Gardening

Contest time!

It's time to get your drinking face on, and tie your bibs!     Fall is most definitely in the air, as our chilly weather and rain outside can attest, and one of the great things about fall is the return of the Rocky Mountain Food and Wine Festival!  I've...

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School sucks

    So it's been a while since I've had anything to share with y'all, and the main reason is that I've been swamped up to my eyeballs in schoolwork. Why schoolwork? Because I decided that now is a good time to put a few courses in towards finally finishing...

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Chicks with tools

  I've always had a healthy interest in using my hands - in MAKING stuff - be it cooking, fixing a fence, growing a garden and other such pursuits. I took shop in high school and occasionally help James in his work as a hardwood installer.   But while I have...

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Holy Smoke!

    As I type this, it's 12 C outside.   Yep, 12 in July.   While Toronto, Montreal and many other tracts of the country are literally cooking, we in our marvelous Calgary are enjoying a fall weather revival.   My friend just emailed me to say...

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Mission and Desserts

  I've quite a bit of stuff to blog about, but I could not find my camera to PC cord for a few weeks, and so had zero photos to show for the last while of activity. Just as I was about to order a new cord online, James found it somewhere in the basement where it...

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Born to Run

I picked up this book on the recommendation of my friend and massage therapist who is an avid runner. I am as far removed from an avid runner as Starbucks is from good coffee, yet I love a good book on any subject and this one hit all the best seller lists.  And it's...

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WTF, Australia?

      I came across this story that made me blink and want to stab myself in the eye with a fork.   If it came out of the Onion or something, I'd understand, but it appears to be serious. ??   A company in Australia wants to reduce carbon emissions by KILLING CAMELS. ...

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Vero Bistro is Very Good

  Thanks to Groupon and similar discount sites, I've been to more restaurants faster, than I normally would, which has been wonderful, since going out to eat is one of life's greatest pleasures. Since the number of restaurants in Calgary vastly exceeds my budget, it's...

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