After Wednesday’s doctor appointment Peter dropped Jon off at school, which is a bit more of an expedition than with his previous school! So on the way back home Peter stopped to do errands, and for a treat at Crema Coffee, one of the best espresso joints in town, located in the Junction. (For non-Torontonians, …
Category Archive: Cool Stuff
Jan
28
Oct
22
Halloween Preparations 2011
In the last year’s grand tradition of giving folks an ongoing sneak peak, we’ll now start posting photos of Jon’s costume as it comes together. Rules of this contest are simple: no hitting below the belt, no gouging, no spitting, and the use of cutting implements over 24″ in length is frowned upon. If you already …
Aug
07
New Yawk
Jon’s away at camp again this year, and like the past two years we’ve taken off for a short holiday of our own. This time we stayed a bit closer to home (no leaping across the pond like last year) and enjoyed a few days — a very few days — in the Big Apple …
Apr
05
A Morel Story
Today’s story is by someone else for a change! We got a package in the mail from my brother Troy from the Yukon. Upon opening the box we discovered it was a huge bag of dried morel mushrooms! Yum! (Once I figure out different ways to cook them, anyway.) A seriously big bag o’ morels …
Mar
18
Frankenstein
The first “grown-up” theatre that I ever experienced* was a 1974 Vancouver Playhouse production of Frankenstein, starring Norman Browning and directed by Christopher Newton. (And the fact that I actually remembered those names points to how eye-opening an experience it was for me.) Fast-forward a lot of years, and I’ve just experienced another stage Frankenstein. …
Dec
24
Consternation on the Cookie Sheet Ninjabread Epic!
I don’t know what happened. We got a few new cookie cutters this year, and all of the sudden total conflict broke out on the baking sheet! The injured were, of course, humanely consumed.
Nov
02
2010 Halloween costume—with fish!
He was a grizzly bear in a river at spawning season! Jon asked to be a bear about 2½ weeks ago, and since then we’ve had to quickly design, sew and build the costume. We steered him away from being a polar bear (since the goat 5 years ago was kinda similar), so he decided …