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Sleeping Dog Lies
December 2 Sparkle has cabin fever. The poor dog has just about enough fur to protect her from a cool summer breeze, and so in the deepest, coldest days of winter –as we’ve been experiencing here for...
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Winterized Vulk
December 5 I wanted to do some photography with the snow and some toys and messing around with the light. So I dragged a variety of LEGO bits out into the backyard, toque pulled down around my ears to...
View ArticleSnow-More
A week after the epic snow, the trails are clear, the temps are back up (mostly) and I squeezed in ten klicks this morning before lunch. #feelingWinter
View ArticleIcy Run
A rare opportunity for a 4 klick run on a Monday night… but man, was it ever icy out there!
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Dog Cold
December 19 I had the day off. It was a Friday. That happens. By mid-afternoon the dog was pining for some attention because in opinions other than hers, the day had been relatively productive. After...
View ArticleWhat do you have that you cannot live without for winter?
I wouldn’t even think of driving in the winter anymore without my winter tires. Though, I may need replacements soon.
View ArticleHere Comes the Wind Chill
It’s another freaking cold day out there. Guess I’m running on the indoor track this morning. -38C? Are you kidding me? It was above zero two days ago!
View ArticleWhy are we still (mostly) terrible at predicting the weather?
topic 00033 a mash-up of mechanisms & nature On the second day of February each year a vast cultural mechanism spins into gear as humanity pauses for a few minutes to celebrate the meteorological...
View ArticleDemotivating
I will admit that all this snow makes the prospect of a 20k run on Sunday a LOT daunting. #demotivation
View ArticleBring On Summer
As April once again draws to a close and May rolls in, we turn our attentions to the brevity of summer in this all-too-often winter-scaped city. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please...
View ArticleSnow in May
Despite a month of awesome weather, including sunshine, flowers and barbecues in the backyard, mother nature reminded us that we live in one of the most northern cities in the world and dumped a good...
View ArticleWorking At : Nurturing Life
June continues! And onward we push through those thirty posts that I’ve been writing every year this month. For the fifth year in a row I’m back to a month of daily blogging: each day a new post on a...
View ArticleWhat do you have that you cannot live without for summer?
I’ve been wearing my (newish) Tilley hat in the hot sun. If this weather keeps up, it will keep my brain from baking too much this summer.
View ArticleFirst Highland Competition
Mine, hers… not her mother’s. We sat out in the hot sun so that Claire could earn her participation checkmark on her first ever Highland Dance competition this morning. It was 32C and she was wearing...
View ArticleRain on Race Day?
…and of course it’s raining. Here I was worried about it being too hot for the race!
View ArticleHeat + Me = Runless
The heat and I don’t get along. I was feeling a little guilty: the weather this week has been a little too hot (for me) to run. I don’t do below minus thirty and I don’t do over plus thirty on the...
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