(From the unpublished recollections – ‘K444 – Growing Up In The Shadow of A Rusty Boat’) When you grow up so close to the sea that high tide
April 2026 in Carlington
If you live in this area you probably don’t need the stats to tell you April was a bit of a roller coaster month. One day the temperature
An Ocean of Silence
What if the ocean ran silent,no lapping waves slappingagainst encrusted logs,no humpback songechoing deep downbeyond the sunightin a place we have only seenon National Geographic? What if the
Bingy Peanut Popcorn Squares
If there are two things in this world I like they are peanut butter and popcorn. Give me a fresh jar of peanut butter and I am a
Geek Meets Chef
So I decided to convert my old Teeswater.ca sqldump into something(s) I could use on this blog. Now Teeswater.ca was my long defunct online newspaper back when I
Patch, Pitch or Paint?
A couple years back, at Xmas, my wife gifted me a VERY large set of coloured pencils – like 120 pencils! The pencils are lovely, smooth, no bits
The Knotty Life Continues
I haven’t been doing much in the way of bracelets lately. A case of life catching up mostly, and running out of paracord. I did manage to find
The Sublime List
Sublime (noun): supreme or outstanding. There is beauty all around us, and then there is the sublime, that touch more than beautiful that reaches deep inside you to
Trombones and Stinky Socks
Once a window widesheers fluttered in the breezelilted in flight by percussive lightnessflowing streamlike cross hardwood floorslike the footsteps of a wood nymph stealing awayawed by the majesty
Coming Soon
Let’s see… Now what’s missing? I have been playing with OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) lately, actually thinking of doing a podcast with OBS and Audacity – more to
I Heard Coyotes Sing
I heard coyotes sing the day you diedlong and mournful like my thoughtsof your friendship and your laughterof shared journeys in a tiny townand journeys in different times
I am curious
This will probably be a long post, if you are a TLDR; type person you can skip over to one of the Recipes (I highly recommend the Baked







