8r4d Our days of snow-free #walk adventures are getting fewer and fewer as we creep into November.

pixelazy The November #sky saved a bit of daylight this morning.

8r4dsfeets Post-run the fallout from #halloween earlier this week is evident in the parking lot.

8r4d Thanks to a minor foot injury I haven’t been out #running in about two weeks and sadly missed the last couple #autumn run opportunities of the season. Now the first snow has arrived and the temperatures have fallen and it seems like winter running season is here again. We locked in a simple #10k through our fallback winter route. Sigh.

8r4d Oh sure, the #snow may have held off to leave the kids alone long enough to trick-or-treat, but now that it’s November the white stuff has finally arrived. It pretty much all melted by mid-afternoon, but still—a harsh reminder that #winter is due soon enough. [read more...]

adventuredog The #snow arrived for the season on the morning of the second day of November, and guess who was excited to sniff around in the cold and wet.

adventuredog #halloween

8r4dsfeets The #halloween decorations cover a lot more surfaces at the kids school than expected.

8r4d Just a #sunset from the mall parkade.

8r4d Just grabbing a quick #sunrise on a Saturday morning trek to do some serious typing.

adventuredog The dog and I are buying days until winter covers all this up with snow and cold, and we’re grabbing a few last #autumn walks while we still can. Or adventure on Friday afternoon gave us a bit of perfect weather, a gentle and calm river to admire and a few remaining leaves to crunch under our feet.

It’s been a while since Cricket wanted to make a video, but it was such a beautiful day in the dog park that she just could not help posing and climbing and watching all the birds playing in the leaves.

8r4d Spectacles, used books and #coffee on a Saturday #downtown adventure.

8r4d #running this evening felt very #autumn and once again we were back to needing headlamps and jackets—tho I managed to forget my jacket. Brr!

8r4d Sights from this mornings #autumn #trails #running

8r4d In mid October the temperatures are starting to fall as fast as the leaves from the trees, but the trails are just clear enough to tease out one last pre-winter run. #running #runcrew #autumn

8r4d Our regular Thursday #runcrew #running adventure was diverted from our usual Mill Creek routine and instead we did a chilly six through Blackmud Creek as the #autumn #sunset hit some groovy vibes.

8r4d Just a quiet video of some autumn colours. They fade so quickly each year, don’t they? Just take a few minutes to enjoy them.

pixelazy Another few splashes of #autumn colour for you.

adventuredog Posing pretty in the #autumn colours. She was not as excited to be out here as normal. Maybe it was the odd construction noise in the distance, or maybe she’s more of a summer dog?

8r4d It kinda seems like there is some #construction shenanigans afoot at the dog park this week. I can’t tell if they’re doing some seriously hard core trail maintenance or if they are putting down a foundation to actually pave the whole four kilometre loop after twenty years. These guys were just hauling gravel crush from one place to the work site, but there were about a dozen workers hanging about. #dogpark

8r4d The autumn colours were in full force this week, and it’s only a matter of days before the snow falls. Enjoy this rare view of a sunny orange run thru the Edmonton suburbs

8r4d Our #autumn #runclub night was an orange delight and we tackled about 8k of asphalt #running as the sun set and blew up the colours. Oh, and it’s getting chilly out there folks!

8r4d If you’re not a #violin player chances are you’ve never really payed any attention to the intricacies of the parts of the instrument itself.

I’ve been in #orchestra for about five years now and playing for over eight, and it was in about my second year that I upgraded from my student violin to a fancier model. The student model came fully equipped with all the little bits to make it easier to play, including a full set of fine tuners. But when I upgraded, the luthier from whom I bought it said something like “this one doesn’t have them and we can always add them if you want to later…” and I bought it and have been mucking around tuning my violin with the pegs for years.

Which is fine.

But I was sitting there struggling the other day for the thousandth time and it occurred to me that I should probably price out what it would cost me to put on some fine tuners… which of course turned out to be about fifteen bucks via a next day shipping order from Amazon. In other words, I’ve been struggling for years thinking this was a complex problem when it was about as complex sitting in the dark for five years before just ordering fresh light bulbs for a burnt out lamp.

In other other words, my violin now has fine tuners and my tuning is immensely finer.