Tag: Outdoors
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Heeere’s: Red Deer!
Today’s entry is the start of a series focused on the AB part of the blog. And the opinions of featured locations from the Dad herein. With that… Hey, it’s more than just Gasoline Alley! Even if that part hosts the country’s arguably nicest washroom. Located on the river that gave it its name, Red…
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Biking Season! (And Safety)
Spring finally arrived a couple weeks ago and the kids were psyched to get their bikes together. They’ve already tuned theirs up and have been riding all over. I was set to get mine ready to go for this weekend, but AB inevitably happened… (youtube) But rainy days pass. Eventually. What’s important is to proactively…
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May Long Plantings
If you’ve been in AB for any length of time, you know we get about 4, maybe 5 months of warm outdoor weather. Sometimes requiring a coat. If we’re lucky. We usually have to wait ’til May around the Victoria Day long weekend to get outside and get planting and sunning. But also if you’ve…
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This Day For Moms
What a coincidence! The second post on a dad blog is about moms and how we relate to them. Like my mom and her mom and her mom before that, I grew up around some strong, stubborn, get-things-done type of women, most of them moms. Much like a lot of Alberta (and let’s face it…