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Gena's Peanut Butter Balls 13 Dec 2011 | 03:43 pm
For years up until she passed away a few years ago, my mom would send us a big container of Peanut Butter Balls at Christmas time, because they were always one of my favorite treats that she made. And...
Making Fermented Dill Pickles 27 Aug 2011 | 09:52 am
We did not make any of Dills last year, but are currently down to our very last bottle so I definitely had to this year! My oldest son is the biggest pickle eater in the house, and now that he is nine...
Microsoft Support Scam 24 Aug 2011 | 10:01 am
This is the second time in a week now that someone has tried to take me on this scam, so I thought I should write up something quick about it. It is a really simple one - you get a call on the phone f...
Samba Ottawa 18 Aug 2011 | 11:22 pm
Last night was the annual Samba Ottawa event at the park at the end of our street. Samba has its origins in Brazil, and of course Wikipedia can tell you far more about that than I can. My first experi...
My New Sauerkraut Setup 17 Aug 2011 | 04:54 am
Some minor changes in my setup - I wanted to go with smaller buckets but had a fair bit of difficulty finding something of the right diameter to hold the cabbage below the brine level - then it struck...
Sadly, there are 10s of thousands of similar stories of mortgage fraud 4 Aug 2011 | 01:33 am
Welcome to America. Where thousands of ruthless bastards like this got off scott free, leaving countless 10s of thousands more poor people in dire straights. Land of the free alright. Scott Free.
In Memory of my Father 23 Jul 2011 | 01:46 am
Leo F. McKay spent most of his working life fighting for the rights of other people - mainly the little guy. He passed away last night in his sleep, in his comfy chair at home. He was born in the late...
US Fed Gave Out 16 Trillion in Secret Loans 22 Jul 2011 | 09:09 am
Nice. 16 trillion in secret loans, according to this US senator. He says "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else." Why the US is...
Bytown Beanery - Our New Coffee Business 17 Mar 2011 | 05:24 am
I've been waiting for the right time to write about this here but there never seems to be one. One of the key reasons there has not been much activity on this site lately is that my wife and I have st...
When The Nightmare Comes.. 12 Mar 2011 | 09:37 am
My middle son started suffering badly from nightmares back in the Fall. I would awake to him screaming in his sleep, to him gently shaking me awake, or to him curled up at the foot of our bed — I shud...
