Weekend Progress @ the Pallet Factory?

“Wicked Early?” Monday Morning, August 17th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F Mostly Cloudy & still dark @ 5:30 am here in Atlantic Canada )- I recently retweeted / reported that France has passed a law making planned premature obsolescence a crime. The less than two year old batteries to my…

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This Week At The Pallet Factory

Thursday, August 13th, 2015 -(  24˚C / 75˚F — Cloudy and a bit muggy @ 2:57 pm in Atlantic Canada )- Um… Cathi was on ‘Holiday’/Vacation all last week, She got more done at the ‘Pallet Factory’ than I did, pretty much completed the basic design of her bed frame…

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Cathi Delivered Her Painting to the New Community Centre

Wednesday, August 5th, 2015. The new Community Center, which began its life as something like the Alex Gibson School in Marysville, New Brunswick, which has been incorporated into Fredericton – will open tomorrow, Thursday. Today Cathi delivered a painting of hers to the new Community Centre, in time for Tommorow’s…

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Sudden Rain Halts Work Outside, So Cathi Painted A Painting.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F Overcast & Dark @ 11:59 pm here in Atlantic Canada )- — Cathi, who has been planning to get creative with pallet wood after seeing what several people have posted lately about what they’ve been doing with wood rescued from shipping pallets,…

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New Look- & Thank You Jassper!

Okay- We’ve been busy in a lot of areas lately and when we checked this page/ these pages for the first time in months, we found that:  1.) There were 1,942 spam comments waiting to be deleted. & 2.) ‘upgrading’ to a much hyped newer theme can be a pain…

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Saturday Evening

Saturday, March 22, 2014. We might have gotten 5 new centimeters ( 2 inches? ) of snow- This was probably the height of the snow storm. Later, it turned to misty rain, then back to light snow. We had a graduation, a registered nurse exam passing, an engagement and an…

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Deer Photos with “Sports” setting

Tuesday, March 18, 2014. -15˚C / +5˚F // -25˚C Wind Chill at 7:00 am. While I was in New Hampshire, zooming around the state with one of my best all time friends, I actually learned something. First, when photos in a semi dark restaurant came out blurry, my cousin wondered…

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Cat Help

Monday, March 17, 2014. Bitterly Cold most of the day. Wicked Wind… On my recent whirlwind trip to New Hampshire to see my 90 year old Mother while she was visiting for a couple days from Alaska. I bought a nice homemade cutting board from an old (and close) friend….

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March is here, and the snow is pretty darn high.

Sunday, March 2, 2014. (Sally Spencer’s Birthday) -12˚C / +10˚F @ 11:11 pm. For those of you who miss the snow- I won’t be the kind of jerk who leers and says, “hell, you can come shovel me out any time you want.” There’s already more than enough of that…

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Night Photos at the River

Sunday, February 2nd, 2014.  (( Happy Birthday Lisa and Ricky )). +1˚C / +34˚F @ 7:35 am. Wind Chill is at 24˚F / -3˚C.  Snowing, Possibility it might mix with rain or “Frozen Mix” later. On Friday, we ran around like crazy and got quite a bit done, even managed…

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Blackout- With Woodstove, Dog & Guitar… & Rivers of Flowing Orbs.

Sunday, January 26th, 2014. We lost power at something like 7:05 pm and got it back at about 9:24 pm Atlantic Time. Cathi tossed a couple more logs in the woodstove and we were toasty warm. She grabbed her guitar and played and sang and had a very attentive Jassper, …

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Rain Rain Rain…

Sunday, January 12th, 2014. +7˚C / +45˚F @ 8:15 am. Very Wet outside. I’m confused about when exactly I shot these photos. We pretty much conked out and slept most of Saturday. In the evening we had a nice visit with Alex. He is very happy with his new apartment…

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Freezing Rain On Emily’s Birthday

Saturday, January 11th, 2014. -4˚C / +25˚F @ 1:00 pm with rain freezing and people having a heckuva time getting up the little hill on the corner of our Street and Canada Street. We had planned to go check out an all day breakfast place that one of our local…

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Fun With Security Cams

= January 8th, 2014. Natsha F.’s Birthday. = For Christmas this year, Santa Claus got us a security camera system (partially to see if we can capture anything spiritual with the 100 foot night vision capability). Instructions say “set up the cameras close to the recorder before installing them wherever…

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Happy Russian Christmas?

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014. I think today is Eastern Orthodox Christmas Day. -8˚C / +17˚F @ 10:00 am. There was a stiff northerly wind blowing at about 7:30 am. We had all kinds  of warnings that a Polar Vortex was coming to freeze our behinds off. There were some school…

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