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Jul 17
Weekend in British Columbia
We usually visit Vancouver once a year. The city has many interesting attractions, not to mention great restaurants. This year we started our British Columbia trip in Pemberton, a village north of Whistler. Our neighbors suggested visiting Pemberton, as they’d been there the month before. We visited Whistler for a day our first year living …
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Jul 13
Mastering Metric
One problem that many folks have when they visit Canada or Europe is the metric system. My former students had difficulty as well. Back in the 1970’s, America was on track to convert to metric measurements; however, the proposal died an ignominious death under the Reagan administration. (See this Wikipedia article for details.) I worked …
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Jul 08
This is a Store?
Julian and I went shopping at University Village yesterday. Our first stop was the new Apple store. There was a perfectly serviceable store immediately to the east of the new structure, but Apple decided to up the ante by building even closer to the Microsoft store. At first glance, the new store looks more like …
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Jul 06
Can We Bake a Cherry Pie
Pies are not my forte. When I was a teaching assistant for a food science lab in grad school, we had one lab that I nicknamed the Salute to Crisco. Students made crusts with different fats (oil, butter, lard, and shortening), and then judged them on flakiness. The shortening crusts won hands down, courtesy of …
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Jun 30
Pure Smut
Every month the pornography hits our mailbox. In these libertine times, the publishers don’t bother with plain brown wrappers. They taunt us with saucy covers of voluptuous breasts, meaty legs, and strategically-placed coverage. Inside there’s even more to pique our desires: Cheeky peaches, plump balls, and tanned skin. It’s my monthly haul of food magazines. …
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Jun 30
Greek Poutine
Poutine is the provincial dish of Quebec. It consists of french fries doused with brown gravy and sprinkled with cheese curds (not grated cheese). It’s junk food kicked up a notch or two. Today we have invented a variation: Greek poutine. We were at the Greenwood Car Show today and got hungry. We dove into …
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Jun 25
Confused Plants
Our garden is going gangbusters. Even the ferns, sedums, and ajugas in the shade are running wild. One of the fuchsias may be an exception. I rotated the pot to give the other side some more light. One side looked a little peaked. Julian claimed that the plant was “confused”. He claimed that rotating the …
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Jun 20
The Damage is Done
The current administration has apparently reversed its stance on family separation at the Mexican border. While the news sounds good, the damage has already been done. Over 2000 children have already been separated from their parents. There is no plan to reunite these families in the near future. Tracking these children, especially the babies and …
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Jun 17
Common Threads
Q: What do the following eras have in common? Nazi Germany Argentina under the military dictatorship of the 1970’s The current administration A: Forced separation of parents and children. Throughout history, despots knew that breaking up families was a key strategy to vanquish dissidents or undesirables. The Nazis separated children and parents to send them …
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Jun 11
Food Deserts in Farm Country
A friend of mine liked a post on LinkedIn about a grocery store opening in his town northeast of Boston. This, and a trip to my hometown, got me thinking about food deserts and how they may be more prevalent in rural areas than in cities. What’s a food desert? It’s an urban neighborhood that’s …
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