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Oat Cakes from Whycocomagh Fire Hall

I love oatcakes. I ate them a lot growing up, they were always around and on the plate when it was time for tea.

For the last while this has been my go-to recipe, and like I mentioned a couple days ago, the recipes assume a lot. I have made …

Duck Army Building

There was a decent snow storm and as the temperature came up the snow went from amazing powder to perfect for making a duck army. Even @_jessryan_ thought so.

Trying to get some outside time

It has been extremely hard to get out in the woods this winter. Too much ice. This is a great example of that, everything was just 100% ice. We didn't stay out too long and just did some light exploring.

Something else is that it seems like its been a …

Horses with Blankets

I took the toddler for a stroller nap today and wandered by the Halifax Lancers paddock to see if there were any horses around.

Pan Pizza Night

This is the first pan pizza night in a while. I use a Kenji Lopez-Alt recipe from Serious Eats for the dough.

Using GIT for Deployment

At first I was developing this site, and all my python projects, using WSL2 but I was starting to find working between operating systems tedious. So I put everything on the base windows OS and kept going.