Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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Lytton; the Confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers
Two of Canada’s most beautiful rivers merge and become one incredible river near the village of Lytton BC. In the photo below, the Thompson River comes in from the left hand side and merges into the mighty-muddy Fraser River on the right. Beautiful.
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The Dead Raccoon; the Final Chapter
The final chapter in the dead raccoon saga. The raccoon moves on. On the dead raccoon; after coming home and finding there was still a large dead raccoon in my driveway I realized that it was time for action. In the morning at 0630hr I called the 24 hour Emergency Services for Water, Sewer and…
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Dead Raccoon Part II
Part II of the dead raccoon story is still to come; for now, let’s just say that the raccoon is gone from our driveway. Sometimes when you fight City Hall, you do win.
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The Dead Raccoon
This is one of the most popular blog posts I have ever written. It is actually a three part series, so here is the first part of the dead raccoon saga. So I have very large and very dead raccoon laying in my driveway and I have no idea what to do about it. Just…
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The Starbucks Mobile Order App and Vlog #2
I recorded another vlog … this one was recorded on February 22nd – Pink Shirt Day. And just for the record, I was not sponsored by Starbucks for doing this vlog.
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Gaining Pinterest Followers
Against my better judgement I have entered a friendly competition with another blogger to see who can gain the most Pinterest followers. At the start of the competition we both had about 50 Pinterest followers. She-who-I will-not-name now has 70 followers and I have 66 Pinterest followers. Clearly, she has taken an early lead. My…
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My First Vlog Entry on Word Choice
I did it. I have a vlog entry. And for those who do not know, a vlog is a blog where the content (blog post) is done by video. So instead of me trying to type up all the words about word choice and using italics and bold font and all that stuff to add…
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French Fries Without the Fryer
My kids love French fries. But I don’t want to give them deep fried food, plus I don’t like using a deep fryer at home! So rather than deep frying potatoes, I have been experimenting with oven baking potatoes. Today I decided to go for a Jenga-inspired oven baked French fries. And it worked really…
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Cabin-Cooking; Bone-in Prime Rib Steak
On the long weekend just passed, I decided to head out of town to the cabin. As well as making bread at the cabin, I also needed something substantial for my dinner so of course I visited Meat Craft, my local butcher in Port Moody. Greg the Butcher set me up with a beauty of…
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Cabin Cooking; the Bread Making Edition
Family Day is the newest stat holiday in BC so I did my usual routine and got out of the city. I headed up the Fraser Canyon to the cabin. And as I usually do at the cabin, I got into experimenting in the kitchen. Seeing as I had one of my daughters with me…
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