Back in November I read a great book written by a local friend Laura Churchill Duke called Two Crows Sorrow. It’s a creative nonfiction about a murder which took place in a local community in 1904. Before reading the book I had not heard of the story, but am glad I do now. The storyContinue reading “Different type of book tour”
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Biking the Harvest Moon Trail
Since I started trying to get back into biking a few years back I had thought it would be cool to bike the whole Harvest Moon trail. Its an old railbed that’s been converted to a trail going between Grand Pre and Annapolis Royal here in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. It’s 110 kmContinue reading “Biking the Harvest Moon Trail”
Hidden Valley
This is a trail we’ve done before, but it’s been a few years, so we went out again today with my Sister and her family. It’s right by their house as well. The walk starts by going under the highway which is neat and then some easy trail for most of the walk. It isn’tContinue reading “Hidden Valley”
Crystal Falls
One of the things I’m really enjoying from my Sabbatical is getting to visit places close to home that I have never been to, or haven’t really explore. Last week we went on a hike to Crystal Falls which is only about 30 minutes from us but we’ve never been. The hike was pretty easyContinue reading “Crystal Falls”
Baxters Harbour
We went to check out Baxters Harbour today. It has been a long time since I’d been there and most of the family hadn’t been there before. It’s beautiful and really cool with the waterfall and the rock formations. Things can change quite a bit depending on the tide but being here at low tideContinue reading “Baxters Harbour”
Boxwood Project
One of the projects that I had on my todo list for my sabbatical was to fix up the line of boxwoods we added at the back of our property line. We started some aspects of it earlier this spring, but I was able to complete it today. Shortly after we moved in my MotherContinue reading “Boxwood Project”
Upcoming Sabbatical
One of the amazing perks that is offered by Automattic is after 5 years of work you can take a three month paid sabbatical from work. This still blows my mind really. It also blows my mind that I’ve been working here for 5 years already. This is the longest I’ve ever worked anywhere inContinue reading “Upcoming Sabbatical”
New Mini Basketball Hoop
With Alex moving out we’ve helped out with some of the furnishings for the house. One of the things was a smaller 32″ TV. When we built the house we had to inset outlets added to the walls where we intended to mount TVs. One in the then play room, and one in the thenContinue reading “New Mini Basketball Hoop”
Alex’s and Ezra’s Home
On October 29th I became a Grandfather! My oldest Alex gave birth to a beautiful boy Ezra. When I first found out the news that our family was going to be growing it took me a while to come around as I know first hand how hard it is to be a young parent. SelfishlyContinue reading “Alex’s and Ezra’s Home”
Fitness update
Back near the beginning of August I wrote about my fitness and plans to get back into a good routine and health. Today I hit a couple milestones so I thought I would give a quick update. My main goals were to keep my physical activities varied and not only doing one thing. For bothContinue reading “Fitness update”
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