Category: Getting Outside
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Robinsmith Family Vacation Kauai; Day One
We left home this morning at about 10am. Although the sign on the highway before the 176th Street exit said that entry to the USA would take an hour, within thirty minutes we were south of the border. First stop was Bellis Fair Mall where we found that kid shoes are approximately the same price…
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Travel with toddlers; Kauai bound
It is difficult to get my head around the idea as I am getting my coat and hat on to go outside, but in just over ten days I will be blogging with my Sweetheart and little angels from a beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauaui. Traveling with toddlers is not the simplest thing…
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Hallelujah Chorus – Quinhagak, Alaska; NaBloPoMo 26
Your feel good video post of the week… Simply beautiful.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse take me back to my Country Home
Every now and then I get the urge to walk away from the city life and go back to my adopted hometown. Frozen water pipes, icy roads, slow internet connections and the best people in the world … Neil Young & Crazy Horse … Country Home … Enjoy it. http://youtu.be/tMxtOdf41dA
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Cirque de Soleil Michael Jackson; Day 5 NaBloPoMo
I was never really a Michael Jackson fan. At the same time I was never a Michael Jackson “hater.” Sure when Thriller came out I was impressed but overall I was just indifferent to him and his music. This evening though, I gained a whole new respect for Michael Jackson after attending Cirque de Soleil,…
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Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel; Day 4.1 NaBloPoMo
The cell phone providers, cable and internet providers could learn a lesson or two from the Delta Hotel organization; in contrast to the telecoms, Delta Hotels work very diligently at keeping customers rather than just trying to attract new customers. And I like that. Although when I travel it is typically for work and thus…
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Neighbour Gets a New Fence and a Visit from Fortis Gas and…
See this pretty new fence? How much do you think it would cost to have a fence like this built? There was probably not a whole lot of profit for the contractor in this lawn and fence install job. And why is that you ask? Because he forgot to do that “Call Before You Dig” thing.…
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Front Porch; the Final Steps
I am pretty well exhausted after finishing off the front steps to the house so this will be an abbreviated post. Here are the stairs, in place. If you look carefully at them you will see that there is a third stringer in the middle of the stairs. This was a little improvement…
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Front Porch Step Four
Today was a very productive day on the front porch steps replacement project. And even though the scope of the project has expanded we are still (almost) on budget and on schedule. Once the existing steps were removed it was obvious that the opportunity had presented itself to clean-up and clear-out the area under the stairs. I…
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Front Porch Step Three
Today was my favourite kind of construction day; a day to wildly swing a sledge hammer and wield a mean pry-bar. Today was the de-construction day of the construction project. However, let me step back a bit to the time before the de-construction began. When I originally went to Sunbury Cedar I bought two 7′…