Yesterday at the office I went all-out and put together a salad bar as part of a charity lunch fundraiser for the Ottawa Community Gardening Network. 3 kinds of lettuce, 22 fixings, 5 dressings, 4 pasta salads and over 25 hungry customers later I had raised over a hundred bucks.
Weirdly, a bunch of people made [...]
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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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Every month at bitHeads someone’s chosen to run the ‘Charity of the Month’ – and my straw got drawn again unexpectedly this summer. I found an awesome charity doing local community development work. The Somerset West Community Health Centre were raising funds to turn a dingy unsafe lot into a community-friendly playground, and well… here [...]
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Today was my team’s first Dragonboat racing practice! We did pretty well for our first go! I’m super psyched to be participating in such a neat event. The next couple of weeks I’m going to be working to improve my flexibility and rowing muscles so we can power past all the other teams on race [...]