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A Thanksgiving hike

11 octubre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life
We took Sophie for a hike on the Bruce Trail, Monday. Drove along Sixth Street up into the hills where the trail crosses over near the peak of the mountain, parked and walked into the woods for an hour. It never fails to amaze and delight me that within five or ten minutes' drive, we can be in the woods or the...

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Jupiter Creek solid-body baritone

06 octubre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, Personal reminisence
Haven't had a lot of time this past two weeks to practice music, because of the election, my new part-time job, and working for clients on Websites. But late last week I got my Jupiter Creek baritone in the mail. It's mostly been sitting around waiting for me, but I finally got to take a few photos, yesterday, for my upcoming review.

This...

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Wordstock, a literary festival

11 septiembre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life
I gave a brief reading at the 'celebrity" tent on Hurontario Street for the first Wordstock literary festival, today. Small audience, but I was told there were larger crowds earlier in the day. The lineup included a lot of incumbent politicians, so perhaps it was a political event for some, but for me it was more social.

Wordstock...

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Gunless, a Canadian western

07 septiembre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Book & film reviews
Last night we watched one of the most entertaining films I've seen in years: A Canadian western called Gunless, starring Paul Gross of Passchendale fame.

Gunless is the story of the stereotypical American gunfighter - The Montana Kid - who flees a group of vigilantes and ends up riding across the border into a small Canadian frontier village...

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Saw the ISS this morning

04 septiembre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Science
About 6:30 a.m., I was out on this chilly (12.9C) morning taking Sophie for her morning bio-break. I was admiring the way the morning sun hit the clouds when I noticed a flash of light in a break between them.

I was looking roughly E-SE and there it was: a bright dot against the clear blue of the sky. I watched it as it moved away, heading E-SE,...

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GBAR's Adopt-a-thon a success

30 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life, Animals
Dropped by the Georgian Bay Animal Rescue's August Adopt-a-thon, Saturday. While I don't have the totals yet, the event was very successful, and several cats were adopted. What we intended as a few minutes' visit stretched into an hour or more, once we entered the cat...

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Our growing culinary landscape

28 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life
I think the only thing I ever really missed about the city when I moved up here was the variety of food we had within walking distance of our house in Toronto. We could walk to Vietnamese, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Korean, Italian and Szechuan restaurants, all within 10-15 minutes of home. A little further, but still not very far, we had Thai,...

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Tags: dining, restaurants, food, Collingwood, eating, sushi 15 Comments


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Glass saddles and ukuleles, a test

17 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Music and ukuleles
Ever since I started playing the ukulele, I've been delving deeper into the science and mystery of acoustics. For the past two and a half years I've been trying to understand how and why a ukulele - or any stringed instrument - generates sound. What factors influence the sounds we hear, and who can changing one or more element change that...

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Tags: glass saddle, acoustics, baritone, ukulele 2 Comments


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The lime tree puzzle

15 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Science, Social values
When I crush a leaf from my lime tree, it smells deliciously of lime, like its fruits do. And its fruits, when it graces us with them, are richly aromatic and unmistakably lime-scented. When you cut into one, you can smell it across the room, and the scent from the oils will linger for hours on your fingers.

Yet today, with it in full bloom in...

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Tags: botany, lime, science, evolution, Citrus aurantifolia 0 Comments



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