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Commenting with Mastodon

I missed having the potential of discussions around things that I post here, but at the same time I didn't want to add load to the site to manage comments or complexity of databases, etc.

I remember seeing somewhere that people used to use Facebook for comments on their site …

Bees are getting active

Spring is here. Warning now, there will be a lot of bee and flower pictures for the next couple of months.

Marconi History in Cape Breton

So many years ago (January 2005), I was approached to put together a website about the Marconi Towers. This was after a presentation I attended titled - Nova Scotia's Wireless Communications Heritage: Is it worth saving?.

The website I created was online for a very short period of time, and then …

Finally a new fence

This weekend we built a new fence. We have been talking about doing it with our neighbours for a couple years now, but between COVID, the spike in lumber prices last year and life in general, we finally picked a date, it was the last weekend in April, but then …

Cool Trucks

It was a good weekend and I took this cool picture of a tonka grader that Eric gave to our oldest from his personal collection.

A Nighttime Visitor

We had a visitor last night. The chunky boy was in there for over 10min, I sped that part up because it makes a boring video.

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