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Ready For Winter

Like this squirrel, we are just about finished our autumn chores and hunkered down for winter. Typically we will be ready much sooner in the season, but this year the weather really stayed warm until last week.

Of course there are a couple of things that need to be finished …

Above The Clouds

This time in in 2014 I was way up in the Rockies in Cripple Creek, CO working on site. No one was ready for us, so we played cards in the control room most days. It is a pretty part of the world.

Today I spent a lot of time …

A big boat in the harbour

Yeah, I know, its not a boat, its a ship. But when you say "big ship" it sometimes sounds like something else.

Lots of pretty flowers

I took this only a week ago, and there are still fresh flowers on the dining room table.

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More Pretty Autumn Colours

It is way too warm out there for the end of October. It was 19C at 1pm today and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Something that I typically put away for the year during the first weekend of October. I really want to start wearing flannel, but then …

Pretty Autumn Colours

I was swamped early in October so I didn't get out at the height of the colourful leaves. This is my favourite time of the year and I plan to spend a lot more time on the trails in November and December.

Royal Bank Doesn't Respect You

I had to get on the phone today with RBC support to dispute a charge on my card. The vendor decided to not cancel my account like I asked in the winter, they then switched platforms, locked me out of my account, and then told me that its been more …

Strange Looking Birds

I still haven't figured out how to add the image in the meta field to the post "nicely" so I have moved it to the bottom of the theme and will manually put them in the microblog. It may make some of the featured images look funny being at the …

I'm getting old, and now I know it

I think that I have experienced the obvious sign that I'm getting old. My favourite shoes for the last 5yrs are worn through and I can't find them on the companies Canadian page. This is a sign because I EXPECTED TO FIND IT.

In the age of new iphones every …