13-2-26

It's amazing having a kitchen again.

13-2-25

Damned rat set of the mouse trap and laughed so not it's time for the big guns.

13-2-24

Snow drops blooming. It's true.

13-2-23

I haven't seen my friend Ami in about a year. Catching up was facilitated by taking photos with Ilford black and white disposable cameras, Art Spiegelman at the Vancouver Art Gallery, paddles of beer at the Alibi Room, and pork scratchings at the Bitter Tasting Room. What a lovely way to spend a sunny Saturday in Vancouver.

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Good knives are a delight. That wee one second from the right is the latest addition and was wonderful the other night when I used it to skin a couple of pears for a delightful desert of poached saffron pears with homemade ice cream.

13-2-17

Sophie goes to ballet class.

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Valentine's Day. I took this photo this morning around 9am. Didn't take a single photo after. My work was done.

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I did something tonight that I haven't done in years. I rebuilt a pair of Campagnolo brakes. I took every last little spring, washer, and set screw out of them, dismantled the brake shoes, cleaned, greased, and lubed each bolt, washer, adjuster, and installed some new brake pads. I really miss working on bikes some days. They are pretty magical machines.

The rest of the story...

I take a photograph every day. To get that photograph I usually take a few photographs. Sometimes, if there's a hard choice to be made, I'll put up more than one photo. Other times the hard choices get buried on a hard drive somewhere. Last November I had a computer die. Since then I've had a few extra photographs that didn't make the daily cut. Like a blooper real or an out takes extra, here are some that didn't make the cut since the hard drive death. Enjoy. Or not.

13-2-11

First thing cooked in my new kitchen, blueberry pancakes with the help of my favourite prep cook, Miss Sophie. Best. Pancakes. Ever.

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13-2-9

There really is only one way to test a fridge. Tomorrow I'll be testing the stove with pancakes.

13-2-8

Cloudsplitter playing at the China Cloud on Main St.