December 28 2013 Aged

Today we took a trip to visit some more family for the Christmas season. Since things have been such a whirlwind I haven’t had a normal Christmas, which I like actually. I have found it is the abnormal ones that are the most memorable. Since I spent most of the month giving stuff away I didn’t really want anything, but I did get this as a present, a 21 year old bottle of Scotch.. which is pretty damn sweet in itself and makes a cool picture too!

December 22 2013 Drying out to No Avail

This picture has an odd story attached to it.. So it seems I am still rather restless when I sleep, and when I was sleeping the first night we arrived at Mt St Anne I had a glass of water next to my bed, but also my phone charging too.. At some point in the night I knocked the glass of water over and soaked my phone, it sat in the pool of water for the entire rest of the night. I managed to get a cup of rice from the restaurant downstairs but sadly it seems as though the phone is not salvageable, the internal components are dried out but it just seems like the charging port was just so very messed up.

November 26 2013 Candy Guilt

I love clementine season, though I always forget it is coming. I suppose it is one of the awesome things about the coming of winter, as I seem to be able to eat them like candy.  I try not to keep candy in the apartment because if I have it, I will eat all of it.. I do the same with clementines though with the added benefit that I don’t feel bad about eating a ton of them all in one go. I don’t have the candied guilt if you will.

November 21 2013 That Tinny Feeling

I remember when I first moved into this apartment, the drawers were too small for any utensil tray that I could find. It really annoyed me to have root around in a pile of cutlery but then I remembered about a bamboo tray at one store that was rather big. I remember standing there looking at it wondering if I could saw it to the the size I needed. A salesperson came over and asked me if I needed help and I absent mindedly told her about my plan to saw the bamboo tray to fit. It amused me somewhat because she was taken aback by that thought and exclaimed “Oh no, you can’t do that!”. I think I looked at her rather strangely and said “Umm, Why can’t I?” which seemed to baffle her more. It was an interesting exchange and in the end I did saw it to size and it worked exceedingly well.

November 19 2013 Sweet Jane’s Candy

There are days that are not good days. Everything that can go wrong does and well in those times I am glad there is a candy store near my work. It is called Sweet Jane’s and is a rather interesting little store. Sells the most unusual items but also some really good candy. Definitely hits the spot after a hard day.

November 12 2013 Honey drops

Probably my favorite thing to put on toast in the morning is honey. I always try to buy the local honey from the market here in Halifax just because I find the taste to be excellent. It is often so hard to believe that I am eating something that a multitude of bee’s have previously digested.. though in many ways I also find that to be incredibly cool.

November 7 2013 Chalk Hills

 

Eggs are awesome, I try to have some every morning for breakfast. Every time I do I think about how this seemingly simple structure is what allowed our distant ancestors to fully break it’s ties with the aquatic environment and start colonizing the land. To think this little structure is as old as the hills (in many cases much older), which makes it a wonderful thing to contemplate.

August 13 2013 Berry Hot Blast

I used to have a bit of an addiction to Coke a Cola, but over the last two years I have managed to leave that behind me. Though I have found that I needed a substitute, this ended up being tea and/or Apple cider. Rather unfortunately both are a lot more expensive than any pop but I suppose my body will thank me later.

July 20 2013 Caffeine does not affect me

Caffeine for some reason has never really affected me. People always say how they need a cup of coffee in the morning in order to wake up, but I have always found that hard to understand. I was never a big tea or coffee drinker before but I used to drink a heck of a lot of coke. So much so that I occasionally wondered how my teeth hadn’t dissolved. I have since given it up but where I once compulsively reached for a coke, I now fill my teacup.. Thus I still drink a lot of caffeine but at least the mass amounts of sugar is gone.

June 4 2013 Spring Bunches

Spring is an awesome time of year, everything that sat dormant in the winter comes to life. Unlike most people I look forward to the insects emerging, I find them fascinating and always love searching for new ones. I know most people consider them a nuisance but the fact is without them we and basically all of our land based ecosystems would be doomed. What most people look forward to are the blooming of the flowers and in this case the rising of the fiddle heads and I have to admit they are very tasty and look pretty damn cool too.