Muskoka Condo Ten

05/25/2026

06:00 skunk siting in front of building A. Beware early dog walkers. Give it a wide pass.
Twice in the last week.

05/24/2026

Pillbugs look like garden lint with legs, but they are tiny land crustaceans doing underground sanitation work.

The real detail is stranger than their little armored curl.

They breathe with gill-like structures, which is why they haunt damp soil, rotten leaves, and the cool underside of stones like unpaid basement inspectors.

As they feed on decaying plant matter, some pillbugs can accumulate metals such as lead, cadmium, copper, and zinc inside their bodies, locking away pollution that would otherwise keep moving through the soil.

That does not make them magical cleanup machines. It makes them quiet indicators of what the ground has been carrying.

No bite. No sting. No disease-spreading villain arc.

Just a small gray recycler turning dead leaves into better dirt while carrying more environmental baggage than it deserves.

Tiny armor, gentle purpose, and a job nobody notices until the soil gets healthier.

05/24/2026

Slow down for snakes and turtles.....

Today is World Turtle Day. 🐢 Turtles are out crossing roads from now through early July, laying eggs in the gravel shoulders of every cottage country highway. Pull over. Help them across.
Cindy wrote a piece about how to do it . We made a tee.

05/09/2026

05/09/2026

15 years of empty feeders, and the visitor that finally found us:

https://www.puremuskoka.com/blogs/journal/some-things-take-time-hummingbirds

05/09/2026

Subtle reminder.

05/03/2026

Happy 95th John!

05/03/2026

May 3rd is Paranormal Day. Stay calm.

04/23/2026

Recent redrawing of a 1979 greeting card of mine.

04/23/2026