How would you improve your community? Upgrade our existing North Bruce Peninsula (Lion’s Head & Tobermory) food banks. Give extra funding for Tobermory’s year-round community centre. The Meeting Place is on a shoestring budget. And I’d make damn sure The Bruce Mens Shed gets its own workshop. Men’s mental health is a priority for me. … Continue reading Food Security and pavilion update.
What principles define how you live? Am I making order from chaos? DEEP ECOLOGY. Am I content and self-aware? HEADSPACE. LIVING. Am I living with dignity? QUALITY OF MIND & LIFE. October 13, 2024 Images From Our Forest Garden. PN & TS assembled a sieve to process marginal topsoil. It’s time to plant those root-bound … Continue reading Core beliefs and Sunday farming update.
We’re still optimistic that a mural can be applied to that north wall. This array has 1 empty row for PV expansion. Rydall Construction has history with us. And you need to give them your business. Ask me about it! The buried cistern will supplement our SLOW refill well. Its final colour may complement the … Continue reading Friday, August 2/24 Evening Update
What are your daily habits? Heh, this sounds like a phishing exercise! Sooooo, what’s the name of your favourite pet? What’s yer mother’s maiden name? What’s the name of the first street… school teacher… brother/sister/moose from your childhood? For those security questions, I fire up my password manager and generate an incoherent character string. The … Continue reading 2 FELINE AUTHENTICATION (2FA)
Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Sustainable lifestyle can be a tricky weasel word (phrase) for me to define. If I look at it from a financial POV, am I living within my means. I have a guaranteed basic income. I’m not burning through money that I … Continue reading Money. Gasoline. Impact. Relationships. Felines. Food.
While we were slinging dog biscuits, the second coat of concrete-plaster is being added to the walls.
My project manager is keeping the site neat, however, it IS an active construction site. Gate closed? Call us before entering. Trespassers will be persecuted. (You’ve been warned).
A more accurate question should be, “ do I regret taking early retirement from the school board?”
Share one of the best gifts you've ever received. My very first full-tang camping knife set me on a path of cutlery collecting (thanks again, ZP & GP). Sharpening. And whittling… providing lot of collected wood chips for tinder. SNOW CLEARING AT OUR TRANSITION HOME Before After PN trying to keep up with TS!
https://blackdogbiscuits.ca/2024/02/17/dont-be-cheap/ My answer to today’s writing prompt (“how do I budget?”).
Bloganuary writing promptWhat is your favorite animal?View all responses TS made an amusing, and perceptive, comment about the crew that did the demolition on our condominium suite -- they have cats in their homes. That makes sense to us. Felines are downright little bastards that cause havoc and mayham in a home. One is never … Continue reading Cats, dogs… and whatever’s distantly related to them!
Homes in the bush, stepping away from full-time pedagogy.
**Must**...?! Let me explain. When the Georgian Bay is warm enough, I enjoy doning neoprene and hopping into Five Fathoms Marine Park. Now that I have more time, I can resume this passion using Diver's Den as my preferred charter. That, and go fishing. I'm enjoying my first night at my new home (while we … Continue reading If I **must** wear clothes, then it’s boots. Waterproof & insulated snowboots!
What is good about having a pet? When I’ve had enough of our house-panthers, I can scoop them up and toss them into a room. I do that to a human child, I get arrested. My niece & nephew are old enough to avoid this fate (when they eventually visit our farm). And companionship. The … Continue reading Companionship and portability!
Semi-retired. Busy!
Truth can be stranger than fiction, no?
The restaurant owner died from his injuries.
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