June 21, 2021 Adventure, Baby! The Grandfather Tree I’m currently recovering from our Father’s Day weekend camping trip, which I will be posting about soon. In the mean time I wanted to…
May 24, 2021 Adventure, Baby! Fullerton Loop Day Hike We decided against camping for the May long weekend, but we still wanted to get outside and take advantage of the great forecast for…
October 11, 2015 Backpacking With Children: A Week On A Remote Island All through the spring we worked on getting the kiddos ready for our big (secret) backpacking trip of the year: a week on Flores…
December 29, 2013 2013: A Year In Review The new year is just a couple of days away, which is cause for mulling over the year that has just passed, and evaluating…
November 3, 2013 Mike Harvests His First Deer: What To Do With All This Meat? After our deer was gutted, skinned, and allowed to relax overnight in a bath of salted ice water, it was time to do something…
November 1, 2013 Mike Harvests His First Deer: Whitetail Hunting In The Alberta Foothills ** NOTE ** This post contains graphic photos of a deer being gutted, skinned, and processed. It all started with a Remington .308 and some…
September 13, 2013 Bringing In The Garden Harvest I spent a great deal of time late last week harvesting, washing, and finding homes for the considerable volume of vegetables we grew over…
January 16, 2013 Ice Fishing On Buck Lake Over the past month or so we’ve made a couple of trips out to Buck Lake to visit my parents and do a little…