OMG can it be true? Can there be Deadpool fans out there who are not aware of “Once Upon a Deadpool”, the PG-13 version of Deadpool 2? Shocked “Home Alone” facial expression?😮

Hi,

( looks up from colouring )

i know eh?😮I was surprised to meet one too!

How can this be?

jothatsshortforjo to the rescue.

Fred: I kind of prefer Marvel movies.

Deadpool: We are Marvel.

Fred: Yeah but you’re Marvel licensed by Fox, that’s kind of like if the Beatles were produced by Nickelback, it’s still music but it sucks

Deadpool: Eeewww , you were nicer as a kid!

Poems & Words

Today some of the history of Salt Spring Island, and a beautiful story to go with it.

Henry Ruckle emigrated from Ireland to Ontario, then California, before finally homesteading on Salt Spring Island in 1872, marrying Ella Anna Christensen in 1877. Their descendants have farmed the Salt Spring property for more than a century and, although they donated most of their property to the province for a park in 1974, the Ruckle family still raises sheep on private land near the entrance to the campground. Continuous use of this land for farming purposes from the 1890s until today makes the Ruckle Farm the oldest continually operating farm in British Columbia. The heritage farm features a number of old farm buildings, including a barn, a forge, the old pig sty, and the original homestead residence.

The old homestead was built by Henry Ruckle prior to bringing his bride and her son Alfred to the farm in 1877.

In the 1990s I had the fortunate circumstance to make the acquaintance of one of Henry Ruckles great grand descendants.

According to them, there was no medical facility on the island at that time. In fact the first hospital was not established until 1914. The year was 1878 and Ella was almost nine months pregnant. Henry and Ella travelled to Victoria by canoe for the birth of their first child. This journey took three days. Imagine the amazing courage and love for each other to make this incredible journey.

I love this story because I can envision the two travelling together, and the deep bonding of shared heroic experience .❤️

Thanks to BC Parks, Tourism Salt Spring, Getty Images and Hayden Barry.

Special thanks to Nancy Ruckle for sharing the story.

This good advice applies to all of your family members, the hot weather is coming be prepared. :)

i have put lil bowls of water all over the house and will hide lil treats everywhere so that my dogs can drink enough on these extremely warm days and have something nice to look for and distract them

Some of my photos. Please enjoy 😉

Some of my photos. Please enjoy 😉

Some of my photos. Please enjoy. More of my photos on IG please follow johead444.

“ Melancholy Woman“ was painted during Picassos blue period well before his invention of cubism.

Pablo Picasso

This is the amazing Jewel Wasp.

The jewel wasp enslaves cockroaches, stinging their brains in ridiculously precise spots and injecting mind controlling venom. The wasp then leads its zombified roach to a chamber, where it lays a single egg on its perfectly relaxed host and seals it inside with pebbles. Here the larva bores into the roach and feeds off of its organs before killing it and emerging from its corpse into the light of day.

Thanks to Matt Simon, Wired Magazine and an unknown photographer for the above. Parasitic insects use venom for prey capture and prey manipulation: jewel wasps bite cockroaches first to paralyze the roach's front legs and then bite a second time right into the brain to turn the roach into a zombie. These envenomated roaches meticulously clean themselves and allow the mother wasp to walk them roach a hole, lay an egg on top of its body, bury it, and the newly hatched larva to consume it, all while the roach is still alive. Why keep this animal alive? You know, to keep the food as fresh as possible.

Today, while on break, I was doing some reading on the technical name for toxins that don't need to enter by ingestion or needle injection (poison) or through a wound via a bite (ie. venom. Note: venom can also be collected and injected via a syringe - but this is incredibly rare.) Unlike poisons, venom becomes inactive in most cases if ingested, hence why we tend to think of poisons as toxins we ingest (drink, consume via contaminated food etc.) and venom as linked to wounds created via bites of toxic animals, such as black mambas and black widow spiders.

However, recently a third category or term has been added: a toxin that straddles both poisons and venoms and penetrates via the skin but does not require an open wound or a mucous membrane and rapid delivery into the blood stream or across the blood-brain barrier to do so.

And that term is toxungen. See chart below.

Whew. I can now resume watching The Mentalist without feeling as if Bruno Heller and Co. have been lying to me for years.

babe are you ok?? You’ve barely touched your goodwill jellybean of dubious origin!!

This is the amazing Jewel Wasp.

The jewel wasp enslaves cockroaches, stinging their brains in ridiculously precise spots and injecting mind controlling venom. The wasp then leads its zombified roach to a chamber, where it lays a single egg on its perfectly relaxed host and seals it inside with pebbles. Here the larva bores into the roach and feeds off of its organs before killing it and emerging from its corpse into the light of day.

Thanks to Matt Simon, Wired Magazine and an unknown photographer for the above. Parasitic insects use venom for prey capture and prey manipulation: jewel wasps bite cockroaches first to paralyze the roach's front legs and then bite a second time right into the brain to turn the roach into a zombie. These envenomated roaches meticulously clean themselves and allow the mother wasp to walk them roach a hole, lay an egg on top of its body, bury it, and the newly hatched larva to consume it, all while the roach is still alive. Why keep this animal alive? You know, to keep the food as fresh as possible. Who sees Hannibal Lecter here?

This lovely structure is the third Avenue complex, in Dawson city Yukon. Note the permafrost damage.

In Dawson City's history, permafrost ranks second only to fire as the bane of buildings. These three dating from 1901, once a hotel, photography studio and hardware store, illustrate what can happen when heated buildings are placed on frozen ground: the frost melts, mixing water with the soil to form a very fluid muck into which the different footings settle at different rates. No restoration measures have been taken with these buildings so that visitors may experience history as it naturally unfolds.

From Wikipedia

Blue-ringed octopuses, comprising the genus Hapalochlaena, are four highly venomous species of octopus that are found in tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia.

These adorable octopuses are some of the world's most venomous creatures. These centimeter long animals can easily kill a person in minutes with just one bite. What makes their venom so dangerous to humans? TTX the same as found in pufferfish. I’ve been having a discussion with my friend regarding toxungens,  essentially a subcategory of poisons that doesn’t require a traditional delivery system like a bite or ingestion. In jest I suggested ( sugjested?:) that toxungens were invented by the infamous Doctor Leng of “The Cabinet of Curiosities” fame. In the case of Dr. Leng, the toxin was intended to be used as not a defence mechanism but a weapon of offense. And if he wasn’t the inventor of toxungens , he had certainly perfected his own unique variety. And he did it using both venoms and poisons from his vast collection of insects, lizards, bats, and poisonous species of all kinds. I realize I’m talking about a fictional character. Here is another fictional character you will recognize.

actually, i’m no longer interested in what the difference between platonic and romantic love is, that’s none of my business