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These are my favourite cookies. Better than the best chocolate chip that I have made, easy.

I have an older Canon Powershot SX260HS (my archive link) that I think is the pinnacle of handy point-and- shoot cameras. It has GPS, enough pixels, a decent zoom range and can fit in a jacket pocket with ease.

However, my camera has been through things. I took it to …

A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just thought that the little …

We took a very short trip to Cape Breton to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday, on the day. It was a small outdoor barbeque and cake since I definitely don't want to be the one to give her covid and die. My parents took her to my cousins for a …

We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure.

Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the water.

Sunday I wanted to …

The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home. Nothing interesting, a couple loads of laundry and tidying up to get ready to get back to work tomorrow.

As I have been updating or down-dating, the theme …

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard.

There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.

I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do.

1. Create a folder for the templates. I put …

This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but with all the stops …

When I saw this, I knew that I had to re-fresh the wasp trap with some fresh mix.