The hype for tomorrow’s storm is growing! Although it is sunny and beautiful today (although quite cold), by tomorrow we are supposed to be knee+ deep in snow with hurricane…
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Weekend photo dump
Dumping a few photos from my iPhone: Jeff getting a propane tank filled. Turns out that even though the tank is from one of those propane exchanges, the propane guy…
Read MoreDay in the city: Go for #4, you’ll be glad you did!
Yesterday I had a last minute choice to stay home and work, or drop Jeff off at his meeting in Truro and go to Halifax for the day and make…
Read MoreRandom updates: Great Gatsby, Zeus, Jeopardy, and the sunset
Were you watching Jeopardy tonight? Kinda cool seeing WordPress.com on Jeopardy! I just watched The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio. I had to study this book twice in high school and…
Read More2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
I am a HUGE winter Olympics fan. I don’t think of the Olympics much until they start, and I get sucked right in, glued to the events. CBC did such…
Read MoreWell that wasn’t fun
Jeff got sick on the weekend and I tried to ignore it and encouraged him to go to his work trip to Winnipeg this week. I even baked him a…
Read MoreCould be an interesting day
Hmmm a flash freeze warning, a wind warning, and a storm surge warning for today. Wind gusts of 110km/hr! Looks like the power was out already once this morning (clocks…
Read MoreToday started at 4:50am…
There I was, sitting in my massive travel trailer, getting ready for a nap, hoping my company would leave so I could see if the antennae on the TV got…
Read MoreServer Move
After a lot of research, debating, agony, I finally executed my server move. Now that I’m no longer in the web design, development, hosting business, it has taken months to…
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Ice fishing
Jeff and I went ice fishing this afternoon on Gillis Lake. Beautiful cold sunny day with a bit of wind. There were several groups out on the ice, even a…
Read MoreNew camera, burned some paper, and a word or two about the crows
First, an update: Burned so much history, receipts, tax statements, pay stubs, and invoices yesterday. About 15 years worth. Felt fantastic! Also newsworthy from the weekend. I spent my…
Read MorePurging time
While listening to Howard Stern’s birthday special this evening, I’m purging my office. So many years of emotional turmoil, debt, payments, credit, misery. I’m going through my file folder drawers…
Read MoreGood morning
Good morning from the outside of the shed. I’d love to be inside of the shed, getting some birdseed for the bird feeders, but the lock is frozen and I…
Read MoreTop 5 reasons we lose our internet service
Living in the country has a few drawbacks, but only a few. One is that no one will deliver pizza. The other is that our choices for internet are incredibly…
Read MoreSaturday morning at the gun range
Whaa? It isn’t really spring?
It’s been spring for awhile here! The snow is almost gone, the lake is mostly thawed again, the grass looks kinda green, and the driveway is passable. So what is…
Read MoreSpring thaw… in January!
I slept through a windy rain storm last night and woke up to find most of our snow is gone and our driveway is passable again! Jeff had a great…
Read MoreIce cleats – get ’em!
While the rest of the continent is experiencing the polar vortex, our temperature spiked to 7°C today with rain. That means our driveway is hard, wet, and incredibly icy. Like…
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Our Christmas of 2013
And finally, my Christmas 2013 wrap up! My Mom and my sister Julie flew out here to Nova Scotia to join us for the holidays again this year! They got…
Read MoreSnowstorm! Like a real awesome one!
Everything is closed today – the 104 highway, the grocery stores, the Red Cross, the University, the banks, even Jeff’s office. (Wait, except for my job because I work from…
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