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A Visit to Hope for Wildlife

Hope for Wildlife is a wildlife rehabilitation and education organization located in Seaforth, Nova Scotia. They have a few pens and trails so we met up with some cousins to wander around this afternoon.

Weekend Baking

We are into baking season, and this weekend I tried a couple new recipes and a couple of old favourites.

Notes on configuring VM

I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection.

This is the way that I have finally gotten it working.

What I need

I need to install windows 11 on my …

Weekend Bread

Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.

Blue Jays October

The blue jays are playing amazing, 2 home runs to start and a triple to add on in the 4th.

I don't know what the Dogers mascot is, or if it is something that a blue jay will eat, but from what I can tell, blue jays will eat pretty …

Crazy October Clouds

We took the kids to an annual halloween party at Needham park this weekend. It was cut short because those dark scary cloulds brought with them great big rain drops and some hail.

They looked really cool from the hill.

When the little drop started we corraled the kids to …

Nocturne Weekend

It is Nocturne weekend here in Halifax. We went out for our annual stroll to see the installations. Something that I found this year was that the density seems down. There are still lots of things to see, but the walking seemed more than other years.

I haven't been out …

WSL and Google G Drive

I have a job with a company laptop. They use Google Drive for their project folders, and this is not something that I will ever change with them. The also use Salesforce for almost all the things, and that is worse than any business "solution" that I have every tried …