Month: October 2021

  • Sourdough Science Saturday

    My starter is a little over two and a half years old and as I alluded to in my previous post I’ve baked about two hundred and fifty-ish loaves of bread with it, pre- and during pandemic. You would almost think I would understand it better. About an hour ago I pulled my Thanksgiving loaf

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  • Short: Long Weekend & Floury Friday

    In Canada, we celebrate our Thanksgiving in October. The right way. And as we prepare a large meal for Sunday evening, my wife is out shopping for a fresh turkey and I’ve spent Friday evening getting my sourdough started. While making sourdough has become fairly routine around our house, I find myself usually making sandwich

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  • Into the Woods and Fog

    I’ve been tangled up in a philosophical kinda-sorta feedback loop inside my own head. See, nearly two weeks before sitting down to write this post I ran a half marathon through the local wilderness. Anyone who carefully read that post may recall that I briefly alluded to a conversation I’d had with a local trail

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  • How to Draw; a Poem

    I’ve been doing a lot of sketching and watercolour in my free time. I won’t claim that it’s anything amazing … not yet … but I’m enjoying my newfound hobby and I feel like I’m starting to see the world in one of two ways, things that I could paint or things that I would

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  • Meta Monday: Undaily(ish.)

    While I hope no one missed my ramblings for a short week, it felt quite a lot longer. I gave myself permission to pause my writing here for the last few days. (And a couple other things.) Life has a way of steamrolling you from a blind spot now and then, and on the (purely

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