Like nomads, but with more stuff

 Zoltan complained about his throat feeling weird on Sunday. On Monday morning he had a bit of a fever, lots of sneezing, and congestion. Ab...

 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 ...

It was meant to be the first snowshoe of the season, but there wasn't enough snow and what was there was pretty packed down. Because we ...

 We've had snow on the ground for a solid week now. Alex's days of riding her bike to school are probably over until May (assuming k...

In every adventure we have had since arriving in Calgary, we've left the city and headed west - to the mountains, towards British Columb...

It turns out to have been a good thing that we had already told the kids we'd head out for our Canmore bike ride later in the morning, a...

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

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...

  On our last morning I woke earlier than anyone else and couldn't sleep. But it was of course in the 40s and that doesn't work for...

  The next morning was not as chilly as I'd expected, or perhaps I am getting used to nearly-freezing sleeping temps.  We had decided on...