Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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My Farmhouse Kitchen Table Continues
I’ve made some progress on my farmhouse kitchen table. Perhaps most importantly, I’ve got the table and parts at home in my garage! As you can see, all the pieces are now glued together, cut to length, cut to width, and planed and sanded to the desired thickness. Did I show you how I took…
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A Dad in the Burbs Has Started A Podcast!
Just because I didn’t have enough places where my “voice” is able to be heard – other than here on my blog, on my Instagram, my Facebook, and my YouTube channel, I decided to start a podcast! You can check out my podcast, Stacey Robinsmith is A Dad in the Burbs, on Anchor! https://anchor.fm/stacey-robinsmith Give…
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Thursday Thoughts
I love this quote from Miguel Guhlin, “No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two 10 foot jumps.” Brilliant. When you need to make a big change, you need to make big, bold moves.
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The Rad Power Bike Rad Rover
I’ve had my new Rad Rover – my electric assisted bicycle – for a couple of weeks now and I have to say “I’m loving it!” This video is from the first couple of days of me riding and getting familiar with my Rad Rover. I now know that the red button on the right…
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Taps and Tacos
One of my grandfather’s more “edgy” sayings was, “if that’s lunch, I’ve had it!” When I was a kid, I’d chuckle at his double entendre. Now I use it! Thanks to the great staff at Port Moody’s Taps and Tacos for a late lunch.
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A Dad in the Burbs Attempts to Find the Top Three Foodie Places
During spring break a buddy and I decided to head into Vancouver and try out a few foodie places; the places we visited are places we have heard about but rarely have time to try. Our stated goal was to determine our top three foodie places in Vancouver. We did stop at Dixie’s Barbecue on…
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Thursday Thoughts
The following quote is often incorrectly attributed to Albert Einstein, …not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. The truth is, William Bruce Cameron turned the clever phrase in his 1963 book, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking. Regardless of who first created this chiasmus, I…
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Cast Iron Cooking; Making Bread
Those who follow me on Instagram or my Facebook page know that I’ve been working on my baking skills. I’m still working on my biscuit making technique and I’ve returned to bread making. Typically I do my bread making while at the cabin. However, this spring break I decided to do some bread baking at…
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PlayDome at BC Place
Good, innocent fun! That’s the best way I can describe my family’s experience at the PlayDome event in BC Place. All of the people working at Playdome were friendly and helpful. Many times the guys working the games encouraged my kids to try the games they were working – they’d say, “go ahead, it isn’t…
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Traveling the Scenic 7
Typically, when we travel to the interior of BC we avoid the freeway (Hwy 1) and we choose to travel via the Lougheed Hwy – the Scenic 7. It really is a beautiful drive and as I’ve aged, my driving habits have become much more like my Dad’s. He always talked about how a car…
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