Ne Obliviscaris

House-hunting is hard work

We’ve decided to move. Not far, just to the countryside around Kingston. Somewhere. I’ve had enough of the ‘burbs. We’ve been in our current abode for 9½ years and it’s served us very well. The problem is that it’s far too large. We chose it at the time because we needed a place that could [...]

Are you ready to be judged?

It’s coming. Judgement day. The End of Days. The end of the world. It starts a week from Saturday. The billboards say so: Somebody’s really serious about this. These billboards are all over North America. There are even 2 or 3 here in Kingston. Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio.com and the EBible Fellowship, has done [...]

The weekend that was

First, a comment: YAY! Spring’s here! Saturday was absolutely gorgeous. Mid-teens in Kingston and sunny all day. Greg and I delivered two hives to a customer near Perth and it was closer to 24 up there. It was glorious weather to be planning hive locations. The drive up, about 100km was uneventful, but coming home [...]

The fox is in charge and the chickens are terrified

I just read something incredibly disturbing and frightening in FastCompany. Word is that the USDA has started a two-year pilot project that will allow Monsanto and other purveyors of genetically modified “food” to literally police itself. No, I’m not kidding. As it stands, the USDA is responsible for assessing environmental impacts of new GMO crops. [...]

House hunting for fun and relaxation

HA! So, we got something of a look at the limestone place yesterday. The outside of it, anyway. Our agent had arranged a viewing for us for today, but called in the morning to cancel. It seems that the homeowner had called her agent to let him know that she was at the airport, going [...]

Goin’ up the country

I feel like a 1970′s back-to-the-lander, but that’s more or less what we’re planning to do this year: sell the bungalow in the suburbs and get outta town. First, some background: I grew up in Kingston. I’m a child of the city, but I have very deep country roots. My Mom is a farmer’s daughter [...]

I didn’t realize that I’m a bead sort of guy

A number of you know that I’m a Cub leader up here. This is actually my fifth year of molding young minds other that my kids’ and I’m still having a hoot. What the non-Scouters amongst you may not know is that I just finished the second level of Scouts leadership training: Wood Badge II. [...]

A swift kick in the culinaries

So, I was chatting about food issues with a new friend on the weekend. She’s a lacto-ovo vegetarian and while not a lot of what she said was new, it definitely served to remind me of a number of important things. What that’s resulted in is a renewed vigor in getting my family back on [...]

Food for thought

Ewwww h/t to Randall at xkcd

Politics schmolitics

We Canadians are in our fifth national election campaign in 9 years and the party leaders had their single English-language debate last night. French, the other official language of Canada, goes tonight. Does anybody really know what the issues are? I mean, the real issues. Not the ones that the politicians would like to have [...]