get ready to rumble!
Yes! The 2013 CFL season is about to start! The 2013 Grey Cup Winners, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, will be playing their first game of the season Saturday June 29th, 2013…
Welcome to summer 2013
Summer is finally here… arriving at 00:04 EST or 01:04 EDT. I recently came across a folder of scanned slide images from the past, so I thought it might be…
newer smaller cheaper computers needed
We have more than a few computers spread around. And seeing that they run at the very least $200-300 for the smallest netbooks, it soon gets very expensive to dedicate…
Notes from Monday June 17th 2013
It’s been busy again.. and promises to continue to be busy for another week or two. Note: rain. lots and lots of rain. We were camping in Bon Echo Provincial…
why are the bird feeders on the ground in the morning?
Mr. Raccoon is the answer to the question. There were actually two feeders up, one on either side. It looks like he has gotten so good/fast the first one gets…
Instabench
Instabench.. kind of implies it was a quick build, no? What was supposed to take only an hour took a couple of weeks, most of it with the wood, drawings,…
Is the Canadian Federal Government Incompetent or Criminal?
You’ve read about the Canadian Forces F35 fighter jet fiasco over the last two years. You’ve read about the Victoria-class_submarine fiasco. — Although the Canadian government touted the $750 million…
Winter is coming!
a line from the Game of Thrones… quite frightening! But in reality it is “Spring is coming!” See the Youtube Game of Thrones theme Two days of springlike weather with…
Great.. Big… Sea!
Great Big Sea.. Newfoundland’s premier band.. Eastern Canada’s premiere band… Canada’s premier band? Could be. We certainly think so. (Well at least in the top three or four 🙂 They…
amazon
Yay! Amazon has shipped another book on…. potatos? hmm. not exactly what we were expecting but we will take it.. waitaminute… here’s another email… Another book has shipped! Now this…
Earth Hour 2013
Last night, Saturday March 23rd, 2013 was Earth Hour, from 20:30-21:30 EDT. Starting about 10 minutes earlier, we went around shutting off non-essential power, including all lights inside. We headed…
Bond… James Bond
We’ve started rewatching the entire James Bond Movie series in the last few weeks. So far we’ve done Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and most recently Goldfinger…
Upcoming events next week
Monday March 18, 2013 The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre regular meeting, 7pm, Ellis Hall Room 324, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”…
Tree Care Workshop
March 20 Join certified arborist Eric Weese for a Tree Care Workshop on Wednesday, March 20 2013 from 2 to 4 pm at St. Albans Hall in Odessa, Ontario. Eric…
Long Winter?
It seems to have been a long winter. Do the winters get longer every year strictly because of psychology? Last year this time we were just about out of firewood.…