Just because your swing isn’t a home run doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the swing. Let me give you an example. Just because it is not sunny all day, every day doesn’t mean you should not invest in a solar panel system for your home. It also isn’t always windy. Maybe the tides aren’t going […]
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Breakfast at Wendy’s; Follow Up
I recently posted about the new Wendy’s breakfast menu and the pictures I shared were total garbage – probably a result of me touching the camera lens with a greasy finger! So of course, in the name of journalist integrity, I had to try more of the Wendy’s breakfast menu. You know, just to get […]
Tips to Deal With High Gas Prices
With gas prices continuing to increase, believe it or not, there are easy ways to save money on gas. Although there are many things you can do to avoid spending money on gas, there is some low hanging fruit – the easy things you can do to control how much money you spend on gas. […]
Wendy’s Baconator; The New Breakfast Menu
Recently Wendy’s rolled out a new breakfast menu. So naturally, I had to try a couple of their items. Seeing as I am a big time fan of the Wendy’s Baconator burger, I decided to try the new Baconator Breakfast sandwich. The Breakfast Baconator is very heavy on the bacon. And unlike some other fast […]
Buying a Replacement Vehicle for my Toyota Echo
Well, seeing as my Toyota Echo now has more than 300,000 kilometers on it, I have decided it is time to start looking for a new replacement vehicle. With the price of gas going through the roof, I thought the logical thong to do is to buy an electric car. But then I did some […]
Tesla Model S Test Drive
I recently had the opportunity to go for an extended test drive in a Tesla Model S. In case you don’t know, the Model S is the Tesla sedan. It is a four door car that reminded me of an old school Crown Victoria. It felt big, heavy, and secure on the road. The Model […]
Venison Vs Farmed Salmon
Funny thing happened to me this weekend. A thing that made me go hmmmm… Let me back up a bit. Last fall a friend of mine who lives near the Kootenays – actually his home is in what is known as Boundary Country – the area between the Okanagon and the Kootenays gave me three […]
Taking a Social Media Break
Funny thing happened in late January; I decided to take a social media break – I took a hiatus from social media. My desire to take a little break was not because of the Faceplant whistleblower event that demonstrated that FB cares more about profits than about their user’s mental health. Nope. Besides, who didn’t […]
State of the Art
Here’s an interesting thought. All throughout time, when you are being “sold” something, the people doing the selling will tell you that what they are selling is “state of the art”. You know that ratty old car on the road? When someone bought it, years ago, they were told that it was state of the […]
Ramen at Ramen Bella
I am too lazy to add text so here are pics of the ramen my daughter and I had at Ramen Bella in Port Coquitlam down off Lougheed near Westwood. It was delicious. There’s also a picture of a plate of chicken karage – which was everything good. The noodle pull!! Chicken karage – crispy, […]
Happy Father’s Day to my dad. Unfortunately he is no longer with us here in his physical form. If he was, he would fit right in with all the other hipsters.
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#fathersday
1 week ago
Mowed the “lawn” today. Good to know that in times of stress and uncertainty, trees are always there to listen and make things better.
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#lawncare #cabinlifestyle #getoutside #explorebc #lifeisbetterwithtrees #trees
1 week ago
Sometime ago and for reasons unclear to me, on my birthday my mom and my sister began making birthday cakes for me as if I was a 10 year old boy.
Maybe a bit odd, but you know, it is kind of fun to have a cake like a 10 year old would enjoy! Who doesn’t like Hot-wheel cars, trucks, and diggers on a cake?!
This year my sister continued the tradition.
While going through family photos recently we found a panorama style photo of our family home before it was burned in the Lytton Fire of 2014. The photo was obviously taken before there was a panorama feature on a camera!
Anyway, my sister recreated the scene using cream cheese icing (my favourite!) and a variety of edible decorations like pretzels, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate crumble, and more.
Aren’t sisters the greatest? This one got me right in the feeling part of my heart.
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#happybirthday #birthdaycake #lyttonstrong #lytton #jeep #family #sisters #gratitude
2 weeks ago
Let’s cook. Flashback to my weekend at the cabin and pan frying potstickers over a fire using my @fieldcompany cast iron pan.
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#castironcooking #castironskillet #letscook #outdoorcooking #cabinlife #cabinvibes #cookingwithfire #getoutside #explorebc
2 weeks ago
We spent some time looking at flowers this weekend. And a big tree. A really big tree.
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#flowers #trees #bigtrees #getoutside #explorebc #wildflowers #weekendvibes #lyttonstrong #botanie
3 weeks ago
For Christmas my aunt and uncle gave me a gift card to my favourite shop.
The shop where everything not only looks sharp, but they are all sharp! Yep, @houseofknives .
Seeing as I have more than enough pocket knives and I’m more than happy with my Fusion kitchen knives, I decided to use my gift card to get a multi-tool.
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Yep. I got a new @leathermancanada Wave. This is a “life long purchase” because if you use/abuse it, the blades are replaceable.
I love that feature because honestly, when I’m on the farm, in the bush camping or hiking, or at the cabin, I like a tool or knife that I can rely on. And sometimes, some might even say I abuse my tools. To know the blades are replaceable is reassuring.
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I’ll share some pics of my new tool in use as soon as I get out of the city.
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#leatherman #leathermanwave #leathermantools #multitool #houseofknives #giftcard #cabinlifestyle #cabinlife
3 weeks ago
I tried @wendyscanada breakfast this week. I had the Baconator breakfast sandwich with a side of the seasoned potato wedges.
The breakfast sandwich was seriously good. It has a fried egg on top of a lot of bacon. Lots of bacon. Which all sits on top of a grilled sausage patty.
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The side of seasoned potatoes was good but they were cool by the time I started eating them. I know they’d taste better if I didn’t wait to eat them.
This is a serious breakfast sandwich. Very filling and very, very good taste! I couldn’t eat my lunch because I was so full from the Breakfast Baconator.
I will 100% have it again!
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#bacon #baconator #breakfastbaconator #wendys #breakfast #nomnom #potatowedges #notsponsored
4 weeks ago
Long weekend vibes from outside of Lytton for the win. Beautiful weather, food, and company. And a bear getting an up close look at the @stealthcamgsm .
And yes, I added more family heirloom cast iron pans to the pan-wall!
What did you get up to on the long weekend? Do you consider the May long weekend the unofficial start of summer?
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#maylongweekend #weekendvibes #cabinlife #cabinlifestyle #castironcooking #lyttonstrong #trailcamera
1 month ago