Kaitiaki Hamon’s Look At Weather And The World

[NOW PLAYING] 😈 Dreams – Fleetwood Mac 😈
/soft-rock thunder for a warm Friday by slide into the weekend/

Tell one woman in your life, out loud, that she counts, because she does, and this weekend marks the day the law finally admitted it. 💛

🌤️ Intro

Hey crew, Kaitiaki Hamon here 🌳🚜, it's Friday, drop day, and Edmonton is handing us an 18-degree gift in the middle of October, so I'm soaking that up while it lasts ☀️🍂. The Hamon Art page went live on my site this week with my whānau's work front and centre 🎨, the MANAIA canvas is past 60 hours of dots and still teaching me patience 🖌️, and word is Google has started indexing kaitiakihamon.com, which feels like the little site that could finally getting its boots on 🌐. Inside today's blog you'll find the 5 Things Most Pro Landscapers Won't Tell You, Today's Message, Today's Weather, the Star Wars galaxy forecast, the Daily Landscaping LOL, the Deep Dive, and Ron Hairemy's Songs That Guarantee LAWNgevity 🎶. Let's ride. 🚀

🛠️ 5 Things Most Pro Landscapers Won't Tell You

1. 🌿🛠️ Lift and store your dahlia, canna and gladiolus tubers after the first frost
2. 🌿🛠️ Build a sand-and-oil bucket to clean your hand tools
3. 🌿🛠️ Sow winter rye on empty vegetable beds right now
4. 🌿🛠️ Move latex paint, caulk and liquid chemicals into heated storage before the cold nights hit
5. 🌿🛠️ Clear wet leaves out of window wells and away from the foundation before freeze-up

👇 Continue reading to learn more, the full breakdown on all five is waiting for you after the joke.

🌟 Today's Message: Women Are Persons: The Famous Five

Let me tell you about five Alberta women who refused to accept the answer they'd been given 🇨🇦💪. Emily Murphy of Edmonton, the first female magistrate in the British Empire 👩‍⚖️, had her sights on the Senate, but she kept hitting the same wall: under the British North America Act, only "qualified persons" could be appointed, and the government of the day insisted women simply weren't persons under the law 🚧. Imagine being told by your own country's rulebook that you don't legally count as a person 😤. Murphy didn't sulk about it, she recruited. She brought together Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, writers, legislators and organizers, every one of them a force in her own right 🌟, and on August 27, 1927, the five of them petitioned Ottawa to put the question to the Supreme Court: does the word "persons" include female persons? 📜

The challenge they were up against was bigger than one Senate seat 🧱. Most Canadian women could vote by then, some could sit in provincial legislatures and even the House of Commons, but the Senate door stayed locked, and the logic locking it said half the country stood outside the legal definition of a person 🔒. In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada answered their question with a unanimous "no" ❌. Five weeks of argument, centuries of tradition cited, and the door slammed. A lot of movements would have died right there on the courthouse steps 💔. The Famous Five treated "no" as a comma, not a period, they appealed over the Supreme Court's head to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, then the highest court of appeal in the British Empire ⚖️🌍.

That decision to act, to take the fight one court higher instead of going home, changed the country 🇨🇦✨. On October 18, 1929, ninety-seven years ago this Sunday, the Privy Council overturned the Supreme Court and ruled that women are "qualified persons," eligible for the Senate 🎉. The judgment called the exclusion of women from public office a relic of days more barbarous than ours, and its "living tree" view of the Constitution still shapes Canadian law today 🌳⚖️. Cairine Wilson became Canada's first woman senator in 1930. The bittersweet footnote: Emily Murphy herself never got the seat, she was passed over, and died in 1933 without sitting in the chamber she opened for everyone after her 🕯️. She built a door she never walked through, and she built it anyway.

The lasting impact is written into the country itself 💛. October is Women's History Month in Canada, October 18 is Persons Day, the Famous Five stand in bronze on Parliament Hill and in Calgary, and their faces have graced the fifty-dollar bill 🏛️. Every woman who has sat in the Senate since 1930 walked through the opening those five Albertans pried loose with a petition and sheer refusal to quit 🔥. So here's my call to action: this Persons Day weekend, learn one of their names properly, Murphy, McClung, McKinney, Edwards, Parlby, and pass the story on to a young person in your life 📣. Rights don't drift forward on their own; somebody has to push. Forward is always a choice, and that means YOU too!

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(Canada)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/163/8/1026
https://www.slaw.ca/2006/10/18/anniversary-of-the-famous-five-persons-case/

🌤️ Today's Weather

Edmonton: Today: A gift of a fall day 🎁🍂, starting chilly at 2°C with humidity around 77%, then climbing through a partly cloudy morning to a high of 18°C under mostly sunny skies by mid-afternoon ☀️. Rain chance 0%, wind light from the SSW at 8–9 km/h, humidity dropping into the low 30s as it warms, and a clear, mild evening sliding back to a low of 6°C 🌙. The vibe: bonus summer in a hoodie-and-shorts argument with itself 😄. For work and yard, this is the warmest dry window left on the calendar, anything involving digging, lifting tubers, or hauling leaves happens TODAY, not next week 💪. Scale of the Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!" (15 to 25°C) 👖

Aotearoa (Auckland): Today: Spring doing its thing across the Pacific 🌏🌸, mostly sunny, high of 16°C and low of 9°C, currently sitting around 9°C with humidity near 69% and a SSE breeze at 10 km/h that builds through the day into gusty SSW winds 🌬️. Rain chance essentially 0%, UV climbing high by midday ☀️. The vibe: bright, breezy, classic Auckland spring, layers on, layers off 🔄. For mindset, it's the mirror image of home: they're planting while we're putting beds to sleep, and both jobs reward the people who move while the weather's kind 🌱. Scale of the Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!" (15 to 25°C) 👖

📅 Next 5 Days: Edmonton – Aeoteroa

Saturday, Oct 17, Edmonton: Mostly cloudy, high 17°C / low 3°C, rain 0%, humidity ~42%, but the wind wakes up, WSW at 25–26 km/h 🌬️. Still a workable outdoor day; tie down anything light. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!" | Aotearoa: Mostly sunny, high 16°C / low 9°C, rain 0%, SSW winds gusting hard by evening ☀️💨. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!"

Sunday, Oct 18, Edmonton: Mostly sunny, high 13°C / low 0°C, first brush with freezing overnight 🥶, W wind at 17 km/h, rain 0%. Tender anything needs to be in or covered by dark. Pantaloon: L6: "Don't Judge If You See Me in Some Tacky Khakis" (10 to 15°C) | Aotearoa: Sunny, high 18°C / low 11°C, rain 10%, SSW at 23 km/h ☀️. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!"

Monday, Oct 19, Edmonton: Cloudy, high 11°C / low 0°C, rain 0% by day with a 10% wintry chance overnight, ENE wind at 10 km/h ☁️. Grey and cooling, indoor-shop and paperwork weather creeping in. Pantaloon: L6: "Don't Judge If You See Me in Some Tacky Khakis" | Aotearoa: Partly cloudy, high 18°C / low 11°C, rain 10%, SW at 24 km/h 🌤️. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!"

Tuesday, Oct 20, Edmonton: Partly cloudy, high 11°C / low −1°C, first sub-zero night of this stretch ❄️, rain 10%, WNW wind at 11 km/h. Anything freeze-sensitive still outside is living on borrowed time. Pantaloon: L6: "Don't Judge If You See Me in Some Tacky Khakis" | Aotearoa: Mostly sunny, high 19°C / low 12°C, rain 10%, SW at 18 km/h ☀️. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!"

Wednesday, Oct 21, Edmonton: Mostly sunny rebound, high 15°C / low 1°C, rain 10%, S wind at 13 km/h 🌤️. One more kind day before the late-week slide, use it. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!" | Aotearoa: Partly cloudy, high 18°C / low 12°C, rain 10%, SW at 26 km/h 🌬️. Pantaloon: L7: "Bust Out the Booty Shorts, Baby!"

⭐ Star Wars Galaxy Forecast: The Coming Week

Out past the Rim, the week opens on Atollon 🌅, warm, golden and calm at 18 degrees of pure bonus-season, with the ancient Bendu sitting in the haze reminding every crew that balance is a weather pattern too 🌀. Saturday the winds pick up over the slave markets of Zygerria 💨, 17 and gusting, hold onto your cargo and your temper. Sunday turns cold and shadowed on Moraband the ancient Sith homeworld 🏜️⚫, sunny enough by day at 13, but the night drops to zero and the valleys whisper; cover anything tender, the dark side frosts 🌙. Monday stays grey over the ocean world of Glee Anselm 🌊☁️, 11 degrees and cloudy with the Nautolan tides running cold. Tuesday the chill deepens on the heist plains of Aldhani 🏔️, 11 by day, −1 by night, the kind of cold that tests whether your rebellion packed a proper coat ❄️. Then Wednesday rebounds bright over the prison seas of Narkina 🌤️, 15 and mostly sunny, one clear day to move product before the late-week slide rolls in. On your feet, all week, the Empire of Winter is coming, but it is not here yet 🚀.

😂 The Daily Landscaping LOL

A man is driving home from work 🚗💨 when his phone rings 📱. It's his wife, and she sounds PANICKED 😱

"Honey, be careful!" she says. "I just heard on the news there's a car going the WRONG WAY down the highway!!" 🚨

The man glances up, grips the wheel tighter 😳, and says:

"One car?! … Darling, there's HUNDREDS of them!!" 🤣🚗🚗🚗

🛠️🌿 The Deep Dive: 5 Things Most Pro Landscapers Won't Tell You 🌿🛠️

1. Lift and store your dahlia, canna and gladiolus tubers after the first frost 🌺
Dahlias, cannas and glads are not Zone 3 hardy, leave them in Edmonton ground and winter turns the tubers to mush. Wait until the first frost blackens the foliage (that hit is what signals the plant to pull its energy down), then dig carefully with a fork well outside the clump, cure them a few days somewhere dry and airy, and store them in barely-dry peat or perlite at 4–7°C. Label every variety before storage, in spring, every tuber looks identical and your memory is lying to you.

2. Build a sand-and-oil bucket to clean your hand tools 🪣
Fill a 5-gallon bucket with dry sand and stir in just enough oil (linseed or even clean vegetable oil) to make it feel like damp beach sand. Every time you finish with a shovel, spade or pruners, plunge the blade in and out a few times, the sand scours off soil and sap, and the thin oil film left behind stops rust cold. Tools stored all winter after a sand-bucket pass come out in spring clean and sharp-ish instead of orange and seized, and it takes ten seconds a tool.

3. Sow winter rye on empty vegetable beds right now 🌾
Bare garden soil in Alberta spends winter getting wind-scoured and freeze-thaw beaten, and spring finds it crusted and lifeless. Winter rye is the toughest cover crop there is, it germinates in soil as cold as about 1°C, so a mid-October sowing still takes, and it holds the bed with living roots all winter, suppresses early weeds, and gets tilled in come spring as free organic matter. Broadcast it thick, rake it in shallow, and let today's warm spell do the rest.

4. Move latex paint, caulk and liquid chemicals into heated storage before the cold nights hit 🎨
Sunday and Monday nights are touching 0°C and Tuesday drops to −1°C, and one hard freeze quietly ruins a fortune in supplies. Latex paint that freezes turns to cottage-cheese lumps and never recovers, caulking and adhesives separate or skin over in the cartridge, and liquid fertilizers and pesticides can split their containers as they expand. Ten minutes today moving it all into a heated space saves re-buying it in spring at spring prices.

5. Clear wet leaves out of window wells and away from the foundation before freeze-up 🍂
A window well full of wet leaves is a dam, not a decoration, it traps meltwater against the foundation and the basement window, and once that soggy mass freezes it expands right where you least want pressure. Same story for leaf mats piled against foundation walls and stairwells: they hold moisture against concrete through every freeze-thaw cycle of winter. Today's dry 18°C is the day to rake them out, check the well drains are clear, and send that water away from the house instead of storing it against the wall.

🎶 Ron Hairemy's Songs That Guarantee LAWNgevity 🎵🌱🔥

Pop royalty, a beard anthem, Viking oars in the water, Pac at his most haunted, Kiwi gold, and my favourite song of all time standing in the Spotlight like it pays rent there. This is the good stuff, crew.

🎸 Momentum
😂 Morale
🧠 Focus
⚔️ Endurance
🎤 Reflection
🌌 Creativity

All music. No filler.
(Except comedy… because everybody needs a laugh.)
No Nickelback.
No Slipknot.
No T-Swizzle.
As it should be.

Canadian Track'O'The Day: "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" by Shania Twain (clean ✅). Shania, born in Windsor and raised in Timmins, Ontario, is simply the best-selling female artist in country music history, and this was the first single from her 2002 album Up! written with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange 🇨🇦🎤. Pure confidence set to a country-pop strut, for me this is Friday energy in song form: decide what you're going after, say it out loud, and go get it. Play it rolling into the weekend with the windows down while Edmonton pretends it's still September ☀️🚗.

Today's Musical Funny-Bone: "If Your Dad Doesn't Have A Beard, You've Got Two Mums" by The Beards (clean ✅, the studio version). The Beards are an Australian comedy-rock band who built an entire career, multiple albums, international tours, out of songs celebrating beards and absolutely nothing else 🧔🎸. This track makes their airtight legal argument with total sincerity and a driving rock beat, and it cracks me up every single time because the commitment to the bit is total. Play it when the day needs its seriousness surgically removed 😂.

Hair Whippin', Head Bangin', Finger Blazin' Therapy: "Fate of Norns" by Amon Amarth (clean ✅). Sweden's Amon Amarth have been flying the Viking flag over melodic death metal since the '90s, out of Tumba, and this is the title track of their 2004 album Fate of Norns ⚔️🇸🇪. The Norns are the three weavers who spin the fate of gods and men at the foot of Yggdrasil, which ties it straight into today's message, honestly: fate gets woven, but somebody still has to do the weaving 🧵. Play it when there's heavy lifting left and the day isn't done with you yet 💪.

Tongue Trippin', Bar Spittin', Beat Killin' Bars: "Troublesome '96" by 2Pac (explicit 🔞, classic Pac, raw language throughout, noted honestly). Tupac Shakur recorded this in 1996 and it surfaced on his Greatest Hits in 1998, all defiance and forward motion over a hard West Coast bounce 🎤🔥. For me, this is the sound of refusing the answer you were handed: the whole track is a man declining to be counted out, which is exactly the Famous Five frequency in a different key. Play it when somebody's "no" needs answering with work, not words 😤.

Māori Track / Aotearoa Pick: "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House (clean ✅). Full honesty on the heritage note: Crowded House formed in Melbourne but were led by New Zealander Neil Finn, who is Pākehā, not Māori, so today's pick is a Kiwi classic in the Aotearoa slot rather than a Māori-artist track, and I'm noting that straight 🇳🇿. Written by Finn and released in 1986, it became one of the great enduring anthems out of Aotearoa: a song about holding on while the walls get built between people. Given what five women in Alberta were up against in today's message, "don't dream it's over" might as well be the week's motto for me 🌏💛. Play it on the drive home, windows up against the fall air, thinking big.

Ron Hairemy Spotlight: "The Wicker Man" by Iron Maiden (clean ✅). The opening track from 2000's Brave New World by the reunion album that brought singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith back into Maiden, and proof a band can come back heavier than it left 🤘🇬🇧. Named for the 1973 folk-horror film, it gallops straight out of the gate and never lets up. This one's from my all-time faves for a reason: for me it's the sound of a second act done properly, no apology, just riffs. Play it loud enough that the neighbours get a free show 🎸🔥.

That's the goal. That's LAWNgevity. 🌱🔥

🌅 Conclusion

The Famous Five never got to enjoy most of what they won, and they pushed anyway, which is the part I'm carrying into this weekend 💛. So here's the pro move stitched to it: use today's 18-degree gift to lift those tubers, clear those window wells and get the paint inside, because Sunday night's frost is already on the calendar ❄️. Shoutout to every person who's ever been told they don't count and answered with paperwork, patience and nerve 📜💪. Forward really is a choice, make it while the sun's out ☀️. If you liked today's blog, be sure to star, speak out, and stay a while for updates. Until next time, this has been Kaitiaki Hamon. Keep your stick on the ice. And may the Force be with you. Always! Ka kite, landscaping whānau!

Sincerely,
Kaitiaki Hamon (Ron Hairemy)

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