Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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The Reality of Parenting Conversations
Before I became a father I had many delusional dreams of having intellectual conversations with my children. I thought about the conversations we would have about local and global issues. I also thought about wandering along the shoreline with my children and watching the microcosm of life in tide pools. Or going for drives through…
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The Least Favourite Holiday Treats
I posted this picture on my A Dad in the Burbs Facebook Page with the question, “what holiday treat do you detest?” I was quite surprised at the response! People don’t like so many of the traditional Christmas treats! As you can probably tell from my picture, I can’t stand Turtles. I just don’t like…
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No Knead Bread – Super Simple Recipe
I have been making bread at home every other day and I am really quite enjoying the experience – as well as eating the bread! I make a super simple bread that requires VERY little effort. All I do is scoop 3 cups of flour, a half cup of rolled oats, 1 1/2 teaspoons of…
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“MINE” at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
How cool is this show scheduled to be at the Shadbolt Centre November 14th to 17th? A Theatre Replacement show called MINE – a digital exploration of mothers and sons through the lens of Minecraft*. *MINE is not an official Minecraft product, nor is it affiliated with Mojang. Using the computer construction game Minecraft as…
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Woodworking Project Part 2
My woodworking project continues. My latest step was to take my block of wood and find a way to get it “stable on the table” so that I could run it through the bandsaw. Once I had a flat enough surface (I trimmed it with an axe to flatten out the one side) I began…
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Traveling the Fraser Canyon
This past weekend we traveled up – and back down – the Fraser Canyon and it was such an extraordinarily beautiful fall day that we chose to photograph as many of the moments as we could. When we got home we turned the photos into this video. We hope you enjoy our little video –…
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Another Woodworking Project Begins
The beginnings of another woodworking project.
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Stuffed Peppers with Campbell’s Soup
Yesterday after school the kids and I saw a video of “how to make stuffed peppers” on the Facebook and we decided to try making them in our test kitchen. They turned out pretty good – but not perfect. But…we’ll get to that. .We started out by prepping the peppers – we cut the tops off…
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Let’s Break Bread
What a couple of weeks of chaos! I’ve had no time to write a single thing. Ugh. So here’s a random pic of a loaf of French bread I baked while I was away at the cabin. It was a good loaf of bread.
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Butter Chicken with House of Knives
Last weekend I had a few quiet moments at home so I took the opportunity to test out the chef’s knife and vegetable peeler that the folks from House of Knives gave me – yes, this is a sponsored post because the knives were given to me by HOK. I decided to try making Butter…
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