A boil up at Quartz Video Cache on New Year’s Eve! Yesterday John, Katherine and I started what we hope will be a New Year’s Day/New Year’s Eve tradition, a hike and a boil-up with a geocache and a view. We have had woodsy boil-ups before (of course) and geocaches on New Year’s Eve (a…
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A good day to be born
At 2:06am, Pacific Time (that’s 6:36 in Newfoundland), a wee manling made his way into the world. Please welcome new arrival Connor* Jacob Bragg: Who is absolutely perfect in every possible way and is healthy (although somewhat unhappy about being removed from his cozy cocoon). He weighed in at 8lbs 11.6oz and he, Adam and Tamar are…
Introducing “Flat Katherine”
Meet Flat Katherine: Flat Katherine is a variant on “Flat Stanley (wikipedia link)”, which I first encountered as an idea during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The Flat Stanley Project is a literacy endeavour based on the books about Stanley Lambchop, a flattened child who can go virtually anywhere because of his two-dimensionality. During the Olympics,…
So nice I thought of framing it….
I built my first solo wall yesterday morning. I’ve built walls before with someone, but this is the first one I’ve built with a window in it and also the first one I’ve designed and built entirely on my own. I am a little in awe (okay, it’s more like Hero-Worship, really) of The Amazing…
Vancouver-ho! and Flutterby Progress
I did a lot of getting all the titchy, tiny, little pieces ready yesterday and so actually only assembled one butterfly. But the rest are now ready to go and it should be a fairly streamlined process. I also finished up a wee sweater (in this pattern). While I love the result, I have to…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 