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Walk Flowers

There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.

Flowers and Butterflies

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard.

There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.

Monarchs are here

This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.

Creating vim templates

I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do.

  1. Create a folder for the templates. I put …

I need to do more wandering

This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but with all the stops …

Wasps are the worst

When I saw this, I knew that I had to re-fresh the wasp trap with some fresh mix.

That time we went on boat

We went out in a friends boat this past weekend with no real goal. He wanted to go for a ride, and so did my big guy. So we made a plan that morning.

The water seemed relatively calm and I wanted to see puffins. I have never seen one …

This site needs a change

I think its time to make a change to this site. I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the big front page, with all the pictures, as I was when I built it. So I think I will be making some changes to it to make it "better …

Free, Free, over the lea



A Swing Song

Swing, swing,
Sing, sing,
Here! my throne and I am a king!
Swing, sing,
Swing, sing,
Farewell, earth, for I'm on the wing!


Low, high,
Here I fly,
Like a bird through sunny sky;
Free, free,
Over the lea,
Over the mountain, over the …