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 ...
Not exactly a New Years resolution, but this year I’m planning on being in good riding shape when spring rolls around which means some sort of winter training program. So, I’ve got the bike on the trainer, complete with a special rear training tire, and purchased my first ever cycle training DVD. A friend at Read More …
My cycling club, FOG, is offering a very nice looking merino wool trainer (Australian merino wool), think wool warm-up jacket. The email notification included a picture and it has the words “FOG Manitoba” across the front and then, is smaller script underneath “Vanno Velocissime”. I was curious, so a little Googling was in order. It Read More …
I like the way the new roll up garage door didn’t have to try and push the snow out of the way to open up like the old door did. Shoveling was a good workout. More snow please!
This took a full re-image of my hard drive to get rid of. Lots of fun locating all the software you acquire and configure. Since I’ve had to do this a couple of time now I’m developing a cheat-sheet document to help the process along. That and Norton Ghost doing very regular backups.
The making of an Icelandic Tradition Back on December 8th we re-vitalized an Icelandic tradition that has been in our family for as long as I can remember. My Ama made it, then my Mom, made it and somewhere along the line I started making it. For a few years we sort of dropped the Read More …
Other hilarious images over here.
With -15 and snow this morning it looks like FOG cycling is done for the year. We saw this load of bikes in Yellowstone earlier in the year. Don’t let the sunshine fool you, it was June and +6 during the day with sub-zero over night.
Today’s FOG ride started out and a very balmy -3°C and virtually no wind. The flags on the Legion were just hanging straight down. As I pulled into the parking lot at 9:50am I was greeted by one rider, Dave. As I got my gear together and we chatted, we wondered where everbody was? The Read More …
I was looking through some drawers the other night and I came across some pictures from my Mom & Dad. Two little 3 x 3 booklets of black and white pictures from 1950s. Is these pictures I’m 3 and Gail would be 7, and were standing in front of the first cottage in what would Read More …