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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.

Yumm

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.

It's my Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM. It's my longest lens and the most money that I have ever spent on a lens.

My best lens is still my EF 70-200 f4, and I probably could have added an RF 2x teleconverter and had a sharper lens kit at …

But VS Code is practical.

I am running Debian on my Framework laptop for 6 months, it's a trip. So many "normal" things are just a haul. Maybe if I went with Ubuntu I would have a "better" time, I already tried Linux Mint. As it is, I would like …

I will be closing the curtains and pretending that it hasn't snowed yet. So I did a Quordle, and I think I figured out the formatting, so I will post some more.

BTW, I still share my wordles on twitter too, but hey, why not. I actualy like that it …

I know it snowed a couple days ago, and PEI got 20cm last night, but the flowers are popping out, so that means to me that Spring is here and you can't tell me different.

Yesterday I was on site all morning and mentally burnt when I got home. I was able to get a couple things done and we were having burgers. I wanted to have them on the kamado, but didn't want to wait too long to get it to temperature, and I …

I bought these pegboard magnets from Lee Valley and I love them, but unfortunately they are now on backorder till Aug '22.

Maybe I can find a solution that I can DIY before then.

So around this time last year, I went for a short adventure around Long Lake

The photo at the top was one of my first attempts at using the Canon R6 to create HDR photos. I have taken a few since, but I find that Lightroom does a better job …