Not just a great song/album by Marvin Gaye (brother, brother, brother…), but a partial explanation of why it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been busy. (No, really. Sometimes I say that, but this time I actually mean it.) You see, even though the bay is still frozen, my life has been once […]
More ›Last week I finished up an eight-week weather course through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron. It laid down the basics of ‘why weather happens’ and then delved into the specifics of pressure systems, the reading and interpretation of surface analysis charts, and – most importantly to sailors – how to interpret and then forecast weather […]
More ›I like winter. I really, really do – even when temperatures are sustaining -30 Celsius for weeks at a time (which happens in January every year); even when the furnace ignitor breaks at midnight (which happened Sunday night); even when it’s too cold for even the kids to want to go outside… I like winter. It […]
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