tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63853219200261586332012-01-20T13:08:15.621-06:00The ramblings of a widely distracted man. It's not all bad.Ian Timshelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16744712983290575017noreply@blogger.comBlogger7951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385321920026158633.post-44107907662869055392012-01-12T10:04:00.002-06:002012-01-12T10:10:23.881-06:00

I've been withdrawing. That's never a good sign. Here's to the increasing light on the other side of the winter solstice.Here's to more writing, more social time, more life.

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The repairs were just about as structurally sound as they could have been. Clean, clear wood to bond to on all surfaces and good mechanical fits where required. Elmer's yellow was deemed the proper adhesive.I took a couple of hours with sharp chisels to clean up the factory glue and casual fit. I used ratcheting tie down straps to clamp the neck in place until it was set and a more conventional

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Apparently it was a good year for garlic. I hadn't really noticed, but the numbers got my attention. Last year I planted 2.5kg of seed and saw a 460% return on that investment. This year I planted that same quantity and reaped a 776% return. The bulbs were not as spectacularly large like they were last year, but there sure was a lot of them. Here's to another hot dry summer next year. The onions

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I've been feeling shy so haven't written in ages. Life is active and filled with much to be grateful for. I doubt that another instrument in the house was really called for. Things do tend to click when the fire is hot though and I feel like I'll be saving this from becoming kindling to a less figurative fire. This is of West German manufacturer, but that's about all I know about it.Eme has

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I enjoy watching fireworks, but I enjoy firing it much more. These clips give a small fraction of the experience. You get nothing of the concussion here of course, which is what is so addictive for me. I don't know that I've ever met a more wildly diverse crew than the folks that show up to work with pyrotechnics. Recently I've met a military history professor, a stage manager for a major

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Strong medicine.I feel surrounded by the sacred here. Death is familiar and life is ever potently speaking to it.

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It's begun, again. The produce, encore, is more than just the eggs. The green onions are viscous, akin to when one cuts into an aloe vera plant. The contrast between what many people eat and these exotic choices is remarkable. The yolks are like paint and neither the eggs nor the onions closely resemble what I find in our grocery store. What luxuries these gifts are. Maybe an omelette tonight.

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Couldn't keep this one away from the salt chuck. Suitable prairie girl awe.Manon and Papa at the Englishman River bridge. Great childhood memories for me.Manon sitting above the Englishman River pool. In the fall you can swim with the brilliant coloured sockeye in this amazing pool.Manon and Bruce laughing while playing guitar. We played a lot. Lovely!Nana's quilt on the bed. This one doesn't

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The Scots apparently have one of the worst diets going. These were tasty, but maybe not best for the heart. One more thing off the bucket list. Makes me feel like I should hurry though.

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The flood is on. It was an impressive sight on this short drive to cross the Red.Highway #201 East of Letellier. The double lines server as a more visible guide for the single lanes of traffic. I can imagine that a trip into the ditch here might pose some problems above and beyond the usual grief. I wanted to build a raft with a sail so badly!

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Once again I'm prepared to rant about green washing. Our toaster was not cooperating so I got into it to see if I could help. Four screws, some scraping away of past toastage and a single screw adjustment did the deed for resurrection. Twenty five years of service and I'm certain it's now ready to face another lengthy leg of action. Great value. Thank-you brother David for the wonderful wedding

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What a kid. Taking two courses in the same time slot. She knows how to set goals, I'll give her that. Whoa.

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Twenty thousand stitches of love. Thanks Mum. Knitting is an act of love, unquestionably.

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The second attempt at making pulled pork went off very well. I browned up the cheap roast ($3.98) quite hard. I packed it into the bottom of the slow cooker smelling like heaven after it was browned. Lightly cooked a couple chopped garlic cloves, the spices and a medium onion in the same pot I used to brown the meat, gathering up all that brown goodness. I added a half teaspoon of dry mustard to

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A young aquantance commented to me that it wasn't "cool" that I was showing some disrespect for the TV show Jersey Shore.Some of the "cool" kids seem to love the show. I'm not cool by their standards, but I'm thinking they may have misunderstood the term. It's tough to see much of the world when you're viewing it from the bottom feeders perspective and I know that. There might be a bit of sky

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Collected some of the "not me" images and posted them to my work site. It seems that I spend a disproportionate amount of my time paddling backward through others speedy fixes.I do it at home a lot too. It's how I spend my days. Making grey laundry white etcetera.The work to be done is everywhere. The gift of marriage is that I've leaned to put relationships first and not stuff. Consequently the

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I'm a fix it guy. I'll take a swing at almost anything if it seems worth while keeping. Thanks go to Chris for passing along his old hardware. Muchas gracias brother. Chris is also responsible for some excellent programming that makes me look good at work. My mouse is one I now value and I'll keep the $75 for a new one and have some fun doing the refurbishment too. The trackball is easy on the

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One of the many pleasures through the winter season, for me, is in watching the birds swing from the lard log as they eat and I wash dishes. I like variety and winter is just one more cycle to find hidden treasures within. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with the negativity regarding winter. It seems to be seamless. I was ruminating on this as I played guitar by the wood stove, dressed in a touque

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JPBarlow's twitter contribution. He's been milking these out over the last few days. They've been enough to prompt me to post. I've been a little off my game. Sometimes I despair. Adult Principle #1: Be patient. No matter what.Adult Principle #2: Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn't say to him.Adult Principle #3: Never assume the motives of

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I really like having birds around the house during the winter months. I pay them back in feed supplements for adding spectacular colour and vitality to the somewhat desert like conditions here as we cross the winter solstice.In my over thinking way, I have developed some ideas of which there may be no merit. I like to feed most birds at a rate that is less than possible. Less is more. I could

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I heard someone suggest recently that there is no cold weather, only inappropriate clothing. I'm a fan of winter.This weekend was spectacular for weather. It began with the first of the seasons Arctic high pressure domes settling in and driving the temperatures slightly below seasonal norms and driving the clouds away. The weekend was so very beautiful. The moon wasn't in the way of the deep

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Wikileaks is coming out of the closet and into the mainstream more every day it seems. I read a lot. I think it takes a lot of reading to formulate informed opinion. Fortunately in the last 12 months or so I've managed to digest more novels than I have in a long time and that tends to lighten my view of the world. Or at least I hope it does. I really enjoy reading for pleasure. No fall

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From: http://www.uptownmag.com/music/features/Its-only-rock-n-roll-but-we-like-it-106630718.html"I think musicians tend to be a self-indulgent, navel-gazing lot," Doucet says. "Their biggest concern is that they won’t get the credit for creating all of the genius on the record. But I think your personality will always shine though. Your name — and face, probably — is on the album. You’re credited

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The summer is always busy, but I let work slide to spend a lot more time with loved ones through the summer and by the time the place is my own again I'm in a panic. The weather being as fickle as it is, introduces variables that demand I prioritize well and carefully. That task is not my strong suit.For six or seven weeks it's been a blur of intense activity. The backlog in the shop is slowly

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">http://www.khanacademy.org/http://www.khanacademy.org/frequently-asked-questions#how-to-helpWhat a huge resource for those in need of a little extra help with high school academics! I might have been braver about academics if I had known a place like this to supplement my classroom experience. Maybe not. It's based on the Open Source model of which I'm on the evangelical side of. I'll take

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The trees are brilliant with fall colours and there has been a large stable high pressure dome parked over us for days. The weather is spectacular. Fall is here and what a fantastic presentation it's provided us this year.Now back to our regular scheduled programming. Food.The eggs will soon have pale yolks again as the birds lose access to the greenery. At least they are laying and don't seem

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I could go on for a long time about the joys of the countless worthy reality checks that come with country life. I was first introduced to the dangers and rewards of the rural life at my aunt Rita and uncle Bob's. I'll always be a bit of a pansy next to their high expectations of what a man is supposed to be I think, but my kids could never be accused of being of that. It was a fantastic

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The hummingbirds stuck around through the 12th of September this year. It seems that anything past the labour day long weekend is a bonus. The grass is slowing down and the meat birds are looking very edible.Some other small stock owners have commented that the birds have struggled with some respiratory ailment and some of ours have some raspy breathing too. We didn't have to medicated them,

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That's not a cabbage. This is a cabbage! Ridiculous.

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I've had to create a new MSN account for those that want to reach me via the instant messaging service provided by Micro$oft. For those that wish, please add adhd@timshels.com to find me there.

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Steve got me thinking about tomatoes this morning. I don't need much prompting. PU used to horde them all until she had completed her canning, but in the last few years I've managed to weasel my way into an increasing number of these gems for eating fresh. Of course for lunch I had to have tomatoes in a sandwich on City Rye. I was going to make up some bacon and include some lettuce, but

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This shot is very flattering I must say. I've become confused about the amount I harvested this year. The figure I had seemed unreasonable so the jury remains out on the total weight.Every year I can't resist taking this same shot. Not very many hot peppers this year. I canned about three litres of sauce and remain very happy with the recipe. James and Boo picked wild grapes for jelly and

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Is this really the prairie farm lawn in the first week of September? It makes me want to throw a football. Fall must be close. It's not that we didn't have beautiful weather this summer. We had great stretches of heat and sunshine in abundance this year. It's just that mowing grass is getting tiresome. So I'm grousing a bit. Do you like the tent in the back yard? We live in a a place

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Add hawks to the squeeze of predator pressure this year. Yesterday a spectacular red tail hawk took a free lunch here. When I noticed that there were no birds out in the run I knew something was up. I wasn't prepared for this hawk to be as bold as brass, but it sure was. Given that we're down between 20 and 25 birds this year, it might have occurred to me to get my shotgun before heading off

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I like dill pickles. I like baby carrots that way and many other types, but once a year I enjoy fermented dills. I'm still developing the recipe and when it's settled down a bit I'll be happy to share. My primary document this year has helped to firm up some of the desirable salt concentrations and is this PDF from a school in Wisconsin, USA. It relies on weight measures which are really good

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There was some talk earlier this month about just how parasitic the Virginia Creeper was to the ancient Burr Oak north of the house. The creeper makes for a spectacular splash of colour later on in the fall so it would be a shame to have to miss it.Stress produces results, of that, I'm convinced. A pruning of the apple tree last year produced a bounty of crabs this summer. When I went to

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More than once we were faced with rubber boot moments. Of course none of us had rubbers. As I mentioned before, the meadows were spectacular.Water was available, but the best drinking water came from these small fast moving tiny streams. We filtered our water. The park recommends that it be boiled so one should do something other than drink it raw.It was not flat terrain.Beauty and the

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Had a great hike back into the west end of Riding Mountain National Park. Bonnie and myself along with Tyler and Trish made for a resourceful, resiliant and entertaining crew. We took an inch of rain the first afternoon on the trail and the winds were gusting to 70km/hr. With the cool temperatures the early stages of hypothermia set in pretty quickly after we stopped walking and set to work to

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All in one fell swoop we got three new appliances. There is nothing quite like deprivation to whet the appetite. I'm thrilled with the new additions.They were installed today painlessly by young bucks built for that work. Brilliant!

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We've been getting an extraordinary amount of rain. When we bought this place, we were most concerned that the water well would support us. We've only had once instance in the twenty or so years that we've been here where that's actually materialized as cause for concern. Yesterday we got another 18mm which we did not need. The lawn is very soft under foot. The gardens are struggling to

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It's been a bit hectic here. A week ago last Saturday the hungry bears made a bid to feast on chicken feed and continued to hound us through the middle of the week. That feast included the chickens themselves. Once again we'll be a little short of layers than I'd like. It's not quite the devastation of the crazy dog killing 19 that was the last blow thankfully. We've been here since 1991 and

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We've been battling bears ineffectively for a week. I'm short several chickens. I took some time yesterday to get to Margaret's and capture a few of these prickly pear blooms while they were still fresh. I would love to have a huge bed of these. I wish the light had been better, but there were things to do to help the cause at home that had nothing to do with frittering away more hours taking

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It's a wonderful thing living in the wild. Yes there are bugs, but those bugs feed a plethora of other critters that I would not care to be without either. Bring the bug juice and come marvel at Mother Nature's beauty.I've been trying to find time to get out between cutting the grass and the rain storms to take some images of the field across the road from us. It's spectacular in it's wild

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I keep a couple of aquariums running, but the investment is casual. I like to watch them like I like to watch a fire. I've been curious about cichlid fanatics for a long time and yesterday sought out an international globe trotting chichlaholic by the Name of Spencer Jack. More chichlids than you could shake a crooked stick at. I was hunting down some rainbow species for the larger of my two

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Toured the Ever Spring Orchid nursery for an hour or so yesterday. What a tight ship it must be to have orchids blooming year round in Manitoba. Everything seemed to be very controlled. The lighting was provided by 500w compact florescent bulbs. The walls and ceiling were decked out in flat white; no doubt to provide excellent reflection for the artificial light. The floors under the tables

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I'm a witness to many things. This is one of them.It's funny how one minute you're watching kids learn to swim at the local country pool twenty miles from home and the next they're finished their first year at McGill for Polysci, and working with the FNCFCS and IDS the Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights. What wonderful horse power!I would encourage you to accept

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The lilacs attract a hummingbird moth. I think this one is called a "clearwing."I love these masters of imitation. There were several out and about last evening. I wish I could have captured a better image of the critter, but without killing it and or more investment in time and energy than was available, this is what I could get. Neat eh?

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The dogs bolted while I blinked. They were gone for a couple of days. The unspoken rule in the country is that if you're confronted with a stray dog, it's your obligation to shoot it. Packing feral dogs are not what anyone wants. Except on the Native reserve, but that's another story all together. They are really dangerous. Rosie will tease Tom into a grand tour of the neighbourhood at the

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I'm home safe and sound after a four day tour by canoe down the Whitemouth River. I don't think I've done anything so physically challenging since the Polar Bear run. Daryl was my host and I haven't been out to camp with him for many years so it was a great opportunity to ground that part of our friendship again in new country to both of us.The River is obviously a small one and at it's head

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Tonight I put the needles away, collected the pattern notes, tucked the upholstery needle back in the packet from whence it came and filed them all back into the bottom drawer of the cedar chest right close to the yarn so they wouldn't feel too neglected. Hopefully there can now commence some fence post pounding and such.The touque be done.

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I had to rip this out numerous times to synchronise the width and length. I only had a very little bit of this yarn to play with. This type of novelty yarn is new to me.

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A new entry this morning on timshels.com I don't often get to challenge myself with fine wood working, but I enjoy it when I get to play there. I had no idea how I was going to make this long and very regular piece of wood agree with a discriminating eye so I just made a start and hoped it would work out. Apparently patience is a universal prerequisite for success. When I was done, it felt

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I was happy to find some morels left after the dehydrator was filled. Can one have too many morels? I think not. Breakfast baby!

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These needles feel so exotic. I was talking to Mum earlier today about procuring wool that's got more lanolin in it than the yarn I knit the sweater from this winter. Soft and smooth was on my mind. These needles are as smooth as silk and so light. I hope they work well. They feel fantastic.Ram Wools Yarn Co-op was on my list of stops today on my city adventures. I was wearing a ball cap

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Although the temperature was dropping all day and quite nasty with wind and rain, it was spring. The air was rife with the fragrance of the land drinking in this spring moisture. I was headed to the barn to feed the birds and cats when I walked by this guy and couldn't resist going back for a camera.I wonder if that hump on his back is an indication of age?Rosy in the background dutifully

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I don't know a more reliable way to get a rise out of my women folk than to suggest even the smallest investment of time and energy in a bike project. There is some deep hard wiring involved there, but I have some of that going on myself when it comes to bikes. What's bred in the bone and all. More will be revealed. The tank is filled with scale. I'd say there might be a few centimetres of

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Done deal. First mitts are finished. The second one is a lot more attractive than the first, but over all I'm excited to have such a useful skill added to the repertoire. I'm hoping that a touque is next, but I'm not sure. I have a pattern for some felted slippers that I'd like to do too. Then again, as Mum said, it is spring and there are other things to do. Does that mean that I shouldn't

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I was really frustrated with my first mitt. The instructions made little sense when I wasn't able to create the image of where they were pointing to in my head. I stumbled through, but the second one is looking much improved.One of the things I found most frustrating with the first one was using a conventional stitch holder for the thumb while I went on to knit the top of the mitt. The holder

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I'm a fan of Monday. Monday is the come down day from whatever hype the weekend had to offer. For instance, yesterday we fed 12 in fine fashion in the square foot challenged butter box we call home. It's much more quiet just now.That's not to suggest that I wasn't contributing more than my share to the noise, just that variety is the spice, as some say.What better way to break up the monotony

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It took a few days to identify, but I pulled a neat creature out of some pond water across the road last weekend. It turned out to be a Fairy Shrimp which I'd never seen before. A crustacean with some interesting reproductive habits. Aren't they all interesting? The eggs have to dry out and cab lay dormant for several years and then hatch thirty hours after a rain. They're really well suited

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Last year when the kids were all buzzing about the new "Glee" show on TV I was skeptical, but then was quickly won over with the refreshing content. The show season was split up with by more than a nearly five month lay off. With a lot of hype and a new episode this week we had a little get together here with some of the local choir members in celebration. We all had a great bit of fun singing

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You know you're married to a real woman when you find strike anywhere wooden matches in her house coat. I chuckled to myself today when I found these matches. She lights a mean fire. What a gal!

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How much fun will this be? I'll be there with bells on. I'm sure Snoot will be in like a dirty shirt. The image is linked to a flyer that has some video available. This is going to be great and as my Dad likes to say, the price is right.

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This morning I had the best tea ever. I worked on a computer for a friend helping her with some Linux issues and she fed me the most amazing tea so far.The Manitoba Maple (box elder) trees produce a big character syrup for those that care to gather and boil down the sap. There is quite a celebration of this local flavour in St. Pierre just north of us. I did this one year and the yield was

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Snoot having a go at Elliott Brood's - The Valley Town. A ukulele is like a side car on a motorcycle. It brings a broad smile to my face. I need to pick up the pace so we can do this together.

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As you like have gathered if you follow this blog often, I like images. I saw a mosaic of words weighted by their frequency of use in the recent federal government throne speech. It fires my imagination to view information in new ways.Yesterday I saw one ranking different health supplements against a "worth it" line. I couldn't help but check it out when I saw the url listed as http://

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After a lot of trail and error my new work site is launched at long last. Please have a peek around the new look.www.timshels.comThere are a lot of content changes and images to add, a blog to move and an image gallery to configure, but it's a good start I think. It no longer looks like it was built in 1995 either! A real web developer is a good thing. Thanks Chris.

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I see a lot of soft solder repairs like this. I'm not sure what the attraction is, but it's always bad. Solder like this is corrosive and rarely remains bound to what it was meant to fixture. I've got an entire folder of images titled "notme" to remind me to behave myself. Hopefully I'll have a place to showcase some of those images shortly. I smell a new website for work coming!

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Such a garden variety tarantula these are, but they don't put up much of a fuss which makes them attractive in their own way. This G. rosea was out on tour last night entertaining the company so I took advantage of the photo opp.

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Spring is coming. What a typical early spring day on the prairie. A wind that could suck the life out of you, temperatures that would be warm if the darned wind wasn't howling and pussy willows!The girls went for a long walk today along the two mile loop around by Terry's. The walk follows the escarpment above the Roseau River and then back through to the road and home. Bonnie got some great

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There is nothing like the smell of nitro in the morning, no? Here's what Frosty has been up to this winter. I'm a lot of things, but a gear head would rank up near the top, at least in my non-tree hugging moments.That's some fine machine work dude!I haven't made anything recently that has moved me to show my efforts at the Estevan Model Engineers Show, but I have in the past. Rubbing shoulders

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I've done repairs for and business with Gold-N-Memories in Steinbach for many years. They are wonderful people to deal with. No hissy fits when the train comes off the tracks, no blame game, just an interest in getting to the station in once piece with smiles all round. More joy! How can that be a bad thing?They are the only wholesale account I kept once I began to concentrate only on

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For all those with some boy left to celebrate. Download the pdf file and get to it. Spend some time with a young one that could use some one on one time. Whatever, just do it.

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I saw the largest flock of wild turkeys today that I've ever seen anywhere in the wild. They were beside the road a mile north of the house. A good mix of younger toms and hens with one monster tom ruling the flock. The sun was bright, the temperature warm and the display was fantastic. I think there were about thirty of these wild turkeys mulling about. In true rural tradition, a neighbour

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When I was more active with the Manitoba Herpetocultural Society I arranged for Stanley Schultz to give a presentation on arachnids one evening on his way through Winnipeg. It was filled with his expert theory of how he believes tarantulas should be kept in captivity. It was insightful and informative and he was an energetic speaker. He travels around North America full time seeking out

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I've had such a good experience buying glasses online it's difficult not to slap you all with my enthusiasm. First time buyers get 25% off if you use the code from Glassyeyes. Coastal are the cream of the crop. No corners cut there, but not likely the best value. From what I can gather, Zenni remains the best value.Boo just bought three pair of prescription glasses from another online vendor

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On my way to the barn to feed the cats and chickens this morning, there were a few speed freaks overhead. A small flock of about a dozen geese (Greater Canada) went by. The wind really hadn't come up on the ground yet, but it was obviously clipping along at a pretty good pace above the trees. I presume that my perception of their incredibly quick traverse of the yard was partly due to their

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Happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me...

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I'm a bowl guy. I lived with an artist many years ago and that helped trained me to use and love hand made bowls. I usually buy my bowls when I go west to see M&P, but my favourite potter there has flown the coup for greener pastures in Calgary so I came home empty handed.I decided to dedicate some time to sourcing some local potters and today was the first step in that search. The University

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This is the prettiest thing I've seen in a while. I wish my own executive function could have produced it, but that was not to be. Thanks to Chris for beating me to it and for helping develop my ear for electric guitars.This is so darned elegant looking, don't you think? Now that the sweater is finished, the guitar rebuild is taking shape. At least it is shaping up in my mind.Did we leave

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Our eldest is in the home stretch of a busy trip to Cambodia and Thailand. Her last week will be spent snorkeling from the white sand beaches of Koh Samet. I think she's getting her fair share of fun out of this month long dance. Good on her!Google images of Kho Samet

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The outside dog, Tom, was coming unglued tonight with the racket from the coyotes. One or more had obviously whelped today and the party was on. What a display of "Where the Wild Things Are" it is to be standing out in the drizzle and fog while a half dozen coyotes sound like twenty five, very close by.I've hiked and camped and spent lots of time as a kid romping around the bush, but moments

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The link in the title takes you some images taken during a workshop I attended in 2007. I really enjoy Laura's energy. It's seemingly boundless. I met her while I was helping guide some elementary school kids through a tour of the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Gardenton. Laura won me over in the first fifteen minutes of the tour when she suggested we take the kids in the swamp to get them

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Another in the entry for the Sunday kitchen table reading material series. I do the maintenance on the machines. PU's dedicated to helping the less than adorable in society's off spring. Admirable, but definitely an acquired taste. Empathy is a defining concept everywhere I look.

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Say what you will. I'd hate to be without the distraction of the Internet.Here's a guy that's into sharing, for those that need to do something with their hands. Boo? Are you listening. :D Petr Stuchly' origami images. http://www.flickr.com/photos/petr-stuchly/Petr's older Flickr accounthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/25853667@N04/

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Ya, ya, ya, I need more sleep. That's a constant.I need a camera to do macro well. I need to document my work and most of that is small. I can show clients what they are buying if I can get a decent representation of the work. I also like to give people good photographic evidence of their time pieces in case they ever go missing or get damaged. Dad gave me this five year old Olympus to play

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I'm so grateful to have reared three kids that know their way around the kitchen. I'm down right proud of it. Snoot was having a bad hair day and at 16 years old that's not a good thing. So she was shy of the camera. The hair was not bad enough to stop her making a beautiful stuffed crust pizza though. Yummers. I even had an IPA on hand to swill with the this brilliant offering.I was not in

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More fun in the shop. I've done work for these folks for a long time. I found a crack in the bottom of their perfectly serviceable wooden pendulum rod and thought I'd add some value to the quoted work. I'm not really big on wood work. It's not like metal at all. Metal usually behaves predictably. My experiences with wood are less.I brought in a blank from eastern Canada that was far too

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I live with someone that has a seemingly endless capacity to absorb and then put into practice these types of lessons. Dinner conversation is often not for the faint of heart. She's been at this for many years. She can tell a mean story if you can ask the right questions. I like to think I helped her cut her teeth. Joke! It's a joke damn it!She's some kind of good at this stuff from what I

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Could laser welders be more fun? Not a hint of heat to this weld which means that all the spring remains in the surrounding steel. Brilliant! Now if I could just remember to include a penny to show how darn small this part is. Gha!

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Proof positive that the deed is done. What tremendous pleasure it is to wear it. It is a meditative sport, knitting. One I'm sure to return to. I had my first trails with double pointed needles when I was on the coast. Could socks be next? Socks and tuque remain on the bucket list.

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Home from a week on the wet/left coast. The older I get the more I enjoy my parents company. Dad made up shortbread to send home and Mum slipped some budding daffodils, a Greek geranium cutting and a few healthy sprigs of rosemary into my bag on the way out. Brother Bruce came up from Seattle for the weekend and brought his usual treasure trove of laughs with him. Some fine IPA's too. PU

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Brother Biff prompted my memory with a set list from an old concert this morning, but it didn't match my memory. I can't believe what trusting souls we were back then. I was young! I was heading into grade eight and off to a sold out arena rock concert in downtown Vancouver. I'm not sure I could swallow letting one of our kids follow in that path at that age now. Maybe that's just the nature

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Best Oly CTV feature spot so far. A special feature with a Jon Montgomery, the skeleton specialist from Russell MB., introducing Jacques to just how tough skeleton can be. Edit:The link at CTV to the clip for those that can stream. Scroll down on the left to "How Tough Are These Sports?: Montgomery & Villeneuve"They introduced Jacques at the lowest level and then in four stages moving up the

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Today Snoot was celebrating the shirt she made and I was celebrating the luxury of the work I do.This little pretty watch comes to me all the way from Washington State. The engraving is still crisp. It's quite well preserved. What a treat!

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My Mum phoned today to see if I was still alive so I thought I'd best post something. I'm well into the second sleeve of the charcoal sweater and rather fixated on the work. I ran yesterday for fun. I've got doctors fussing about my heart so I haven't been running. They told me to not do anything too stressful. Yesterday I decided that was a relative term not an absolute one. I have a

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Guitars are a passion. I will never be a great player and maybe not even a decent player, but I'm all over the sensual things in life and I love the sound and feel of a fine instrument. I've been lucky to own some amazing instruments built by a local luthier at Perry Gutiars. I'd encourage you to poke around his gallery on line and drink in the fine skills on display there.I'm fortunate to

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The past couple of days have signaled that the egg drought is over! Two dozen in two days from our small flock are wonderful results given that it's mid winter and the light is thin these days. I learnt some things along the way so expect to have some outstanding hatch rates this spring. I love the feed they are on just now. It's of my own formulation which means that it's pretty darn clean

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This pan says it's made in England. Does anyone know what it is designed to bake? I've been lusting after some madeleine pans, but that's not what these are I don't think. Maybe an English version of them?

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From the way back machine... 1987. That was a great guitar. Christmas was full of surprises and warm family fun this year.

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