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Riverview Italian Sodas
Riverview Country Market has a new line of Italian sodas, made fresh in store from real ingredients. On our cycle ride today we stopped in for groceries and then enjoyed sodas on their porch: I had a...
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The Last Weekend
Next week the “Atlantic Bubble” will allow the influx of hordes from away, with their COVID-19 and their strange modern ideas; as such, this was the weekend for Islanders to get out and take one last...
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Hoito
The restaurant in Thunder Bay where my grandparents met in the 1930s has declared bankruptcy and may (re)reorganize as a cooperative.HoitoThunder Bay
View Article"craftsmanship, repairability and design for longevity"
Gianfranco Chicco, editor of The Craftsman, speaks with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino about ”craftsmanship, repairability and design for longevity” on the Catastrophic Candour video series (via Peter...
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Stop. Look. Go.
Packed into this sign, posted at the head of a trail at Sally’s Beach in eastern PEI, is a potent set of only-in-Canada assumptions: that anyone will read such a wordy sign, that anyone has the vaguest...
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A New Kind of Canada Day
Oliver was distressed this morning that almost all of the usual Canada Day routines had been erased from the schedule, either due Catherine’s death or COVID-19. So there was to be no music in Victoria...
View ArticleClint Eastwood fills in for Charlton Heston at the 1973 Oscars
Clint Eastwood talks to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show about how he was pegged to fill in for the absent Charlton Heston at the 1973 Academy Awards.Here’s the broadcast itself, with Eastwood...
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The Beautiful PiSound
My PiSound arrived today in the post from Lithuania: it’s a sound card for a Raspberry Pi, and will be the heart of my plot to create a box to stream the sounds of Prince Edward Island to the world...
View ArticleAllan Rankin on Lowell Croken
Allan Rankin writes about Lowell Croken in the Eastern Graphic:From the outset there was strong resistance to this new Waste Watch program.Enter Lowell Croken, a junior level public servant at the time...
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Post-Apocalyptic Farmers' Market
Last night on the regular family zoom it was trivia night. Oliver made up the teams: OG Canada, OG USA, New Canada. I made up the questions, questions like:The following pairs of NHL players are each...
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Bubbling Over
When speculation of an “Atlantic Bubble” began—quarantine free travel to neighbouring provinces—I was skeptical: why on Earth would we want to leave PEI at a time like this!? And why would we want...
View ArticleStole into Nova Scotia
We drove off the ferry and into Nova Scotia. No checks. No ID. No forms. Pleasant and disquieting both.
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Masked Men Coming Home
Our night and day in Halifax was an invaluable respite; even though the visit was short, I’m so glad we went.Halifax is as ghost town-like as Charlottetown, perhaps even more so: we walked from...
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First Long Distance Electric Vehicle Trip: Charlottetown to Halifax and Back
Since we bought our Kia Soul EV in December, the Holy Grail of trips has been Charlottetown to Halifax, that being the far reaches of our need to travel by car. We don’t go to Halifax often–perhaps...
View ArticleThrive not Survive
Perhaps the most motivating call to action I’ve ever had was when a school board official told me and Catherine, in 2014, that “educational assistants are in schools to allow students to survive, not...
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Upping My Backyard Game
Ironically, given the worldwide “go into your houses and do not emerge until at least 2022” feeling in the air, this has been a more social summer than any summer since the early 1990s for me,...
View Article“Two burgers worth, please...”
As I move, ever so slowly, toward full-service parenting, new hurdles arise: today’s was cooking meat.I have been a vegetarian for as long as I can remember, and the last time I purchased meat was...
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Green on Green on Green
From our favourite bench in the Gardens of Hope, painted after raspberry pie and iced tea. The Preserve Company has pivoted to encourage picnics in the garden, which seems just about the best way to...
View ArticleWhat did I write on this day?
Inspired by Ton’s mention of an on this day page for his blog, I created a similar page for mine: it links to all the posts written on the current day of the current month, back to 1999.I also created...
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brilliance lies in execution
Several weeks ago my friend Elmine wrote about a notepad emblazoned with Brilliant Ideas, in part:None of the ideas I wrote down were brilliant. That’s because the branding of this note pad is totally...
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