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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

A Thanksgiving Cruise...Part II

Time to meet the ship! She’s the Jubilee Queen, out of Toronto. Here she is: Like any good cruise ship, she sails the islands – in this case the Toronto Islands. You didn’t know Toronto has islands? You may be forgiven... Some people say it’s just one island anyway, its parts divided by channels and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Thanksgiving Cruise...Part I

On Thanksgiving we went on a cruise, as we have done before. We do a lot of cruising – and now, since I am currently without a vessel of my own and since my friends have all hauled out their boats, it’s my only chance to feel a heaving deck under my feet. The trip to the port of embarkation was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Naut’s Fabulous Gravlax – Especially for TAPS

In one of her recent posts TAPS was talking about food (always a pleasant topic), salmon in particular, and for some reason it made me think of this recipe. And I promised her I would post it, so here it is. A few introductory remarks: I call it ‘Naut’s’ because I have made it often, and in various... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

A visit with Wiley and Kabu...

I recently had to take a trip to Ottawa. But then I thought – hey, Ottawa is not too far from that other eastern Ontario metropolis – Pembroke! In fact, Ottawa might even be called a suburb of Pembroke! After all, Pembroke is the official Hockey Town of Canada, and what could be more important than... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A Meeting with an Inunnguaq...

What do you do when, on a beautiful, hot summer weekend you cannot ride your bicycle because it’s in the shop; you cannot wangle a spot on anyone’s sailboat because everybody is already out or not going out at all, using the excuse of a paucity of wind as a cover for his real preference, being... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Strictly a One-Night Stand...II

I hope you'll forgive me my obsession with this piece of vegetation, but a few days ago I had written about our cactus – and in writing, I had been wondering whether we would see a flower this year, since our summer has not been of the sort to induce a cactus to think of love. It’s been miserable –... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Strictly a One-Night Stand...

I have written about her before, our lovely cactus, over four feet tall, who in summer resides on our deck. She’s a Baja Organ Pipe Cactus, stenocereus stellatus, who has been with us for many years and has become a member of the family, which is why she’s not an ‘it’ but a ‘who’, and a rather... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Naut’s Fabulous Friday Night Scallops...

I feel guilty! I haven’t posted anything of consequence, no series on any of the many topics that interest me, not even a haiku. I haven’t even been able to keep up my practice of responding to each and every of your comments, something I had been doing since my arrival in Blogitville, and vowed I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

The Reason for My Defeat...Dedicated to Kabu...

It’s clear that Kabu has won the chipmunk contest, as she has pointed out before, on many occasions, and then some... I have been mulling over the reason for my defeat. Seeing that I had a chipmunk feeding out of my hand long before Kabu even knew there was such an animal, it should have been an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Of Horses and a ‘Crime Scene’...

Work, reading, eating, drinking, working out, living, and taking long bicycle rides to get back into shape are taking their toll on my blogging. I have also found it hard to keep up my usual practice of responding to comments, and I hope I am forgiven, I try to go on a long ride every other day, for... Sign in to see full entry.

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