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My slightly modified version of Old Fashioned Chocolate based on the recipe from Taste of Recipe.

These are my no-dairy rolled sugar cookie recipe.

My version of no-dairy gingerbread men.

Jess found this recipe years ago, and its still the best date square recipe that we have.

To make sure that everyone in my extended family can enjoy the ginger molasses delicious-ness, I made a version of ginger molasses cookies without butter.

Since there are some that don't eat dairy, I wanted to give these a try with coconut oil.

While I still use LaTeX and Sphinx for my report writing I still needed a replacement for Adobe InDesign.

This is a recipe that Jess first made, well it is a recipe that she used as the basis of it.

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses.

These are my favourite cookies.

We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect.

Halloween weekend is over, the weekend that everyone does their parties, and trunk-and-treating.

I have an older Canon Powershot SX260HS (my archive link) that I think is the pinnacle of handy point-and- shoot cameras.

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 was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing.

I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the camera.

Its full on Autumn here in Halifax.

We took a very short trip to Cape Breton to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday, on the day.

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

The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home.

There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend.

This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.

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.

This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things.

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

We went out in a friends boat this past weekend with no real goal.

I think its time to make a change to this site.

A Swing Song by William Allingham Swing, swing, Sing, sing, Here!

The bluejay has whiskers1 not really, its a bug

I haven't been active on this site for a while, and I'm not promising now that is going to change, but I took a picture of this pretty flower and I thought I would share.

Every year I think that we are going to be better, and every year I'm disappointed.

Four years on and I still think that no one really gets that our response to the pandemic is a root cause to a lot of the "there aren't enough workers" calls in so many industries, this is especially the case for professions that are women led, like teach…

I'm still, still, working on a workflow that doesn't include lightroom, but does include editing RAW files.

I have the finally figured out how to work out an updated workflow for this site.

Its not everyday that you see a hawk eating a starling in your backyard in the middle of the city.

I haven't been very active on here.

There are a lot of times that I will be reading a good novel and then it will get to a point in the plot that doesn't mix well with a lot of the things that are happening in my real life.

I like fastmail.

Autumn is upon us, or is that tomorrow, and the little birds are here to eat our natural feeders.

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And with this post, I'm back in the real world.

And with this post, I'm back in the real world.

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September is here, and it stinking hot, so hot the bees are bearding.

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