Like nomads, but with more stuff

Of course I had heard of Stampede before moving to Calgary. The rodeo thing, right? And when we moved here I heard a bit more about the p...

  Before we had ever arrived in Calgary we had heard about the Gopher Hole Museum and it was on our bucket list. Then COVID hit and we didn...

  This has been an unusual year. The snow isn't melting as fast as usual, many hiking trails and campgrounds that would normally be open...

I am trying the 1000 hours outside challenge this year. Given the way the first part of the year has gone, I think I will be happy to reach ...

 ... a few days late.  This year was a pretty good one. It started with chocolate chip waffles and Alex' card. The card included a secre...

 #29. I am thankful for our amazing landlord. We really won the lottery with him. #30. And I am thankful that he isn't selling the house...

Last night the aurora was so strong and so high we caught a shot of it from our back yard.  We live relatively close to the downtown area, s...

  As said before, the family vetoes hikes with an incline. So, a little nervous about the possibility of bears, I clutched by bear spray tig...

 One of the birthday coupons the kids got last year was dessert for dinner.  Zoltan used his on something relatively mundane. Alex, on the o...

 One major silver lining of COVID is the development of local Buy Nothing groups. Through ours, I have rid our house of outgrown kids' c...

Wild ice is the term used for ice skating on a pond, lake or other natural body of (frozen) water. Technically we have been on wild ice befo...

When we lived in St Petersburg, we took an Arctic vacation in Lapland to cross off the one item on Terry's bucket list. We saw an aurora...

A phenomenon we had never even heard of before our move is the magic that is Canadian Tire. They do in fact sell tires (I wasn't entire...

This was definitely a birthday for the books. The mantra of the day for the kids was "Kind, loving, agreeable" - meaning if their...

We got a decent snowfall overnight and the kids played outside most of the day. Using the snow they shoveled from the walkway as well as al...

We had a somewhat longer driving day to get to the North Dakota hotel we had chosen along the route ... chosen because of the water slid...

Terry was here for the kids' winter holiday (which is still ongoing, entering its third week, dear Lord will we survive this much toget...

From Saxon Switzerland, we headed into Poland. Although we stopped at Boleslawic for the night and a bit of pottery shopping in the morning...

On Day 3 of the Epic Road Trip we left Pilsen for Saxon Switzerland National Park, which is not in Saxony nor in Switzerland, but instead i...

July 27 saw the longest lunar eclipse in a hundred years. Although I hear the US wasn't able to see it, it was supposed to be well visi...