You know what bugs the heck out of me? Reporters who use the word "surreal". It is one of the most used and least descriptive words on cable and network news. Wolf Blitzer: "So, Fred, it really does look a like a surreal scene there in Cairo. […]
Read more →This morning around 9:00 I look out the upstairs window of our cabin at Baisley Lodges and do a double-take. Floating down the Madawaska River is a piece of ice roughly the size of a football field. For a second I can’t figure out whether the cabin […]
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There are some sentences that you never think you’ll hear yourself utter e.g., “I think that we’ve seen the last of the sex scandals involving members of congress” or “It wouldn’t surprise me if Hosni Mubarak fell victim to a Facebook-induced revolution”. I uttered another one myself […]
Read more →Since arriving in Canada two weeks ago, we have made three forays back across the U.S. border. All have occurred at Madawaska, Maine. One has been uneventful. On that occasion, we ran into a young, lady member of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency who asked […]
Read more →Yesterday, at 11:00am, the Head Musher and the Powers Pack (plus Moley and Mannie) set out to run thirty miles for the first time. As you will recall, that is the Can-Am race-distance on the 5th of March. The weather was sketchy. The Canadian Weather Channel was […]
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Twenty below zero this morning. The coldest morning yet. It’s even colder in Celsius (-29). I think the two scales converge somewhere around -35 or -40. How can they start out and be thirty-two degrees apart and then end up at the same number as it gets […]
Read more →Our experience with U.S. Customs and Border Protection the other day has caused me to focus on the matter of international boundaries. Gino compounded the problem by giving me an issue of Canadian Geographic containing an article entitled Borderlines, Between Buddies. The article is about Stanstead, Quebec, […]
Read more →Every Siberian Husky owner has as story about the eating proclivities of the breed. In light of the fact that they are the closest domesticated animal to the wolf, it may not come as a surprise that their diet may be…well…somewhat varied, particularly if you don’t keep […]
Read more →No matter what they say, when the temperature is down around the area where Mobil Freezone turns into an ice-cube, there is nothing like a wood burning stove. You can keep all those modern heating systems where you turn a dial and warm air shoots out through […]
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Here are a couple of pictures that I took of the Head Musher and Chinook after the team completed a fourteen-mile run in the snow. Today’s training run will be 17 miles. Weather is clear and about 19 degrees – balmy. Later, The One-Man Pit Crew
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