A long time ago – way back in my college days – one of the courses I took introduced me to Permaculture. A very brief description of Permaculture is that it seeks to design human settlements and continual agricultural systems that mimic the different ecological zones around the world. What works here in Northern Ontario wouldn’t [...]
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I buried Hudson today.
It was harder than I thought, and I expected it to be tough. He went quietly at the vet’s after a morning of being led around by a blanket under his belly so he could pee one last time on his domain.
I’m not as sad at the fact that he’s gone as [...]
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We’ve been down the river lots, but only in the winter by dogsled. Until last weekend, we had never tried to explore it in any other season. Almost a month and a half ago, I bought a canoe: it’s a nicely cared for, seldom used, fifteen-and-a-half foot long, fiberglass Abitibi. There was some spare time [...]
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