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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door.Raised in outport Newfoundland in a town of 65 people, I pursued a post secondary diploma in Information Technology right out of High School.
I’ve always been a geek at heart, but yet I love the rural life I grew up with. Fishing, hunting, camping and the great outdoors are still loves of mine, even if I don’t pursue them as often as I once did. Sports were always a big part of our lives, and I played many (badly) and loved them all.
Up, Down, Out, Over the road Damn you Sheila!
- Bare MountainAs you come down over the hill along by the cemetery in Apsey Brook, looking straight ahead and way way down, you’ll see a bare rock face off in the distance. I’m not sure if this has a real name, but I always called it Bare Mountain, and as a …
Time for the Tree!Christmas has changed a lot over the years, the result of changing times, commercialization, and different lifestyles I guess. Plus living in a larger center than before, and also some factor of selective memory as I get older too. One thing here in the city is the Christmas tree. We …- Fraggles? Aliens? Our 1978 VisitorsI’ve not heard mention of this in years, but back in the fall of 1978, there was a period of a month or so where everyone (but me, alas) was seeing a UFO over Random Island. Looking at reports on the net, the one sighting I see reported, (incidentally by …