Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
-
The #5DadsGoWild Ford Explorer Experience
I’m a guy who grew up with trucks. My dad had a truck, both my grandfathers had trucks, and the first vehicle I ever owned was a truck. I love trucks. However, now my lifestyle is not conducive to owning a truck. In fact, I currently drive one of the smallest and least technologically advanced…
-
5 Dads Go Wild; the Food We Ate
Disclosure – this blog post is about the 5DadsGoWild camping trip to Manning Park that I took with four other dad bloggers. Our trip was supported with products from a group of brands including House of Knives and Casus Grills Canada. As always, editorial control of everything I share on my blog remains with me…
-
5 Dads Go Wild and We All Survived!
Disclosure – this blog post is about the #5DadsGoWild camping trip to Manning Park that I took with four other dad bloggers. Our trip was supported with products from a group of brands including Filson, Ben Sherman, and Ford Canada. As always, editorial control of everything I share on my blog remains with me –…
-
The Choices of a Self-Driving Car
When we talk about self-driving cars (cars controlled by computers), people often go to the “what if situations”. The situation people often go they often go to is “what if the car has to choose between running over a pedestrian or an animal or swerving and hitting a wall and thereby killing or badly injuring…
-
The New Kitchen Floor; Plywood Plank Floor
Finally, the kitchen floor update! To cut right to the chase I will say that I put plywood plank floors in our kitchen. Yes, a plywood plank floor.And I have to say, they look and feel incredible. I started by stripping off all the existing flooring – the top layer of crappy looking laminate flooring and…
-
The New Flooring Renovation Project Part 2
I am up to my eyeballs involved in this ever-growing home renovation, home-improvement nightmare job that I’ve taken on and I have not taken the time to sit down at my desk to write anything about it. Yet. I have been taking many photos and once I get this job done, or even get to…
-
The New Flooring Renovation Project
Probably not the smartest thing I have ever done, but with basically two weeks left in my summer break, I decided to install in our living room and dining room the laminate flooring we purchased about two years ago (maybe three years ago). To start, I moved all of our living room and dining room…
-
My Thoughts on Christopher Robin the Movie
Earlier this week I went with my kids to see the movie Christopher Robin – or what my kids called “the Winnie the Pooh movie”. Of course no spoilers here, but I will say that while my kids enjoyed the movie as a piece of entertainment, the Christopher Robin movie was very meaningful to me…
-
Rad Power Bikes RadRover; Follow Up Video
Now that I have put more than 500 kilometres on my Rad Power Bikes RadRover, I decided to sit down and put together a sort of “top ten list” of my thoughts, observations, and impressions of the bike. Here they are: https://youtu.be/YZ3iR79DoDE
-
BBQ Pit Boys Inspired Bacon and Egg Pie
I was surfing around the YouTube the other day watching videos about grilling and smoking meat when I stumbled across the Barbecue Pit Boys making a Bacon and Egg Pie. What a riot. My favourite line from their video – after they have added 18 eggs to the two and a half pounds of bacon,…
Got any book recommendations?