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		<title>Fire Smoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been routinely waking up to the smell of campfire, and not in a good way. Last year I had this idea of creating a video series to accompany this site, and I actually produced a couple early episodes, where I would have a sit around a campfire &#8212; maybe in my backyard, maybe in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I drove to work this morning and where usually the sparkling towers of #yeg downtown greet me from across the valley, glass and concrete pillars of light twinkling through the morning twilight, today it was just ghostly silhouettes and hints of light pushing through the #fog and frozen moisture in the air.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Attack of the Freakish Foliage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 14:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As of next week or so, we&#8217;ll be celebrating the seventeenth anniversary of moving into our house, our neighbourhood, and this place we call home. Seventeen years is all at once a short blip and a really long time. It sometimes seems like we&#8217;ve both lived here forever and also just moved in. In reality [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stewards of the Trails</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While volunteering as a course marshal at a local trail race yesterday, I stood in the same spot in the woods for nearly three and a half hours. Much of that time was spent clapping and cheering and directing racers away from a detour where the path had naturally washed out near the river bank. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Mow, May&#8230;be</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 14:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was drizzling this morning as I stepped out to take the dog for her first stroll of the day, and for the first time in nearly six months I could tell that the lawn was starting to turn a familiar shade of green. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration, either. As recently as this past weekend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you asked me for my political position on where the world should be going, I&#8217;d tell you. After all, it&#8217;s never great to write these things down, particularly on a public website where you are trying to foster a positive, happy vibe without some means to avoid the wrath of the countless people who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About thirty six hours before I sat down to pen this post the city where I live got hit by a small ice storm. I mean, technically, the weather service called it &#8220;freezing rain&#8221; but after an hour of that particular meteorological event (whatever one chooses to call it) every outdoor surface had been covered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Friday Frights: Cast Iron Versus Magic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are countless great arguments to switch to cooking with cast iron, but a socio-political one was outlined recently by the HBO Comedy show, Last Week Tonight, as they profiled a report on the effects to both our health and the environment from the types of chemicals used to make other non-stick frying pans. You [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Brink</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I stood at the edge of a cliff, half way up a mountain, looking west across a smoky haze shrouding the setting sun as it cast an eerie pall upon the landscape. As the summer forecast creeps into higher and higher temperatures, the meteorologists are predicting that we&#8217;re entering another span [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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