Since her adventures in British Columbia, Flat Katherine has taken a well-earned break. First she went into the real Katherine’s school and talked to several classes there (well, real Katherine did the talking. Flat Katherine just waved.) And then, just before Christmas, we decided to send Flat Katherine on another adventure. We popped her in…
Category: Household
In with the new….
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…
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…
Finding wings in a pot of glue
It’s funny how you can chug merrily along in life for years, doing things that are either just within or on the edges of you comfort zone and never realizing what you miss by jumping outside it. One of my parameters of comfort has always been breaking the house. I do not like even the…
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,…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 