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Taylor Head Provincial Park

For Canada Day we went on an adventure to Taylor Head Provincial Park. I had a plan to do the full loop, but when we go there moderate from AllTrails was a bit harder/muddier than I expected. And for 4km for my hiking partner, through a lot of muddy …

This Weekend's Baking

I haven't done any weekend batch cooking/baking in about a month. There were a couple of weekends I planned to do batch cooking based on the weather being crap, and then it wasn't crap.

Does anyone else notice that nearterm weather forecasts are getting tres-mal?

Anyway, what did I …

Beach Finds around Deadmans Island

We went to Deadman's island for snack yesterday, and when I was walking back I noticed this sitting on the beach. If you knwow what it is, let me know.

A Quick Adventure to Chebucto Head

First a short rant.

I think we need to talk about AllTrails. It sucks.

AllTrails Suck!

The last few times that I have set out with a 5yo for an adventure we had to change our plans, on the fly, because the place that the app was sending us had …

Cloudy Day Lighthouse

We took a drive to Chebucto Head for something to do before the rain, that never came.

Baby Ducks at the Frog Pond

This is the first day of summer, so I'm posting a picture that I took in the middle of Spring. Yes, I'm that far behind editing most of the pictures I've taken.

Batch Files are your friend

Something that my pelican experience was missing was a little automation that my Unix friends enjoy with makerfiles. I'm sure that there is a windows workaround, or I could just continue to work in WSL for my pelican life.

I do enjoy working in WSL and all the Linux life …