ex-CCG

Coast Guard for 35yrs. Artist, woodworker, ship modeller, cyclist. Bushby Inlet ON and HFX NS. Semper Gumby.

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@nspowerinc I like how a whole neighbourhood without power shows on the map as ‘Fewer than 5’ customers.

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@abbydealer Back in my early days in Halifax we got big bags of wings for free. From Sobey’s no less. The wing craze hadn’t started here yet and they just threw them out. <sfx> old man reminisces and shakes fist ineffectually

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@CBCNS When COVID first hit, people asked for ‘quiet streets’ to give them somewhere to be active, given that parks were being closed. Montreal responded immediately. Our traffic department said they needed 6 months to study the idea. Translation: we don’t want to do it.

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@CBCNS We built our city for cars, not for people, and now we’re suffering the consequences. A huge investment in better transit, light rail from Bedford, and lots of bike lanes would help. But our council remains car-centric and ultimately nothing will change.

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@BikeMayorHfx My youngest started at uni Tuesday, lives on campus. His older brother goes to NSCC, travels by bus/ferry.

All my kids walked or biked to school from primary to grade 12. Unfortunately, our car-based infrastructure doesn’t make it safe for all kids to do that.

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@bunsenbernerbmd @brittlestar Move Joe Louis down to inedible.

Move Crunchie from D to B

Kinder Eggs are awful. V. low quality chocolate. D for the egg, but move it to C for the toy

WTF, is that lettuce on that donair? Automatic F! Come to Hali and have a real donair and put it in the GOAT row.

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@liskeard1 Lovely! We get orange lichen too, here in Georgian Bay and I love it!

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It was a beautiful spot, open to the southeast wind, got us cooled off nicely.

Then back home where the woods block the wind and the flag wasn’t even budging.

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94F I’m the house today, too hot, so Rizzo and I fired up the little boat and went out to an island to get a breeze and have a swim.

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@HalifaxReTales Sobeys consistently comes out as the most expensive.

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We headed out on the lake today to have a look at the wreck of a tug - the Minnehaha - that sank in 1895. Someone was a very good boy in the boat.

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@hfxtraffic Like the highway zipper merge, this is a complete mystery to the NS driver

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Last day of cottage maintenance. When this job is done I get two weeks to relax, then it’s back to Hali for me and Rizzo.

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@alangdon17 Actually, I go to a coffee shop with no drive-thru specifically because it has no drive-thru. Inside service is far better when 90% of the staff isn’t working that one window while ignoring the counter.

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@alangdon17 Rats. Now I’m going to have you in line in front of me instead of just walking up to the counter. The secret is out!

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@FrankReardon1 Bushby Inlet, ON

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@BikeMayorHfx Watch Not Just Bikes on YouTube. Ex-pat Canadian who has moved to the Netherlands and loves it so much he won’t move back. His videos show how to accommodate everyone. But yeah, we’re not the Netherlands, right? We don’t do that here. Always the same response, and no progress.

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@FrankReardon1 @Starlink I usually get 60-100. My uncle, about 5 miles from me, gets 10 - on a good day- with Xplornet.

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Rizzo and I leave Halifax each summer and we live at a family cottage in Ontario for 10 weeks. We’re in the 30,000 Islands part of Georgian Bay. This summer, we set a goal to visit 50 islands. We’re at 49 now. Here’s Rizzo, looking very majestic on No. 39

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I haven’t used this account in ages. Normally post from my business account these days. I might as well resurrect this. Here’s how things are going.