As I was eating my strawberries this morning I saw what I thought was a new red dome on a building down the street – and then realized it was moving. Ponderously, the CTV balloon drifted out along the river, floating along at what looked like ladder-height most of the way. I wonder if the [...]

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Out by the river last night Natasha saw a bird with a red spot on it’s wing and asked me what it was. Being an expert ornithologist, I had no idea, so I stalled and told her it was a Cardinal. Except it was clearly not a Cardinal, it was a Red-Winged Blackbird. So she punched [...]

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Deciding we were made of tougher stuff than most, Natasha and I opted to test our winter survival skills by walking around Andrew Haydon Park knee-deep in the snow. Apart from one guy and his dog, it was a pretty desolate place. Any paths that may have been broken in the snow had long since [...]

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