The Cottage story … a work in progress. The family cottage on beautiful Lake of the Woods was the brain child of my dad.
Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies
Just a fun loving guy who’s interested in technology, passionate about family, and a follower of Christ. The blog started a long time ago when we were family camping and I had an experience with one of my sons that made me realize how fast time is going by, hence the title, Tempus Fugit. I Read More ...
Hey! Welcome to the bigDadoo website. You’ve landed here for some mysterious reason only know to you but, thanks for dropping by. Most likely, perhaps, you were looking for my original blog? Well, you are there. If you were looking for my Journey blog, well that’s over here. If you are interested in some of Read More ...
In addition to this blog I have a presence on several other online services for some of my various interests. Photography. The bulk of my online photography is over on Flickr. For the family, there are a couple of special albums that are dedicated to the grandkids. Parker Easton Dane Clark Other album collections are Read More ...
Grinding a Rail After a Saturday morning seminar, and lunch with friends, we found our way down to The Forks to check out the activities on one of the warmer weekends so far this year. The main draw for me was the Snow Jam event, and any excuse to get the camera out is a Read More …
Put a bunch of young guys together with some high powered toys and what do you get?
I have SocialScope on my Blackberry and today they had a new release so of course in opted to install it. The first install failed but before I could look onto the issue they send me an email saying “we see you’ve had a problem, here is how to fix it”. Impressive.
Just to show my good old blog some love, I’ve installed a very nice new plugin called Wptouch. Now I didn’t opt for the Pro version (yet) the basic one is quite amazing. So, what does it do? well, it take your WordPress site and delivers it to mobile devices like the iPhone, iTouch, and Read More …
I seem to have been slacking off in my blogging over the last quite a while, especially on this site. While I really like WordPress apparently I’ve been a little unfaithful and I’m starting to get more involved with posterous over at http://garrystewart.posterous.com/ , it’s just so easy, and easy is good right?
With the wet weather and Plan B in effect we’re riding on the road in the park. The roadies went the distance just ask Scott, Daniel, Chris or Garry. Lots of climbing and wicked fast twisty decents. Very cold too. Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
We arrive at Magpie Campground and check out the trail a bit. It seems OK to ride so we gear up and get ready to go. Just as we’re leaving it starts to drizzle. About 3.6km into the ride its quite muddy on the trail and the drizzle is more like rain. With the memories Read More …
Well we’ve finished breakfast and we’re on the road to the MDH trail. Normally, we’d be in the dark but with Perkins not bring open all night we were delayed a couple of hours and can actually see where we’re going. Unfortunatly what we’re seeing is a light mist and solid overcast skies. Wet trails Read More …
In a few short hours I’ll be setting off on an overnight drive to Medora North Dakota and the Maah Daah Hey trail for two and a half days of fabulous mountain bike single track ridding. Not sure how many of the “boys” will be making the trip or exactly what sections of the 100 Read More …
Pumper TruckOriginally uploaded by Big Dadoo Just a little bit of excitement downtown today. Shorty before 5pm there was a fairly large fire in an apartment complex downtown. In fact this apartment fire was right behind the IBM building at 400 Ellice Ave. between it and Portage Place. As I walked over from the GWL Read More …