Like nomads, but with more stuff

 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...

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...

Saturday we were up and out the door to a well-recommended hiking trail - Boom Lake. It was our longest hike as a family - over 10km. Terry ...

November and December being on different calendar pages, it didn't occur to me I was booking two weekends in a row when I looked at the ...

We dedicated Saturday of our Jasper long weekend to Moraine. Moraine Canyon is about 15 minutes outside Jasper, with Moraine Lake another 30...

It is (1) our second successful trip to Jasper and (2) our second attempt to visit Jasper in the winter. So for both of these reasons we sho...

 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...