For breakfast this morning I had a still-warm Maple Bacon Doughnut in the parking lot of Suzi Q’s on Wellington. I’ve been hearing about this place all week from friends who are making doughnut pilgrimages out to the west end to try them, and it was totally worth the trip. They’ve got a bunch of [...]

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Natasha and I spent the morning attending Seedy Saturday in Britannia Park, a yearly gardening nerd event where people get together to swap seeds and stories in preparation for the upcoming gardening season. (It roughly corresponds to the start of indoor seeding time)
The Seedy Saturday event is much bigger here than in Manitoba! Although we [...]

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Despite some anxiety about running in the winter (I have like zero body fat and prefer winter activities where I can bundle up), I ended up participating with the gang in the Winterman relay marathon, running 2 out of 8 of the 5K legs. The weather ended up better than we could have hoped for, [...]

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Snapped a picture looking out over the experimental farm through this morning’s rolling fog. Those are trees and a little shed. No horizon line, though – just white meeting white.

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Yesterday was kindof a disaster for buses – we were getting sleet and freezing rain, so inevitably they were running really late and/or were too full to pick us up when they came. Finally a 176 stopped for a gang of us on Merivale, and we packed in like sardines, only two blocks later to [...]

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Oh man – I’m almost embarrassed. It took me about three seconds to realize where the sparkles were coming from when I left work this evening.

It was my BREATH. It’s not below 0 degrees yet outside, but it was cold enough that my warm breath was barely visible. When I held [...]

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When I left the office last night I thought I’d grab an image or two of the empty parking lot for a little experiment I wanted to do (it’s easy to match lighting when there’s not much lighting around!) but left the flash on for the first shot, lighting up these mysterious sparkles in the [...]

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On Saturday I participated in my first organized running event in over a decade, and it went really well! I ran 8 kilometers in 42 minutes 15 seconds, almost three minutes faster than my goal time – I kindof blew my own mind. I was really nervous going into it thinking that I might be [...]

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I went downtown tonight with some flowers to drop off at the Danielle Nacu memorial on Queen and O’Connor. Someone thoughtfully put up a “Ghost Bike” and I wasn’t the first to get there.

This one struck close to home when I read about it. Danielle died Tuesday morning when she got “doored” by an illegally [...]

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So when my guests from out of town wonder aloud about the “Experimental” part of the Experimental Farm, I tell them about the SpiderGoats, a genetically engineered species of goat that produces spider silk protein in it’s milk that can be harvested to produce “BioSteel”. I had read somewhere that they were keeping them in [...]

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