Our first trip to Jasper was a whirlwind tour with a motel stay a couple of years ago. I think our wildlife sightings amounted to one elk on the roadside at dusk. This time we camped at the Whistlers campground, which is home to a herd of elk. In May and June the elk are [...]

One of the things I enjoy about living in Canada is that you get to learn the French-Canadian translations for everything. Food packages, governmental agency names, and all kinds of signage appear in both official languages: English and French. I love discovering vocabulary I never acquired in high school French (s’mores, for example, are called [...]

Just time for a brief note and some glimpses of our garden and first harvest. It was production week at my job, which means a couple of long days and not much time at home. I can’t believe I missed the entire Victoria fibre fest and knit-out! It was last weekend. A combination of poor [...]

I recently dipped my thrifting net at the Salvation Army and came up with some lovely drawing paper. Now, this stuff was Strathmore 100% recycled drawing paper before I repurposed it. So now I figure they must be, like, one THOUSAND percent recycled.

The cover stocks are not exactly recycled, but they are from [...]