Death wish
This little creature of the red squirrel variety must live with a death wish. On a daily basis he/she/it comes down out of the tree or up from the ground…
Newburgh – art among the ruins
It was the 10th anniversary of this great local artist event in Newburgh. It seemed there were more artisans than ever and the weather was nice and so were the…
Colebrook Dam Repair
We went to a town hall meeting event hosted by the Quinte Conservation area, regarding the repair of the Colebrook Dam. Since the last major repairs in the early 1980’s,…
Ganonoque Ribfest
This was our 3rd ribfest in two years and this one was one of the top two! A nice open space, uncrowded (EXCEPT for one thing), not a lot of…
The things nightmares are made of
When we left work early Friday morning (2015 June 26), we had no idea what would be awaiting us upon our return. We spotted it some kms away.. wondering what…
bye bye starchoice
When we moved into the country, there was no cable television. We decided on Starchoice satellite TV at that time and generally things went well. There were weather? related outages…
Spring? Not yet
This is as close as we have gotten to Spring so far this last few weeks… This was March 11th, one of the first warm sunny days in ages. We…
stove accessories
This is our first winter with a wood pellet stove. It has not been doing too badly at all: a lot less heavy wood carrying frequency; most of it water…
The Walking Dead
The much anticipated Season 5, second half of The Walking Dead, our favourite zombie show, is coming up this Sunday evening. In preparation, that day we will sit down and…
Infrastructure outages
Amazing… a cable internet failure and a power failure all in one day. The cable internet (Eastlink) went out on Tuesday 2015 Jan 13th around 18:30 EST. The power (HydroOne)…
Elementary
There is a lot more television out there than there used to be. And sometimes it is actually getting better than it used to be. Elementary is an example of…
gas gas gas
Some interesting numbers from the past 4 years. We record information at every gas fillup with our vehicle and we do try to manage the balance between dollar averaging purchases…
A Light at Night
Upper Canada Village is a heritage park in the village of Riverside near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. We first visited it earlier in the…
The Hobbit has arrived… or will soon!
The last of three parts to the Tolkien work “The Hobbit” will be arriving in theatres this week. We have prepared by rewatching parts 1 and 2, namely An Unexpected…
finished scanning 3500+ 35mm slides
After a few weeks I think we have completed the digitization of over 3500 35mm slides. It was a gas, seeing as how they have been stuck in boxes in…