My Way of Living [03/13/17] 

  • The Ultimate Battle Within : Blood, Guts, and the Bataan Death March 160k Ultramarathon Experience

    When my body gives out and my head tells me to quit, my heart compels me to struggle on. At some point, however, my head and my heart get in 'cahoots' with each other. They both demand I stop. That is when my spirit soars and their protestations are of no avail. I am propelled by a force unseen, drawn to a potential I have yet to …

  • Hi, I’m your new neighbour, um have some cat food

    Cat’s are not like dogs, in fact they are so much like well… cats. At least you can stand there and call a dog back, and have some hope of it responding. It won’t be interested in returning but at least it will acknowledge that you called it before loping off into the neighbours yard. We should have known something was up in the B…

  • Macro lens lessons

    What I have learned from my new 100 mm macro lens. That I really need a heavy duty tripod just like the experts say, after all that is why they are the experts. And the sight of my camera falling forward due to the weight of the lens is just not nice. That I need to do a lot more arm curls, like Gar says, after all he is the work …

  • March madness, it’s snowed my fault

    There is snow waythat I had anything to do with this huge dump we got yesterday… covering the entire Okanagan area in powder. Thick, white Greek yogurt snow flakes that unexpectedly started in the middle of the night and continued on through most of the day. Sure, I cut back the dead stalks of the perennials, and sure we raked the…