Category: cast iron guy

  • A Good Life, Well-lived & Enjoyed Aloud

    As I write these words the final month of the first year of this blog has arrived. It’s December. And after a mind-numbing and depressing 2020 I’ve been penning my thoughts and opinions here throughout 2021 to the tune of one hundred and seven thousand, three hundred and eighty three previously published words into two

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  • Simple Pan Basics

    I continue to look for interestingly complex recipes to cook and share on this blog (though I’ll admit this is neither a major theme nor the sole purpose of this site to share recipes) and occasionally I’ll post one. But then other times I like to retreat to something more simple and remind my readers

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  • My Little Orphan Plant Project

    I’m overstating it a little bit, but for the second time in as many months I found myself browsing through the reject tropical plant rack at another local hardware superstore and filling an handbasket with a motley assortment of discount greenery to bring home. Yesterday I came home with (another) six potted indoor plants, all

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  • Them Feets

    Sunday Runday, and I didn’t. For a whole week I’ve been sidelined by a heel ailment that I’ve self-diagnosed as a touch of plantar fasciitis, or runner’s heel. Them feets! The thing is that I’m supposed to run a half marathon in a little more than a month. The thing is that I need to

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  • Pandemic Puppies

    At least half the dogs in our neighbourhood these days are less than a year and a half old. The pandemic puppy phenomenon did not pass us by around here, and every day as we go for our walks in the rain, shine, epic heat or brutal cold, we encounter so many other of these

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