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    Grey Monday Geese

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 23, 2021
    October 18, 2021. The weather has turned and the geese are flying south in greater numbers. This is a view outside my front door - that was about it for my outside time today as I've been setting up the tasks for the course and preparing presentations....
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    Winter Flowers

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 23, 2021
    October 17, 2021. These flowers in the front yard barely resemble flowers any more as fall weather sets in. I have been *incredibly* busy this week with my online course - most of my work is self-inflicted as I can't resit trying to add new features to...
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    Grey Sky and Condo

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 17, 2021
    October 16, 2021. Vis is a view from our seats at the RedBlack game out the west end zone. You can see the condo (which, if I ever have to live in a condo, is where I want to live), the threatening skies, and most importantly, the roof over the north s...
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    Cat ina 4D Box

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 16, 2021
    October 15, 2021. This is Charlemagne enjoying his time in a cardboard box. If you look closely you can see the little holes in the cardboard the cats have created while kneading. Two course videos today, including a live session, along with one about ...
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    Geese

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 16, 2021
    October 14, 2021. Geese in the sky, flying south for the winter. Today was a two-video day for the course, plus a bunch of other odds and ends. Working on this course is taking up a lot of my time - it's all worth while though. I truly think I'm saying...
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    The 6428

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 14, 2021
    October 13, 2021. Waiting at the tracks in Casselman, in the rain, at the end of my bike ride, for the train to go by. Very productive day today - I wrote a blog post, solved a number of technical problems, made a course video, and more. The only downs...
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    Mini Wheats

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 13, 2021
    October 12, 2021. This is a look into a box of Mini Wheats. I have a baggie full of these once a day, near the end of the day, mostly for the fibre. Today I was focused almost completely on my first major session of the course - I had one person in the...
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    Castor River

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 11, 2021
    October 11, 2021. I just stopped to take a photo of the Castor River along rte 650 when this family in a canoe came by. It was perfect timing on a perfect day when I went for an easy 47 km ride to Embrun to visit family for a bit this afternoon (the ha...
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    Geese

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    | 2021365, geese, Syndicated
    October 10, 2021
    October 9, 2021. On a leisurely 60 km ride to Maxville today I discovered the secret landing sport for geese! They're not on the river this year, they're all here! This is just after I startled then and just before the entire lake of them took off, cre...
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    Spider

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    | 2021365, canada, casselman, ontario, spider, Syndicated
    October 10, 2021
    October 8, 2021. This is a very healthy spider sheltered just outside the downstairs bathroom window. I liked the way just the centre strands of the web were lit up by the sun. Tough day today as I couldn't figure out why my presentations weren't displ...
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    St Albert from the Bridge

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 10, 2021
    October 7, 2021. This is a view of the flag over the francophone memorial at St. Albert as seen from the bridge over the Nation River. This was another quick 25 km right to keep my mind clear as I continue to work on the course, combining a set of 'Bui...
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    Fog

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 10, 2021
    October 6, 2021. Early this morning we had a think fog covering everything, one of the thickest I've seen in some time. I couldn't linger to enjoy it as I had an early morning meeting and then was back working on the course. It's really coming together...
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    Nation River

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    | 2021365, nationriver, Syndicated
    October 10, 2021
    October 5, 2021. This is the Nation River where township road 700 ends up against it. I was getting really tired and found a brisk 25 km bike ride to be the perfect remedy. The day started with a couple of meetings, the recording of a number of videos,...
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    The 915

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    | 2021365, Syndicated, train, via
    October 10, 2021
    October 4, 2021. Running way behind uploading these photos of the day. catching up. The reason is that today (Monday) was the start of my online course, which has swallowed most of my time as I whip a 2018 version of the MOOC database into 2021 shape. ...
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    Forest in the Rain

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 3, 2021
    October 3, 2021. It was a steady drizzle but a nice day to walk in the forest. Everything looks different when it's wet. I got some reading done and worked on a literature review for my upcoming presentation to the Open Learning conference. Also watche...
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    Purple Finch with Rain

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 3, 2021
    October 2, 2021. Rain. This female purple finch greeted me first thing this morning. No bike ride because of the rain, but I was able to spend most of the day working on my online course, getting the website sorted out, setting up the Activity Centre, ...
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    Sparrow

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 3, 2021
    October 1, 2021. Sparrow all fluffed up in fall feathers on the gazebo out back. Worked a bit on the course, and of course on the newsletter, but was pretty tired all day. It's hard to recover from mid-week football games, as we're not back until midni...
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    Yellow Flowers

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 1, 2021
    September 30, 2021. Today was in theory a day off, but I spent some extra time on my newsletter today looking up proper Indigenous resources, and also worked on the course a bit, to confirm email was sending properly (it is). But we also visited the Co...
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    Changing Leaves

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    October 1, 2021
    September 29, 2021. Fall is definitely here, as this view of my back yard attests. The birds are still frequenting the feeder, and we'll have to put out the tray feeder for the winter birds soon. Meanwhile, I continue to progress on the online course, ...
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    Lansdowne Park

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 29, 2021
    September 28, 2021. We were back for another RedBlacks game tonight (which we won!) in our usual seats in the north stands, pictured here. I know it has a new name but I spent a *lot* of time in this building in the 1970s working for Versa Foods, I hav...
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    Julia

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 29, 2021
    September 27, 2021. This is Julia on her shelf in front of the window in the kitchen, right up behind where I sit. She is much more approachable these days and seems to look forward to being up there when I'm in the kitchen. Good productive day today a...
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    Chicken of the Woods

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    | 2021365, laetiporus, Syndicated
    September 26, 2021
    September 29, 2021, bonus photo of the day. Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species, especially Laetiporus sulphureus, are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, o...
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    Cat TV

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 25, 2021
    September 24, 2021. This is Julia enjoying the vivid colours of our back yard in the fall sunlight. I began this Friday with a panel to wrap my participation in the TILT conference, and then more work on the OERu install. I got tired of that and made a...
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    Wild Apples

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 25, 2021
    September 25, 2021. These apples are growing wild on a former farm now known as the Reveler Conservation Area. I took a 50km bicycle ride there and back this afternoon on a brilliant fall day. In the morning I set up the website for my upcoming MOOC; t...
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    Changing Room

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 25, 2021
    September 23, 2021. This is where I change into my biking clothes; it's the downstairs bathroom (which doubles as the laundry room). What I mostly did today was to work on the OERu WordPress-Docker setup, which I still can't get to run. I'm running out...
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    Football in the Rain

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    | 2021365, football, Syndicated
    September 23, 2021
    September 22, 2021. The highlight of tonight's @RedBlacks game was the pizza, which was much improved over last game. And the rain was cool. But the 24-7 score flattered the losing side at home. Anyhow, I spent the work day working on the OERu-style Wo...
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    Popcorn Bowl

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 22, 2021
    September 21, 2021. Andrea burned some of her popcorn yesterday, which she placed in this bowl. Result: a tasty treat for me, because I don't mind burned popcorn at all. Work day today: meeting in the morning, attending the Creative Commons summit onli...
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    The Getaway

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 20, 2021
    September 19, 2021. A chickadee makes its escape with a load of seeds. We were in the Upper Canada Migratory Bird Sanctuary, where we went for a 7km hike through forests and marsh. I had my camera set wrong for the conditions so the pictures weren't al...
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