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There’s nothing quite like realizing that your garden sucks.
When I bought the house, I couldn’t really see the backyard gardens — there was quite a lot of snow. That obscured pretty much everything worth seeing and worth hiding. So naturally, when summer rolled around, I was surprised by the plethora of vegetation that was growing [...]

This weekend, Alex and I went camping. It was the first time I’d gone camping since about 1997, before I’d moved to Vancouver. Seven years is far too long a dry period.
We weren’t camping alone, though. My aunt and uncle had invited us. This meant a good campsite (because Brenda would get up there long [...]

The Calgary Stampede is up and running again. The kick-off was on Friday, with the much-anticipated Stampede parade. Naturally following the parade is another much-anticipated event in Calgary…
The Stampede Breakfast.
This has got to be one of the weirdest phenomenons I’ve ever experienced. Malls, business, even small communities all over the city sponsor free (or exceptionally [...]

Saturday started with the *hope* of going out to Elbow Falls to try and do some hiking. Notice that I used the word “hope”. Hope turned to not, with the realization that the weather wasn’t likely to cooperate with us.
We slept in a bit.
After packing in some breakfast, Alex and I went out to do [...]

Our fair country has been around for 137 years, now, and it doesn’t look a day over 100 — we’ve still got all the problems we did back in ‘67.
Alex and I had a fairly action-packed day. We started off with a jaunt over to Booster Juice to get ourselves a snack to get the [...]