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More Flowers Popping

It has been a crazy 10 days or so. First my main storage server started to have pains of oldage and I had to spend too much time babying it to a point that I made sure all the data was safe, just for the RAID card to have overheating …

Ants and aphids

I've heard of farmer ants before, but this year has been a special one. Typically I put out ant traps in early spring, but this year I forgot, and it has likely contributed to the bumper crop of aphids.

Blueberries Coming

Blueberries are coming, but at the same time they keep disappearing. I blame birds.

Taylor Head Provincial Park

For Canada Day we went on an adventure to Taylor Head Provincial Park. I had a plan to do the full loop, but when we go there moderate from AllTrails was a bit harder/muddier than I expected. And for 4km for my hiking partner, through a lot of muddy …

This Weekend's Baking

I haven't done any weekend batch cooking/baking in about a month. There were a couple of weekends I planned to do batch cooking based on the weather being crap, and then it wasn't crap.

Does anyone else notice that nearterm weather forecasts are getting tres-mal?

Anyway, what did I …

Beach Finds around Deadmans Island

We went to Deadman's island for snack yesterday, and when I was walking back I noticed this sitting on the beach. If you knwow what it is, let me know.