Category: Getting Outside
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Making a Farmhouse Kitchen Table
I decided to make myself a new “farmhouse style” kitchen table for my cabin from a couple of bug-killed trees I cut down around my cabin years ago. After cutting the trees down, my friend and I used an Alaskan-Sawmill and milled the trees into dimensional lumber. That was 10 or 15 years ago and…
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Day Two Traveling the Fraser Canyon
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The Scenic 7 to the Fraser Canyon
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Coquitlam’s Lights at Lafarge Winter Lights Display
A selection of free pop-up activities and special theme nights will add to the magic of Coquitlam’s Lights at Lafarge Winter Lights Display. This year’s display includes hundreds of thousands of lights, and many of the features have been hand-crafted by community members as well as city staff, often using recycled materials such as milk…
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A Day of Theatre; Evergreen Cultural Centre and the Cultch
Saturday was a day full of theatre for me. Not theatre in the sense of drama at home, but actual real drama in real theatres, seeing as I actually attended two different performances, one in the theatre at the Evergreen Cultural Centre and the other in Vancouver’s Cultch. The first performance we (my kids and…
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The House of Knives; the ICE Double Edge Safety Razor
Here is the video of me putting the ICE double edge safety razor to work. The razor was provided to me by the folks at The House of Knives. Watch to see me lather up my pretty face and get a lovely shave. https://youtu.be/ubZQym68H0Q The ICE double edge safety razor (available exclusively at The House…
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Lights at Lafarge Winter Lights Display
Even though I thought the much-anticipated Lights at Lafarge Winter Lights Display was set to return to Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park today, it is in fact scheduled for Saturday, November 25th. And it is going to be bigger and brighter than ever before. It will be VERY much more impressive than what they have set…
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The House of Knives; the Double Edge Safety Razor
I reached out to the folks at The House of Knives because I wanted to see how a brand new double edge safety razor would feel compared to the vintage ones that I typically use. I have to admit, the shiny new travel kit double edge safety razor they sent me is a beautifully crafted, precision…
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The Leaf Experiences Part 2
As I write this blog post I am sitting in the parking lot of the Burnaby Central Secondary school in the borrowed Nissan Leaf while it is charging. I have to admit, I’ve been a little negligent and perhaps a more than a little impatient with charging the car. For example, early yesterday morning I…
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An Extended Nissan Leaf Test Drive
My bestie who happens to own a Nissan Leaf has gone to New York City for a few days. Unfortunately for him and his lovely wife, they had to be at the Vancouver airport at the ungodly hour of 0600. It is difficult at the best of times to get a ride to YVR but…