Monday 8 April 2013

45 in the shade

Definitely,warming up, here in  S. On. A dreary day, w/ overcast sits over T.O.
The snow has melted where it piled up. The landslides off the roof accumulated just out from the house, so I spread snow out and around on the lawn.

Bird flu is breaking out in China, more deaths each day. The big concern ( s ) deal with transmission and especially cross species movement. No pigs , yet in the picture unless its farm workers.

Good news -rare to obscure in the feeds - death and taxes, sell.

However, T.O. zoo has pandas. The 2 pandas made front page b/c
the black and whites are on loan from China , they will breed ( we hope ) and the b &w s received an official welcome from our Prime Minister ( great photo op, a primate greets big racoon ).
The b & w s will stay for 5 years and will create a chance for greater discussions between Canada and China.
Well, China owns 40 % of the U.S. why not 40 % of Canada ( right now, China is a 20 % owner of Canada ) Especially, the Chinese from Hong Kong who came in the 90 s to diffuse their potential loss as HK reverted to Chinese control.
The HK ers bought up prime real estate and raised housing prices that have yet to fall.
Here, in T.O. house prices have risen in the last quarter and year over year but the # of sales is down by 17 %.

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