Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 -( +5˚C / +41˚F — Grey skies & damp in Atlantic Canada @ 8:00 am )- — Economic Warfare — — The oil and gas industries received $34 Billion dollars per year in taxpayer-funded subsidies? Mid-priced Electric cars cost about $31,000.00 Canadian Dollars. They figure there…
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 -( -13˚C / +9˚F With Wind Chill around -26˚C/ -16˚F — Greyish and cold in Atlantic Canada @ 7:16 am )- — There are weather warnings out there this morning. Wind Chills below -20˚C — which would translate to -4˚F — But – The latest possible…
Thursday, December 31st, 2015 -( +1˚C / +34˚F Grey, damp – and might even be misty/raining outside at 11:11 am in Atlantic Canada )- — A couple good things happened in 2015 – but overall, I will not miss this last year at all. On the positive side: Canadian humiliated…
Thursday, December 24th, 2015 -( +8˚C / +46˚F dark & damp with a full moon shining on Atlantic Canada @ 10:45 pm )- Cathi and I went to the cinema tonight and saw the new Star Wars Movie. I enjoyed it, even knowing it had been strained through a highly…
Monday. December 14, 2015 -( 0˚C / 32˚F — Grey and Damp and Threatening Rain, Snow, Ice Pellets and Freezing rain @ 9:00 am in Atlantic Canada )- We’ve been worried about the deer who have been making it through our last couple very tough winters by taking the chance…
Monday, December 07, 2015 -( +1˚C / + 34˚F & maybe a little too bright and shiny out there in Atlantic Canada @ 8:28 am )- — Ever since Barak Obama’s speech the other day – in which he decried that People on the ‘No-Fly list’ should not be able…
Saturday, October 10th, 2015 -( 9˚C / 48˚F — Clear, Bright, Sunny and Breezy — A bit nippy —@ 4:53 pm in this little corner of Atlantic Canada )- It’s my nephew, Westley’s Birthday, and his father, Mike’s Birthday today. — The News Media warned us yesterday, So many Canadians…
Friday, October 2nd, 2015. — My favourite step daughter and Cathi’s and my favourite nurse (the same person) flew out for much too short a visit on Friday, and I’ve been much too busy enjoying her company to take a lot of photos. I think Cathi got at least one…
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 -( 17˚C / 63˚F — Cloudy, damp & wet outside @11:11 am in Atlantic Canada )- It’s my cousin K.C.’s birthday – — I dreamed we were discovering shark fins sticking up through the ground. Some of them were still trying to move. I was walking…
“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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
= 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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