Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
This is the Fireball sailboat my dad bought for me in 1970. Some of the early pictures of the start of my sailing adventures. That’s me in the green sweatshirt. The couple in the canoe are Gary & Donna Wilstrop, good friends and neighbours on Lake Brereton.
This Drill Press Belt Sander project caught my eye in a recent issue of Wordsmith magazine, a long time favourite magazine of mine that I recently re-subscribed to. It seemed like it would come in handy (some day 🙄) and I wanted a bit of a project to work on. I have a drill press Read More …
We’ll, not much of a year on Zwift but there was some late in the year rides. Zwift Strava YouTube
I have had a Fireball sailboat since 1970 and it has seen a lot of nautical miles over the years. However, it may have just seen the last sail. Our neighbour at the cottage on Brereton Lake got a Y Flyer sailboat one year and that was the beginning of my teenage sailing adventures. I Read More …
… your boat. Well not quite a boat but for the off-water season it’s an indoor rower, specifically a WATERROWER Club on loan from Mandy. With the iPad attached to the arm on the front of the rower there are a number of applications that can make indoor rowing a bit more interesting. My current Read More …
The most thoughtful and memorable gift my parents ever gave me was a set of three gloves. This gift was so thoughtful as each glove represented a sport that I was keenly interested in. These were gifts on my birthday when I was in my early twenties and I still have these gloves, almost. The Read More …
Where will you spend it? Today’s devotion also lead to reading about Arthur Stace, Mr. Eternity. I highly recommend giving it a read. And as things do on the web it lead to a look at Copperplate Script which lead to a calligraphy course which I might try.
I got some good riding in this year with FOG, Southern FROGs, Northern FROGs and the Kenora RPCC folks. However, heath issues put a bit of a crimp in the late season riding. Looking forward to some winter riding in 2023 and a full road bike season. My Strava stats for 2022.
So, I was at the Winnipeg library yesterday picking up a couple of books that I’d requested and while I was there I thought I’d pick up a couple of magazines for some casual reading. I picked up a copy of Popular Mechanics, a magazine I had a subscription to thanks to my grandparents for Read More …
Peaked on the trainer in March!?!