Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 13/10/2026Dear universe: If we could fast-track an inexpensive Star Trek "hypospray" gadget for at-home medical use, I'd appreciate it! --signed, a needlephobe 020
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 11/10/2026Mr Wood Frog cheating death by lawnmower. #BackyardWildlife 020
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 10/10/2026Started “playing” Stray (#PS5). Was not prepared for the emotional heaviness of an orange tabby lost in a post-apocalyptic underworld. annapurnainteractive.com/games/strayannapurnainteractive.comStray - Annapurna InteractiveAnnapurna Interactive works with game creators from around the world, helping them create and release personal experiences for everyone. 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 09/10/2026Disability PSA featuring Phoebe, a CH kitty: Cerebellar hypoplasia, aka wobby cat syndrome ~ c/o Reddit r/NervySquervies www.reddit.com/r/nervysquer...reddit.comFrom the nervysquervies community on Reddit: Phoebe changed the way I view disabilities 💛Explore this post and more from the nervysquervies community 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/10/2026More heat pumps, great. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Do balcony solar systems next, please! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony...cbc.caOttawa to provide $2B in rebates for homeowners who install heat pumps | CBC NewsThe federal government is launching a $2-billion rebate program that it says will help homeowners in Canada lower their annual heating costs while reducing emissions when they install heat pumps in th... 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/10/2026Reddit: Answering life's most important questions since 2005. 000
Reposted by Vincent GrovestineMomo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026❌ AI generated slop menus with pictures that make your food look like worms ✅ scribbles on a piece of paper saying how much the soup cost 414828947
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/10/2026Officemate and lap-warmer... A remarkable amount of snoring for such a little dog too. 🧑💻🐾💤 #WFH #chihuahua 030
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/10/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comPaw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruitChihuahua Comando is being trained for search-and-rescue work, and helping bring a warm connection with the public 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/10/2026Sunny day, bit breezy... Sure, let's liven things up with a couple power dips. Thanks NSP, you never fail to impress. 🙄 200
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 05/10/2026If you can subscribe online, you should be able to cancel online: Nearly twenty minutes on the phone... Upsells, discounts, promos... Augh! F*** retentions; just terminate the g-d account already. 😤 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 05/10/2026Fleece blanket, heated magic bag, and a chihuahua on my lap...yet still cold. October has hardly started and I'm already fed up with dreary, damp fall weather. 130
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 27/09/202645 minutes into the first baseboard heater swap: Electrical, no problem. Whoever did the initial rough-work, however, appears to have used "precision tools." Perhaps a hammer and a screwdriver instead of a drywall saw. And measurements in hand spans and finger widths instead of using a ruler. 🏠🔨🪛🤏⚡🤦 140
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 27/09/2026This is why I play games alone... #MarioKartWorld #Switch2: What a bunch of dirty online players! 🎮🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🍄🐢💥🏁🙎 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 26/09/2026Having a bad day? Here are some meerkats on deck chairs... www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...reddit.comFrom the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Meerkats get their own DeckchairsExplore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 23/09/2026Brief moment of "ummm... I don't think that's going to fit in the car!", so I have all but one replacement heater. The basement will have to wait until I can arrange delivery. 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 23/09/2026Today’s mystery of home ownership: What is the life expectancy of an electric baseboard heater? Searching for answers turns up anything from 15 to 30 years or, scientifically speaking, whenever it breaks. To which I ask, how does something with no moving parts “break”? 🥶🥵🏠🤷 220
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 22/09/2026Folks who write documentation for a living, how the heck do you do it? My brain is wired for logic problems, not wordsmithing. I need a monkey thought translator or something. 🐵 + 💭 + 🤖 = ...Steve! 000
Reposted by Vincent GrovestineArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17/09/2026AI will take over the boring work! What could go wrong?static.klipy.comMickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and BroomAlt: Mickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and Broom 27820
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 10/09/2026Dunno of it's local atmospheric conditions or they've packed extra oomps in the training munitions, but Camp Aldershot goes *BOOM* this morning! My dogs are jittery wrecks. Noise being heard (and felt) from Kentville to Canning per Facebook chatter. 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 09/09/2026Neighbours have lit their wood stove. It's too soon! 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/09/2026Your periodic reminder that this is the greatest mashup of all time: Lobsterdust - Stayin' Hot (Nelly vs Bee Gees) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd2T... #ListeningTo (belated) #MusicMondayyoutube.comNelly vs. Bee Gees - Stayin' Hot (lobsterdust mashup)YouTube video by lobsterdust 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/09/2026When worlds collide: Sarek is Charles Ingalls’ brother. 🖖👨🌾 #StarTrek vs #LittleHouseOnThePrairie (s3e6) 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/09/2026About 6 dozen oatmeal cookies on deck courtesy of the last of the garden zucchini. (...thank dog!) I swear, I'm not planting zucchini next year--I'm sick of the stuff. 🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒😵💫🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🤢 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/09/2026Having a bad day? Here's a clip of a squirrel trying to bury a nut **in** a Bernese Mountain Dog. www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...reddit.comFrom the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Squirrel trying to hide his nut in the dogExplore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 04/09/2026Dialect Map quiz making its rounds this morning, so what the heck... Unsurprisingly, northeast is where I landed. mydialect.us/quiz-standar... ~~ Now, if we could just convince the devs to extend it from US to Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, etc. for a comprehensive global comparison. 🤔 010
Reposted by Vincent GrovestineArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 03/09/2026You want a piece of me? Huh, hoomin??? Squirrel of the Day for September 3, 2026 #sqrlpix 78211
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 01/09/2026Someone got stung by a yellowjacket and now has to wear the cone of shame. He is not pleased. 🐝🐶😣 350
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 01/09/2026Want to make millions? Someone please invent a device that I can point at stuff around the house to stop the g-d incessant cacophony of beeps, jingles, chimes, buzzes and other such notifications squabbling for my attention! Bonus if it quiets neurotic neighborhood dogs and vehicle exhausts too. 🙉🤬 140
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026Pulled out the spent zucchini and cucumber plants. Waiting on tomatoes to ripen. Sunflowers were late, but they're blooming. My poor mini-melons though... They're still green and the vine is drying out. 🧑🌾🍈😿 Anyone got a recipe for underripe cantaloupe? 110
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026Case of the Mondays? Here's a bit of Canadiana randomness: Tom Green and Steven Page covering "Maybe Tomorrow (Theme to the Littlest Hobo)" 🇨🇦📺🐕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p13...youtube.comTom Green & Steven Page | Maybe Tomorrow (The Littlest Hobo Theme) | Official Music VideoYouTube video by Tom Green 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026Folk discussing their Halloween movie lists... Bah! I've cracked into //Scrooge-a-Thon 2026// already: 1951 (Alastair Sim) and 1935 (Seymour Hicks), watched and watched. 🎃🙅🎄👍 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 29/08/2026Wait... What? Ewww! -- Courtesy of a local farm market, behold their weekend special: A melted butter sundae. 🧈🧂🍨🤢 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 26/08/2026Question for those rural-living, middle-age folk who have lost weight with purpose, but not become protein-pounders and gym rats, what are your secrets? Need to drop some pounds and improve my baseline cardio, but I want to do so like a normal person, not a born-again health nut. Advice welcome. 🤷 600
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 25/08/2026**RAIN** and reduced visibility -- Get the ark out of the garage, we're under a pink blob on RadarScope. Nary a rumble of thunder though, which is quite surprising. #NSwx near #Kentville 110
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 25/08/2026Holy jumbo raindrops! Noisy enough that I had to close my office window because I couldn't concentrate. Also have one heck of a nervous pup now. 🌧️ #NSwx near #Kentville 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026The audible outburst of shock and excitement when my wife discovered that "Lucha Underground" has been added to Prime Video... 👹🤼🙀 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026Backyard garden is just beginning to wind down. Peas and beans are long done, zucchini are slowing down (thank dog!), Halloween pumpkin is well on its way (10" and growing), and then there's these little guys -- snack size cantaloupe; just a smidge bigger than a baseball. 020
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026Today's lesson learned the hard way: Don't trust Internet baking recipe measurements for fresh produce. I don't know what sort of shrivelled up zucchini the author gets from the grocery store, but my backyard zuc ain't the same. Rolled cookie dough shouldn't be the consistency of stodgy cake batter! 210
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 20/08/2026I have absolutely no focus this morning...none. 🎷🐴 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYz...static.klipy.comFather Ted My Lovely Horse Sax SoloALT: Father Ted My Lovely Horse Sax Solo 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 20/08/2026In case anyone else ever needs to do the math: a 40' spruce tree yields approx 1 cubic yard of wood chips (incl branches and 10-12" trunk). The arborist wasn't kidding when he told me not to expect that much "free" mulch in the end. 🌲🪚🍟🤏 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 18/08/2026At 23C, 80% RH, and calm wind with cloudy, mosquito-laden, skies; I think it might be more oppressive outside for yardwork than it was when it was 30C+ recently! #NSwx near #Kentville 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 18/08/2026The pups' archnemesis was following behind us, so we hopped off the road and finished our walk on the neighbourhood trail. Lucky that we did... Discovered scads of wild blackberry bushes within easy reach (ergo, minimal tick risk). Guess it'll be me and a bucket in the woods after work today! 020
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 17/08/2026#MondayMoodstatic.klipy.comFrustrated Monkey at LaptopALT: Frustrated Monkey at Laptop 010
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 16/08/2026Does anyone have a favorite (and foolproof) zucchini bread/muffin recipe to share? Mine always come out too dense or stodgy -- but I'm drowning in veg, so I've gotta use them for something! 000
Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 14/08/2026Another angry day in the skies: Can see thunderheads building over the Parrsboro area from my vantage on the eastern Annapolis Valley floor. Currently 22.3C, 58% RH, winds 4G12 kph, 1008mb, mainly sunny. #NSwx near #Kentville 000