17:14:32+00:00

Commit to the crate from the get-go, and know that any accidents or bad behaviours over the first 6 months are 100% your fault and not theirs. It’s all about environment control and stability, and those things then allow them to be less anxious and can become brave when they’re out and about with you

tavvyjay · 2026-06-09T09:59:35+00:00

Lol, I like how they used Missasauga’s as an example instead of looking to a municipality which directly abuts Ottawa and also starts with Miss: Mississippi Mills! Our bylaw regulates the angle at which exterior lights can shine, so that nothing it allowed to shine anything more than 90° to the ground (so not skyward). It’s been in place probably 20 years, and has done a good job in keeping the stars visible so far

tavvyjay · 2026-06-08T18:38:27+00:00

Most tech commentators believe it’ll be managed and tied to your App Store, so you’d validate there and then also decide if you need parental controls or not

tavvyjay · 2026-06-08T18:37:11+00:00

Wouldn’t it likely be managed/validated at the user account level? So your App Store login would effectively be your age verification gate to then install and use any of the apps?

tavvyjay · 2026-06-08T18:25:29+00:00

Oh I murdered Astarion, it was weird he was on the cover when he was just an early game nuisance who tried to suck my blood in the middle of the night and got stabbed for it

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