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		<title>weekender, four</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being self-employed as I am, the holidays of my family tend to erupt into a kind of blur of confusion that leave me a bit discombobulated. The Kid just finished her reading week break, and we capped it off with a trip to the mountains, having left last Thursday and rolled back home on Sunday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I missed a weekend update last week, but mostly because it would have been more of a six day vacation update that spanned a weekend, and that whole trip was a bit of a blur of driving and eating and kayaking and by the time I sat down at a keyboard again it was nearly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>weekend wrap, ten</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent this past weekend either prone on the couch entering a vegetative state whilst playing video games, or scouting out the north side of the city for various barely-connected reasons. The weather was hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not so hot to be an excuse, and the smattering of rain here and there [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Suburban Ski Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A sunny Sunday afternoon in January was the perfect day to go check out a few kilometers of trails through a local green (winter white) space in the Edmonton suburbs.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Snakes, Ditches, Mud, and Ticks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each summer for the last few I&#8217;ve hosted a small adventure club for a group of my running friends. We call them Adventure Runs, though running occasionally turns out to be only a minor component of the adventure. So&#8230;. once again it is summer, and once again yesterday morning I posted our secret meetup location [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mystery of Big Island (Part Three)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly a year and a whole long winter of impassable trails through the river valley since I posted an update about the work being done to turn a small bit of land with a big local history into a small provincial park. The last time we thought about that effort on this site, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Travel: Fruits, Wines, and a Weekend Half</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two years ago this past weekend the world was a very different place. The world was different enough that we had no issues hopping into the car, driving for nearly ten hours straight, and wending our way across the prairies, over the rocky mountain passes, and into the verdant Okanagan Valley in nearby British Columbia. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Local Big (Part Two): Kielbasa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago as I was getting ready for my summer posting schedule, I wrote about the local &#8220;world&#8217;s biggest&#8221; attractions that are dotted all around the rural countryside near where we live. As it happens, we took the scenic route home from a weekend camping trip, driving for two an a half hours [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In merely one week I&#8217;m going to be packing up that little black truck in the background of this photo and driving north with a cargo of camping gear to spend some quality time in the Alberta wilderness. (No) thanks to the pandemic it&#8217;s been two years since I&#8217;ve slept in a tent, and coincidentally [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mystery of Big Island (Part Two)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost three months ago to this day, readers, I introduced you to a local puzzle that I was hoping to solve. Big Island, to catch you up, is a modest chunk of river valley wilderness with a backstory that both intrigued the explorer in me and piqued the curious pathfinder that lives in the uncaged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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