Like nomads, but with more stuff

 Friday's adventure: maple syrup taffy All it takes is some boiled syrup (to 235-245F) and snow. Check and check. In one set of instruct...

 Planning my new year goals and one is to get out of my rut. Try new things again. Lockdown has really gotten me out of the habit, even thou...

 #21.  In a very generalistic, vague picture of reality, I'll explain that most of my days are spent trying to teach, coach and convince...

 #14. I am grateful for the garden.  As I blanch the last of this year's kale, I remember the well-loved line from Blueberries for Sal ...

 #10:  The kids. I am not at all the same person I was before they were born – mostly for the better. They challenge me and push my out of...

 #8: Today I am grateful for daylight savings time. I know that isn't popular, but I much prefer Alex biking to school in daylight than ...

What's not awesome? Returning home from vacation to find the freezer door wasn't properly shut and everything is (thankfully) cold ....

Our last day in Vancouver, the kids had their afternoon hour-playing-in-the-pool-because-they-can't-hide-in-the-room-all-day-like-mushro...

On Wednesday the day started the same. Because I knew in advance the kids weren't doing much in the afternoon, I didn't mind when a ...

[Disclaimer: Anything you think of to do in Vancouver, we probably didn't do it.  Terry was working, I was working, we didn't have a...

 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...

 There is not a large, thriving Jewish population in Calgary. That became abundantly clear last year during the frustrating Hunt for Hanukka...

 I made a saskatoon pie yesterday with berries we'd picked and frozen over the summer. We'd tried them fresh - tasted a few in the f...

 We've brought the herbs indoors and dug up every last vine and plant that had produced, or promised yet failed to produce, food. A few ...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, a much preferable holiday to celebrate than Columbus Day, although the coincidence of the dates is food for tho...

The day was absolutely not over yet! Due to our several stops, we managed to get to the hotel just a bit over check-in time, which meant we ...

That's British Columbia. See, the week before our vacation Terry was supposed to TDY to Vancouver. This of course means we were all supp...

More accurately, "failure" as it has only been one attempt. We decided to play around with dehydrating the starter just in case we...

Terry's favorite pie is rhubarb. Not rhubarb and strawberry - that's too sweet. His second favorite is apple and that is what he no...

We were lucky enough to get a spot in one of the two community gardens we applied to. Then, after we got that notification Terry found a fe...