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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦

@biblioholic.bsky.social
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Quite possibly the hardest working retiree in the Yukon. He does more over morning coffee than you will do all day. True story. Or not.

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 2h
There’s train watching, and then there’s train collecting and the problem of where to store them #Tonoharuhigashi #Chikushino #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 9h
Watching an expert make soba noodles #Chikushino #Japan #soba
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 23h
An away day to Nokonoshima Island #Fukuoka #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some recently met friends #Chikushino #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Snail tracks! Look at ‘em go! #Chikushino #Japan #snails
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A special guest appearance on #shoppingcartsoftheYukon today…#shoppingcartsofChikushino! #Chikushino #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eastern Grey Heron #Chikushino #Japan #heron
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eye test (done by a computer and confirmed by a technician), prescription lenses (just basic, not progressive), and frames - takes about ninety minutes from when I walked into the store to when I walked out wearing them. And cost less than $90 #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Japan really is living in the future (drip coffee edition) #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t know how your day is going but mine is freakin’ awesome! #Japan #Shinkansen
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Famous for its apple orchards…and I had both an apple and some apple cider #Aomori #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I got a free Pocari Sweat when I disembarked! #Kushiro #Japan
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s time for a #baddesignWhitehorse, this time courtesy of our good friends at Air North, Yukon's Airline. The coffee cups are too big to fit into the cup indentation of the snack tray! #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A few more still passing through #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)” - Horace, The Odes of Horace #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An exotic in the ecosystem! #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“But there are causes worth dying for,’ said Butterfly. ‘No, there aren’t! Because you’ve only got one life but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner!’” - Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still inching up! #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.” - Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the many reasons why I am known in certain circles as Lil’ Dumpling
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And now a public service announcement on behalf of Baked Cafe & Bakery #Whitehorse #Yukon #LabourDay
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The anticipation is over! The multipurpose trail on the southeast island of the South Access Road/Alaska Hwy intersection has been paved! All 15 metres of it! #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same…” - Little Boxes, by Malvina Reynolds #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Up another ten!!! Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pineapple vanilla swirl at Riverside Grocery! Plus a great view #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows, fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze; by and by the harvest and the labor ended— we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.” - Knowles Shaw, Bringing in the Sheaves #Whitehorse #Yukon #harvest
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Foreshadowing…
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still going up!!! Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, someone is having fun with the labelling at The Independent #justsaynotoAfghangrapefruit
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A minor repair has been carried out on the Alaska Hwy Multiuse Trail on the eroded bit south of Norseman Road. However, no repairs on the section opposite the Weigh Scale where the runway south end construction access has destroyed the asphalt path #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Rejoice! The Millennium Trail eroded riverbank bypass section is now complete and open to quests! #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street.” - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Over 900!!! Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Becker Peak. And we got snowed on! With MW. Hike details at yukonhiking.ca/becker_peak.... #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great excitement! Looks like a very short section of separated bike/pedestrian lane is going in the SE island corner section of the South Access Road/Alaska Hwy intersection #Whitehorse #Yukon #activetransportation
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Too soon? #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New frying pan, new me!!!
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ooh! Maybe we’ll break 900? Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Over 800!!! Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And so it begins… #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lunar eclipse! #Whitehorse #Yukon #lunareclipse
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Another day, another big number! #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rant of the day! Why are North American vehicles so large? Apart from the wasted energy in making and moving them, think of the unnecessary acres of parking required. #cardietnow!
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“…the sidewalk must have users on it fairly continuously, both to add to the number of effective eyes on the street and to induce the people in buildings along the street to watch the sidewalks...” - Jane Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Miserable days call for homemade pasta…served with homemade pesto if you must know #pasta #pesto
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dinner time! …and one of us has an automatic feeder
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Harvest time! #Whitehorse #Yukon
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How high will it go?!?!?! Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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