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Storm Apple Sauce
Apple sauce for dessert, made with apples from our own trees, picked last night in advance of the hurricane. Fine downtown Charlottetown terroir. Applesauce100 Prince Street
View ArticleWe are okay
We are okay.Hurricane Fiona was truly horrific and the devastation to property, and to the trees of the city, boggles the mind: we lost almost every tree in our yard, and there are trees, some massive,...
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Hurricane Fiona + Pressure + CO2
We’ve just come out the other end of Hurricane Fiona. The worst of the storm passed through Prince Edward Island in the early morning hours of Saturday, September 24.Inspired by a blog post from Matt...
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The Clearing
My neighbours Doug, Andrea, and Meghan, Lisa, my brother Mike and his partner Karen, and my friend Lauranne, have been very helpful in clearing the felled trees from the back yard here at 100 Prince...
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Olivia Turned 22
We celebrated Olivia last night with a small gathering of Charlottetown friends in The Rafters on Queen Street, a last minute post-hurricane celebration that will be followed up later with a larger do....
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Hooligans vs. EV Charger
My Kia Soul EV was charging in my driveway this weekend, a little closer to the sidewalk than usual because we had two cars in the driveway. When I came out in the morning to unplug the charger, half...
View ArticleThe $250
Through the Red Cross, the Province of PEI is sending $250 to each Prince Edward Island household that registers here.“Everyone has been impacted in some way by Hurricane Fiona,” said Premier Dennis...
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Stefan, Thirty Years Later
I met Stefan Kirkpatrick on the day he was born, in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1988.His parents, George and Leslie, were good friends of mine; confidants, protectors.Two years later I travelled with...
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Firewood from Fiona
I’m upping my game from Canadian Tire fire logs to maple firewood harvested from Hurricane Fiona-downed trees from the back yard. Hurricane FionaTrees
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Still Standing
We lost a lot of trees in Charlottetown. But not all of them. Hurricane FionaTrees
View ArticleLearned Helpfulness
Learned helplessness is an interesting idea, and Wikipedia sums up current thinking well:Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond...
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Returning The Sectional
Remember The Sectional I wrote about last month? We’ve decided to return it!Cozey has a very generous 30-day return policy:Choosing the right sofa can be tricky, which is why we offer a 30-day...
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Emergency Radios
Our first post-Fiona emergency preparedness purchases arrived today: two Midland ER210 emergency crank weather radios, the Wirecutter runner-up pick. They were $67 each, ordered online, on sale, from...
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непрерывка
I have more than a passing interesting in calendars, and especially in calendars that break outside the norm, so Calendar Collective is a fragrant flower to my calendar-loving honeybee brain:Calendar...
View ArticleAnnals of Creepy Data Surveillance
In a story in today’s Guardian about the slow progress the Red Cross has made in distributing Hurricane Fiona support payments to Islanders is a rather creepy revelation that the organization is using...
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The Final 21
In the pantheon of Hurricane Fiona stories, I got nothing, relatively speaking, on the hardship file. Yes, my back yard lost a lot of trees, but with the help of neighbours, friends, and family, they...
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Brown vs. Villard
Two of the declared candidates for Mayor in Charlottetown have located their offices directly beside each other. Incumbent Philip Brown’s campaign is in the former My Plum, My Duck; next door, Cecil...
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Close Zipper!
I bought a smart new MacBook Air M2 earlier this year: it’s a lovely machine, fast and sleek and better in almost all ways than the 11 year old MacBook Air it replaced (I get good mileage out of big...
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Very Late Newspaper Delivery
A copy of the Journal-Pioneer for October 22, 1965 appeared in my vestibule this afternoon. “Most Difficult Space Attempt 3 Days Away.” You read it here first.
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