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Pride Tie Dye
As part of the run-up to Pride Week, The Lucky Bean in Stratford hosted a “make your own tie dye t-shirt workshop” tonight, and Olivia and I signed up.Tie dye, aesthetically or big-messily, has never...
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Parking Meter UX
How many ID numbers and “no parking” rules (with different dates) can Charlottetown pack onto a single parking meter?
View ArticleI read 22 years of blog posts. It took a year.
Starting on July 12, 2020, I began reading my blog from the beginning, one day of the year’s worth of posts at a time. As of this week I’ve read the entire corpus. Since my first one on May 31, 1999,...
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Strap on a Loaf
Item one on today’s list of 8 critical things was to make one of the sauces from this New York Times article. I chose this roasted tomato dressing and then immediately realized that I was lacking...
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The Garden Café in New Glasgow
Bruce MacNaughton has opened a lovely new riverside café beside the Prince Edward Island Preserve Company in New Glasgow. I had my Saturday morning coffee there this morning, and it was lovely, both...
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Lobster Cohorts
On the wharf in North Rustico Harbour. Apparently the lobsters are also subjected to colour-coded cohorts. We were there to try out the new Blue Mussel Café side-hustle The Blue Roller, in a trailer...
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Mabel Murple’s Book Shoppe and Dreamery
I had no idea that Sharee Fitch runs a seasonal bookstore just across:Writer, poet, educator, Sheree Fitch & husband Gilles Plante, a retired CBC cameraman and ENG producer & carpenter live on...
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The Canoe Resurrection Project
Many many years ago, well before Olivia was born, Catherine and I bought a canoe, from Sporting Intentions, two locations ago. We had aspirations, and while we did put in a few times—in Bonshaw, in...
View Article“Another one bites the dust”
My friend Carmin Smith-Hanson made a documentary about the demise of the last grain elevator in Meacham, Saskatchewan. There’s a lot of wisdom in the film.MeachamHistoryDocumentary
View ArticleBicycle Stokvel
From the latest issue of Huck, an article about Bicycle Stokvel:It’s easy to find Lesogo Konupi on the block. A small bicycle figurine on his postbox reveals him as the owner of a certain rectangular...
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Grey on Grey
I unknowingly ended up wearing an outfit today that could be the uniform for a casual boutique hotel. Grey
View Article“Travel Is No Cure for the Mind”
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind, from Lawrence Yeo:When we are obsessed with travel, we are intently focused on changing and revising our external venue while neglecting the one constant we all travel...
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The Shed Sweets
The Shed has these sweets, made for them by Angel, that are apparently gluten free and dairy free, but are nonetheless very very good; kind of like Nanaimo bars, but less all-consuming. They go very...
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The FedEx Run
My Apple AirTag arrived today by FedEx. Apparently the relaxed “you don’t actually need to sign for anything” COVID regime is over, so I got my first “your package will be at the depot after 4:30 p.m....
View ArticleWe could have had an Abegweit Crossing instead of a Confederation Bridge
From Wade MacLauchlan’s biography of Alex Campbell:When it came time to choose a name for the new fixed link, Alex Campbell, by then a justice of the PEI Supreme Court, was asked to chair the panel....
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Provincial Credit Union Gets TFA!
I’ve been doing my banking with Provincial Credit Union for 28 years. Which is funny to think about as I still consider myself a “new customer,” when clearly I am that no longer.I was an enthusiastic...
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Canoe Fixed!
Thanks to the good offices of the talented Jason Richard, my canoe is repaired: the seat in the bow is re-affixed and the bow deck is re-attached.Next step: find the paddles and life jackets.Canoe
View ArticleBBEdit 14
When I switched to a Mac decades ago, BBEdit was my OG text editor. In the years since I’ve been lured away by the siren call of TextMate and then of Sublime Text. But now BBEdit 14 is out and its...
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