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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 …

365Project - Day 53

I had to agree to a new terms and conditions to access my Lightroom library today and that means that this is the first time that I have used darktable to process an image for this site.

Eariler this year I gave darktable a try and decided to continue with …

365Project - Day 51

I did a bit of continued cleanup on the theme for the site, it is starting to get to be something that I like better. I also re-arranged it some so that the header image is in the RSS feed. Pelican doesn't allow for you to create your own RSS …

365Project - Day 48

And good news, comments are back. I took them off to give commento another try, but their docs are offline and I would like to understand PHP a bit better. It has evolved a lot as a programming language since I worked with it.

So I'm using Hashover 2.0 …

Autumn Backyard Birdfeeders

We didn't have a birdfeeder this year, there was just too many warnings from provincial natural resources about the amount of bird flu in the wild population, so instead we grew flowers.

During the summer there were a few birds, but mostly pollenators, now that autumn is in full swing …

We made it through Hurricane Fiona

We made it through Hurricane Fiona, the largest storm ever in Canada, with minimal damage and the power was only out for ~40h. I have a lot of thoughts, but no time to put them down, so that will have to wait for a bit.

In the meantime, this little …