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war of the ants
I really do hate using my entymology powers for evil. Yet, I have been waging a war out my front door on an ant colony as they wreck havoc upon a beautiful and otherwise-thriving plum tree I’ve been trying to grow in my front yard. Let’s back up. We’ve been in our house for twenty
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Attack of the Freakish Foliage
As of next week or so, we’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’ve both lived here forever and also just moved in. In reality
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Fall Colours
During my exhausting trail half marathon this past weekend I may have tired myself out good and proper, but I managed to keep enough mental focus to nab some photos of my adventures through the autumn foliage. Of course when one is running an epic wilderness race carrying proper camera equipment is out of the
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Apple Harvest
The local radio (yes, I still listen to the radio) was discussing apples this afternoon. The public broadcaster hosts an afternoon general interest show where a pair or trio of hosts chatter about local news topics, update on weather and traffic, interview local businesses, and generally have a daily topic encouraging people to engage and
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Last Day of Summer
And just like that the leaves turned yellow, the air felt crisper, and another summer drifted into memory. In three short months we managed to squeeze in quite a lot of action, particularlly considering that the world was still fairly locked down with this pandemic. We visited the mountains for two weeks across two separate