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When did they change that?
So Hilary woke me up at 04:30 this morning. She had gone to sleep a lot earlier than she usually does and was wide awake this morning. I tried, without any success, to get her to go back to sleep and after awhile I gave up. When I turned on the TV I noticed the…
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part four.
Link to part one. One of the disadvantages of being a guy is that we have a couple of, er, rather exposed pain points. A blow to these points can be incapacitating, and another rather effective way of taking the fight out of someone. Usually in a struggle, you want to end the fight quickly,…
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Be Afraid.
While we were sitting down for supper this evening my (not quite fourteen month old) daughter grabbed a cushion from the couch and put it on the floor in front of the TV, grabbed Leah’s PSP, laid down on the cushion and with one eye on the TV made like she was playing the game. …
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Baking up a storm
I know. I know. Its been a long time between posts. I’ve been trying to get through the latest installment of "The Great Northland’s Fire Extinguisher Incident" and it’s been a struggle. The words just don’t seem to be flowing. I think partly because I think some people may misinterpret the violence on our part.…
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The Fort Hearne on YouTube
Larry, the previous owner of our boat, The M.V. Fort Hearne, has posted this video on YouTube of the Fort Hearne. Well, actually it is of his son catching a humongous Arctic Char, but the Fort Hearne plays a supporting role. Sigh.
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Wow.
I was kicking around the blogosphere just now, following some links that I don’t normally follow, and seeing where they lead. Back when I used to watch more than Treehouse, Poker and the History channel I used to love the Drew Carey Show. I found Craig Ferguson (Mr Wicks) to be a very funny man,…
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Another little bit on Vimy – the 16th’s jumping off point.
I’m continually amazed at the information that you can glean online, and also with that amazing tool/time waster, Google Earth. One of the things I’d really like to do at Vimy is stand where the 16th Battalion stood at 5:30 am, the time that they went over the top that Easter morning 90 years ago.…
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A little bit on the Battle of Vimy Ridge
The battle of Vimy Ridge is one of the significant events in Canada’s history. It is often acknowledged as the watershed when Canada changed from part of the British Empire into it’s own nation. Vimy Ridge is a low ridge north of Arras that was held by the German Army for much of the war,…
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Sun Dogs
Rurality has previously posted on Sun Dogs (and also on other sun effects) on her excellent blog. And once again proving that there isn’t an original thought in my head I thought I’d post this picture of the sun dogs here this morning, taken about a half hour ago. Growing up, we’d always thought of…
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I’m going.
Or at least I think I am. I’ve made up my mind that I’m going to Vimy for the 90th anniversary. The person I had found to do the cooking while I was away backed out, which is alright I suppose, we couldn’t come to an agreement about what would be fair compensation for the…
