Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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Marlondo Leather Traveler’s Briefcase
Some few weeks or maybe even a couple months ago I bought a Marlondo Leather Travelers Briefcase in their water buffalo leather line. They are discontinuing their water buffalo line so I bought the bag at a pretty deep discount. As I say in the video, I really like the feel of the water buffalo…
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The Rad Power Bike Radrover
I’m loving this Radrover bike. It is a beast of a machine! This morning I rode to school and it didn’t take me even five minutes longer than if I drive my car. It might have even been faster. In case you don’t know, the Radrover is an electric bike. It has two options –…
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The Hack Attack
Earlier this week my web hosting company alerted me to the fact that my blog (and many others) had come under attack and had been “hacked”. I really don’t know what that means or what hackers get out of hacking a blog. Whatever, they found a vulnerability in the “workings” and they exploited it. My…
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Dirty Apron Cooking Class
Last week I attended a cooking class at the Dirty Apron cooking school. The name of the class was Meat Eaters Unite. It was not vegetarian friendly. Above is a photo of the lamb chops I cooked. Start on the grill to get the grill tracks set and then into the pre-heated oven for SIX…
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Filming the Recording of a Podcast
As one or two of you know, I’ve started a podcast on which I discuss whatever random topic piques my curiosity. For giggles one night I filmed myself recording my podcast. That’s my recording studio – the back porch. That’s my recording equipment – an iPhone. Which I’ve now “upgraded” by using the earbuds to…
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Biscuits, Crisp, Croissants, and Lamb; A Weekend of Eating
I started my weekend of eating and foodie explorations with my usual Saturday morning attempt at baking biscuits. I have to say, I had a reasonably successfully experience. The biscuits were light enough but the texture still is not as soft inside as I remember the ones my mother used to make. Or were the…
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Burgers on the Grill
We did it again – we did burgers on the grill. I have to admit that once again, I made them too thick. You’d think I would’ve learned after doing this once already! Another thing I would probably do differently next time is get actual hamburger buns because the ciabatta buns I got were too…
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Victoria Day Long Weekend
I spent most of the Victoria Day long weekend in and around the Fraser Canyon with my kids. We came home late Sunday because traffic on the Monday of the long weekend is a nightmare I can seriously do without. We started out Friday afternoon of the Victoria Day weekend with a drive up the…
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My Favourite Happy Hour
For many people, happy hour means cheap booze. For me, my happiest happy hours are all about tacos. Cheap tacos. Well, not cheap tacos, but inexpensive tacos. Yesterday we needed an after school snack so we hit up Port Moody’s Taps and Tacos where they have “street tacos” for $2.50. Street tacos – their 4″…
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Burgers on the Grill
As you hopefully remember, it was Mother’s Day on the weekend just gone. To be precise, it was on Sunday. I had made reservations at one of our favourite local eateries (not A&W this time!) but, seeing as the weather was hot and sunny and we had just got our backyard pool set up, we…
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