Proud 'Berta Dad: Places. Weirdness. Wonder.

Tag: Outdoors

  • Biking Season! (And Safety)

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    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…

  • May Long Plantings

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    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…

  • This Day For Moms

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    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…