In 2020, I wrote Part 1, about the benefits of internet and how high speed broadband internet has become necessary in today’s world of sharing videos, steaming TV shows, and instantaneous contact with everyone all over the world. Anyone in a first world city has nearly guaranteed access to fast internet via fiber lines or cell data, but the majority…

My time to make soap has slowed down over the years, but we still use it every single day so when I realized we had just over a month’s worth of soap left (3 bars!!), I shoved a bunch of other “required chores” aside for a couple of weekends and made it happen! It was good to get back to…

All of the productivity of a summer can seem to disappear in the blink of an eye. And we did have a mostly busy and productive summer, almost right up to the end (I think most of us consider summer over when school starts, even if it’ll be warm for a while yet). Our Rottweiler, Artemis, had to have emergency…

Thank you, to the visitor who pointed out our website wasn’t working. I’d received an email a couple days ago that our “super speedy” service had exceeded bandwidth and we’d be slowed down to normal speed (so I shrugged and didn’t worry about it) … what they actually meant was that the service was turned off for the rest of…

A dry spring came early and with it, periods of heat that have literally set Alberta ablaze. It’s not unheard of – in early May, 7 years ago, we saw Fort McMurray (Fort Mac) go up, and in May 2011, Slave Lake lost hundreds of homes and other structures to wildfire. However, the number of fires this year has given…

The longest night of the year is a day behind us but winter has just begun, and it came in with a bang! We’re seeing-40c (that’s also -40f, for those of you south of the border) with a -50c wind chill for multiple days, and it is making everything unhappy. My car gave up trying yesterday, even plugged in and…