Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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McRae’s Bistro in Victoria BC
As I posted the other day, I visited Victoria, our province’s capital city on the weekend and I managed to find a foodie’s gem – McRae’s Bistro. I am experimenting with some more YouTube stuff (now that they have unceremoniously taken away my partnership agreement) and here are the results of my first experiment –…
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Weekend Trip to Vancouver Island
If you follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you may already know that I spent this weekend in Victoria on Vancouver Island with my school’s basketball team. The highlight of the trip for me and our team was the behind the scenes tour of the BC Legislature that Keith Baldrey of Global TV graciously…
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A Walk at Rocky Point and a Tortured Wedding Boat
The kids and I went for a walk at Rocky Point in Port Moody last weekend and they decided to play detective to solve the mystery of “the tortured wedding boat” – the old rotting corpse of a boat located washed up on the mudflats. They began by surveying the shoreline for clues. They then…
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Instant Pot Beef Stew
I went ahead and tried another Instant Pot meal. I figured I can make a pretty amazing mac and cheese, so why not try beef stew? So I did. What’s it take to make a beef stew? Some stewing beef, a couple potatoes, a sweet potato, a jumbo carrot, a cookie stalks of celery and…
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What the Numbers of Vehicles Sold in Canada Tell Us
I was looking over the data for vehicle sales in Canada and the most interesting part of the data is that trucks seem to be the biggest sellers in Canada. In 2016 the top three vehicles sold in Canada were the Ford F-150, the Dodge Ram pick up truck, and the Honda Civic. The data…
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Instant Pot Mac and Cheese
We got home from a soggy morning skiing on Grouse Mtn and needed some quick, warm-up the innards, comfort food. Daughter and I agreed to try making mac and cheese in our relatively new Instant Pot. Although you can sauté inside the Instant Pot, I’ve been told that if you have a good quality skillet,…
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New Year’s Celebrations and Resolutions
I’m not one for making resolutions on New Year’s Eve but I do try to make small adjustments to how I live my life. Last year, or the year before, or maybe even the year before that, I decided to “choose green more often”. What I meant was I would choose the salad over the…
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Making a Farmhouse Kitchen Table
I decided to make myself a new “farmhouse style” kitchen table for my cabin from a couple of bug-killed trees I cut down around my cabin years ago. After cutting the trees down, my friend and I used an Alaskan-Sawmill and milled the trees into dimensional lumber. That was 10 or 15 years ago and…
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Merry Christmas!
A day late but, Merry Christmas everybody!!
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Cabin Cooking; Brussel Sprouts
We took a trip to the cabin and we cooked the kids favourite vegetable – Brussel sprouts. Yep, my kids love Brussel sprouts. Perhaps that is because of the way we cook them. Have a look and see what you think –
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