Enjoying an adventure with the Newfs
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Is Long Branch becoming a city planning battleground?
Yesterday, what I consider to be a wrong-headed one page leaflet was dropped into my mailbox and in the mailboxes of my neighbours, criticizing something called the Urban Design Guidelines Template. What is the Urban Design Guidelines Template? City Planning has initiated a study for… Read More
Miss Sharon Jones
Looking forward to seeing this documentary. We were at the recent Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show in Toronto. She is a force of nature!
Grilled fish – The Comfort Food Diner
There was some very good looking sea bream at our local fish place today, so for dinner I grilled up two of them along with some broccoli spears. Yum. I use a charcoal bbq (Big Green Egg) with a cast iron grill. For fish, brush… Read More
One Scotch One Bourbon, One Beer
Here are Donny Broussard and the Louisiana Stars…. Many visitors to this blog might be more familiar with a version that goes like this… Ry Cooder did a wonderful take-off on the tune as part of his My Name is Buddy recording.. How about Brushy… Read More
Lunch at the Comfort Food Diner
Left over bbq chicken Left over homemade mac ‘n cheese Fried up, served in a bowl with hot sauce. Lemonade. Perfect
Our Kind of Traitor
We watched Our Kind of Traitor yesterday at our local Cineplex. It’s about a couple who are drawn into some international intrigue – a Russian money launderer seeking protection from the British secret service in exchange for names and account numbers which highlight the involvement… Read More
Little Burnt Potato
Here’s another fiddle tune, this one from Western Canada. It’s Patti Kusturok, one of the best fiddlers in the country. Here she is with some friends, including Calvin Vollrath, another of our best fiddlers, playing Little Burnt Potato as part of her 365 Days of… Read More
Happy Canada Day
For my Canadian friends a question….what did you do this Canada Day? We took a drive to our fave emporium of the unexpected, Nice Old Stuff, in Jarvis Ontario, and came back with a carload of imagination. This garden gate had a flat top…until today.… Read More
The fishin’ is always good…
With a break in the hot weather and the promise of a cloudy day, I felt compelled to load my fly rod and waders into the car this morning and go find a trout stream. It was a lovely day to be out, but then… Read More
27th Street 