Mandy Patinkin: The Stakes
Mandy Patinkin:I’m so nervous about this election I’m making my own damn campaign videos. Please get involved! Join one of these orgs and commit to volunteering. Get friends involved. Don’t have any...
View ArticleLentil Soup
I made a lentil soup for supper tonight with Paul Offer’s carrots, onions, peppers, leeks and potatoes, kale from Cranbush Farms, lentils from Riverview Country Market, and Purity Dairy sour cream....
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Chair Assembly
Our dining room chairs have forever been a bodged together collection of scavenged chairs that forever seem on the verge of collapse. Having spent a week living with IKEA IVAR chairs while on...
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Chairs Assembled
After a an hour or so of round-peg-in-round-hole work, the painted IVAR chairs are assembled and in place. To take this photo required I attend to a long-accumulating pile of things-to-go-elsewhere, so...
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September Apple Announcement
A late summer gift from Catherine, who planted apple trees in our back yard many years ago. It’s a great year for apples. CatherineApples100 Prince Street
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The Applesauce Maker
Catherine liked to accumulate kitchen tools–I’ve found three crock pots, at least, squirrelled away in various places–and much of my curation over recent months has been figuring out what to keep and...
View ArticleThe Healthy School Lunch Program
Prince Edward Island’s Healthy School Lunch Program launches today, something Oliver and I saw evidence of out at Gallant’s on Saturday morning picking up our salmon bagels: the kitchen was filled with...
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Jackson Ripens
I’ve been patiently waiting for the four tomatoes on Jackson to ripen; until earlier this week, they showed no signs of doing so. And then, suddenly, yesterday morning one turned red, after a...
View Article"I Like Your Buttons!"
Back in April I dipped into Catherine’s button jar and sewed some colourful buttons on my cardigan.I’ve been wearing this selfsame cardigan around town for the last week, now that the days have turned...
View ArticleOliver in the Terry Fox Run
Thanks to the good graces of Bob Gray, Oliver will participate in a standalone, socially-distanced, COVID-compliant Terry Fox run this weekend, marking an unbroken line of participation that extends...
View ArticleBack to Face to Face
One of the pleasant side-effects of COVID was that meetings, of any sort, just stopped. Suddenly days were carefree and wide open. Productivity soared. Maybe we didn’t need meetings at all!Then Zoom...
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My Mail-in Ballot Arrived
The U.S. citizen part of my dual-nationality received email notification today that my ballot for the November 2020 U.S. elections was ready for download.The process started with sending a ballot...
View ArticleSoftware Upgrade
My Kia Soul EV needed a software upgrade, a recall that automatically applies the parking brake when the car is shifted into “park.”My last parking brake-related automobile repair was that time in the...
View ArticleCity of Charlottetown Live Video Link
Because it’s not easy to find otherwise, here’s the easy to remember link for live-streaming from the City of Charlottetown (council and committee meetings):https://www.charlottetown.ca/videoOn that...
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Jackson on a Bagel
I ate Jackson for lunch. Or at least one of Jackson’s tomatoes. It took 107 days from planting Jackson’s seedling to harvesting Jackson’s first tomato.I sliced the tomato up, toasted a St. Viateur...
View ArticleLong Way Up
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back on their motorcycles, this time riding from Argentina to LA in Long Way Up, premiering tonight in Apple TV+. They rode electric Harleys, supported by a team...
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Saturday Night at the Movies
Ever since we installed a video projector in our living room a few months ago, Oliver and I have had a movie night every Saturday. Oliver came up with a system for selecting what movie we watch: one...
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Oliver and Bob Cure Cancer
These two raised almostmore than $800 for cancer research today with their homebrew Terry Fox Run.
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Apple Plum Sauce
With Hurricane Teddy on the way, it seemed like a good afternoon to pick the apples. And as I was picking the apples, I realized the plum tree was filled with the most wonderful ripe plums. So I picked...
View ArticleThe mouse problem that became a cat problem
Twenty years ago today on the radio I talked to Matt Rainnie about the cats of Marion Island. It was, I think, the high point of my erstwhile side hustle as a broadcaster.MainstreetCBCCatsMatt Rainnie
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