Creating the good old days, one day at a time.

  • Coming Home Cafe New Westminster

    Catching up on a couple blog posts that were left as drafts before I took off with my kids for an 8 day trip to the interior of BC. This one is really simple, great Eggs Benedict with good pan fried potatoes at the funny little restaurant called the Coming Home Cafe in uptown New…

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  • Our Failed Electric Vehicle Trip Up the Fraser Canyon

    A few weeks ago I posted about a plan to drive up the Fraser Canyon in my friend’s Nissan Leaf – an all electric vehicle. Well, as I said in my update right in that post, our EV trip up the Fraser Canyon did not happen. Not because of lack of interest or willingness, only…

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  • Those Big Questions

    Do you ever wonder about what you are doing “with your life”? Do you ever stop and think…what the fuck is it all about? Am I on “the right path”? Or even, is there a right path to be on? Or why are we not supposed to end a sentence or question with a preposition? …

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  • Boat and Tool Rentals 

    About a month ago, before my guts fell out and I had to be hospitalized for just over a week, I decided to trim the final holly hedge at my mother’s house in Burnaby. While a holly hedge is a thing of beauty to some, it can be a beast to trim. And if you…

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  • Cabin Cooking; Ribeye Steak and VEGGIES!!

    Cabin Cooking – pictures are worth a 1000 words right? Well here are a few thousand words!! Let me just say, thus steak from Meatcraft Urban Butchery was awesome. And the veggies from the Desert Hills Ranch in Ashcroft…wonderfully fresh and full of flavour. I started with a beauty of a ribeye steak from Meat…

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  • My Vlog About the World Not Being Fair

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  • Male Celebrities as Role Models

    Celebrities are often seen by ordinary folk as larger-than-life figures, almost as though they were a completely different life form. Nonetheless, they are human too, although some do stand out as role models for fathers across the world. This article takes a look at how some male celebrities have handled fatherhood and what lessons can…

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  • We Cook Scrambled Eggs Gordon Ramsay Style

    On my most recent trip to the family cabin my daughter and I tried cooking scrambled eggs Gordon Ramsay style – and I would say we had some success. Have a look.

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  • Ba Lé Sandwich Shop

    I went out searching for another beautiful Vietnamese sub sandwich. This time I followed up on Beyond the Rhetoric – my fellow foodie’s recommendation and stopped at Ba Lé on Main Street just south of Hastings Street. Ba Lé is a simple affair. Vietnamese sandwiches done quickly. You walk up to the counter, tell the…

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  • Beet Greens and Eggs for Breakfast

    Breakfast today was two eggs from the place we always stop in Agassiz fried sunny side up and perched atop a little nest of beet greens from my front yard garden. The eggs and beet greens were all sitting on a couple slices of toasted homemade wholewheat bread. The slices of tomato were store bought.…

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