Part I, if you did not catch it, is here. But to summarize, the fitness tracker totally screws up its heart rate measurements at critical exercise moments, meaning that everything it calculates about fitness based on that (minutes of exercise… Read More ›
Although I have done my best to eradicate them (they do not play well with others), we have hundreds of columbines again this year, in every shade imaginable between pinkishly white and as purple as midnight.
Every now and again the very obvious truth of some matter will wriggle its way through my thick skull and kick me in the brain and I will wonder how on Earth I did not see this before. That happened… Read More ›
If we’d played our cards right, my GPS watch and I could have walked from Montreal to Mexico City and back again, such was the distance we’ve covered together in the last seven years. But the poor thing is now… Read More ›
Early April’s snow showers have given way to dry, cool, sunny days and frosty nights. And dry is not what the vegetation is used to here. The last time April was this dry, which was a couple of years ago,… Read More ›
I can’t decide if this makes me happy or sad. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information
After getting colder than usual here (down to -15C), the weather unexpectedly chucked a bunch of snow down on Monday late afternoon, just as Spouse and his first employee (who had come for his first day of work despite later… Read More ›
**SPOILER ALERT** We didn’t get hit by the blizzard, which also didn’t turn out to be the blizzard of the century. I, for one, mostly because I don’t know what I’m talking about, am disappointed. But most people here are… Read More ›
It snowed here for the first time worth mentioning in a couple of years. Although it was thin on the ground and it’s pretty darned flat here, I was inspired to excavate the little wooden sled with the Made in… Read More ›
