April 26, 2021. This small flower has appeared on the front lawn, and is at the moment the only flower on the front lawn. Work day today, starting with an 8:00 a.m. meeting (ugh), evaluations, and reading. I’m getting ready for two talks within 12 hours of each other starting…

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April 21, 2021. Yes, that’s snow on the lawn. It snowed a good part of the day but by evening it was mostly gone and we were headed in a good direction again. I spent most of the day attending the CNIE online conference, which turned out to be pretty…

April 20, 2021. The tulips are trying, but it has been cool recently and it’s hard to start blooming in the snow, which is what we have predicted for tomorrow. Cool and windy today. Indoors at the CNIE conference all day, including giving a workshop this morning. https://flic.kr/p/2kU8gBK…

April 19, 2021. This is the crabapple tree in our back yard. It always seems like it’s barely alive but it’s trying again for another year. Nice sunny day but I spent it indoors working on my presentation for the CNIE conference while at the same time watching other peoples’…

April 18, 2021. Still no cycling but we got out for a short 3km walk along Pine Grove Trail today. As you can see, it was a beautiful day and the forest is coming back to life. Watched the Blue Jays game in the afternoon while editing the photos and…

April 17, 2021. You may recall how Charlemagne gets stuck on the ledge; I took a photo back in February. Well, he’s still doing it. He goes down there, wails until he is rescued, and enjoys the attention. It has become a game, almost. Still nursing my sore back, but…

April 15, 2021. These are the three kittens. I know, they look like they should be posing for the cover of their latest album. I had a surprisingly productive day today, working on a number of different projects, making a video, and getting a tooth filling fixed. Still on painkillers…

April 14, 2021. This cowbird is a recent arrival in the back yard. We assume she has deposited her egg in one of the local birds’ nests (or maybe she’s just about to). We’ve seen her male companion around as well. Today it was back to work, still nowhere near…

April 13, 2021. I got outside for a very short walk today and saw these hyacinths in our back yard, the first splash of colour in the new year. It was a second sick day for me today, though like yesterday I still managed to do a reasonable amount of…

April 12, 2021. The grackles descend on the bird feeder in mobs, scaring away the other birds and sifting through the seeds looking for their favourites. But they’re still birds so I still like them. This was an indoor day as I nursed a pulled back muscle (i has been…

April 11, 2021. We went for a walk today along the Mer Bleue Bog trail. It was a beautiful early spring day with a sky half-blue and half cloud. It would have been even better had I not reinjured my back while trying to tie my shoe (of all things!).…

April 10, 2021. This is a pond along the Township road just next to Warwick Forest. It’s a temporary pond; it’s very full now, but will be completely empty by summer. I viewed it while doing the 50 km loop to Avonmore on the road bike. It feels pretty early…

April 9, 2021. This is the new part of the Chrysler Trail – it’s still coarse gravel – along the Nation River. They’ve done a really nice job winding it up and down the little river valleys. Since it’s so new, it’s gravel bike only. I took off an hour…

April 8, 2021. This is the 909 going by on the tracks near my house, with the new subdivision in the background. Today started out with back-to-back meetings, then I did some evaluation work, wrote a bit, and did some dev. It was generally productive. That said, even though it…

April 7, 2021. There’s nothing growing in the yard yet, but I did notice this baseball has sprouted at the very back. It’s rare to see them come up so early in the year. Anyhow, a moderately productive day spent mostly doing assessments and a little bit following an online…

April 6, 2021. This is Julia giving me attitude for daring to take her picture while she’s in her favourite sleeping container. I started the day with back-to-back meetings and did some work on project reviews before turning my attention again to the chmod problem in Docker, which thanks to…

April 4, 2021. Birch bark peeling away to reveal a fresh spring layer. Andrea and I went for a walk in the Pine Grove forest in the Greenbelt today, a tame 5 km to preserve my strained muscles. I also worked a fair bit with Docker compose, with my efforts…

April 2, 2021. Yes, I know, it’s another bird photo, because it was another indoor day, but I plan to be back on the bicycle tomorrow. Still, it’s a testament to the variety of species we have out here that I can add yet another new one to this year’s…

April 1, 2021. We stopped for a brief photo opportunity at Mer Bleu on the way home from Costco. One more day of rest and I think I’ll be able to resume activities again. Meanwhile I made huge strides on gRSShopper, and have solved most of the big problems, which…

March 31, 2021. This is the end of the day looking out the front door and down the street. You can see what the weather was like today by looking at the road. Another day focused on coding and I can see the end of the conversion project in sight.…

March 29, 2021. Julia sits on the rack by the back sliding doors watching the assortment of birds on the gazebo. Though it cleared later in the day it was still cold, and I stayed indoors and remained relatively pain-free all day (for which I am truly grateful). Aside from…

March 27, 2021. This is a fenceline at RRR Ranch on the 700 at Burelle Road. It looks a lot better on Google Maps; time has not been kind to it. Things are still pretty brown, and as I discovered on my bike ride, still pretty muddy. Still, I put…