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Pumpkin Gingerbread
Oh wow. Totally ignore those pumpkin bars I wrote about a few days ago. I mean, they are OK…. but this, this is amazing. Pumpkin Gingerbread. It’s a quickbread loaf and it is totally scrumptious. You don’t even need butter on it, at least not when it is freshly cooled. So if you have a can of pumpkin in the…
Read more »Please don’t take away our tropical paradise….
Two nights ago the Vancouver Park Board voted to close the Bloedel Conservatory in the Queen Elizabeth Park. It makes me sad for a number of reasons. It’s not a fantastic conservatory compared to some in the world, but it is a tropical paradise that one can escape to in the depths of a rainy Vancouver winter. It’s warm, and…
Read more »Time Machine Interference
I’ve been having a little problem with our PVR system. We have an Elgato EyeTV that records television shows to the computer hard drive. From there, it is exported to iTunes, and finally sent to the Apple TV in the living room via WiFi. It all works seamlessly… except for one small detail. Every so often, in shows that are…
Read more »Kindle Doesn’t Light My Fire.
I have always loved reading. When I was a kid I hid under the covers with a flashlight after I’d been sent off to bed for the night. Books were, and are, so many things. They are knowledge. They are an escape. They are inspirational. They are educational. They are entertaining. They enlighten us. They feed curiosity. There is something…
Read more »And Baby Makes Three!
No, no, no! Stop thinking that! I rounded out my happy little Mac family the other week. I started with a desktop, the MacPro. I loved it so much I didn’t want to leave it….so I bought a MacBook. And just the other week I finally broke down and bought an iPhone. It wasn’t an easy sell mind you. I…
Read more »Working Through the Pumpkin….
OK, three cans of pumpkin and three cans of evaporated milk from the depths of the cupboard. Plus a can of pumpkin pie filling (stupid mistake at the grocery store) and another tiny can of evaporated milk. And then there are those three cans of condensed milk to deal with too. One thing at a time though. First up is…
Read more »Delving into the Depths of the Cupboards
Do you ever look at your cupboards and realize that, for the most part, you live out of the first few inches? It gets scary to dig deeper because you never know what you will find. Long forgotten ingredients for something you thought you’d make, then forgot about, then lost the recipe for… I knew I had two big cans…
Read more »Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig.
Spent the night in a hotel that was reminiscent of Esther’s Inn. If you’re from PG, you’ll understand. If not…oh well. But I tried to see if my little cousin was at work…nope day off… and then drove to the house of a friend I haven’t seen in…oh…15+ years. Also not home. Left my number with his son and as…
Read more »Some Random Observations on Travel
You never get the car you reserved… often that works in your favour. When you rent a car in cold climate…. they never include an ice scraper. Work trips always seem either to take more time than you planned for in which case you are scrambling to finish…. or less time than you think and you are left stranded in…
Read more »Whoa…. the plane ride was worth it….
I just took a quick look at the Coquihala webcams… the flight wasn’t cheap, but not having to deal with these roads…. well, suffice to say that the flight was worth it. It’s actually hard to believe these pictures considering I took the third photo this afternoon between Vernon and Lumby!
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