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.

pixelazy The #autumn colours are on full display this week, even tho the #rain is making it harder to explore

8r4dsfeets #autumn is in momentary colours

8r4d Oh, maybe you can’t tell but my morning #coffee and writing sesh has me trapped here while the #rain tuckers itself out. [read more...]

pixelazy Even a little #spider needs a caffeine fix, I guess. This little guy was literally climbing the walls from the buzz. #macro #insects

8r4d #flashback to #chicago #marathon 2023 because I’ve been meaning to repost some of the pics that got lost from this site when I got hacked last spring. It was a year ago this weekend that we did our little #running #travel adventure to the windy city to run the Chicago Marathon after years of deferrals. Technically the race was October 8th and Thanksgiving weekend back in Canada (which is next weekend) but dates, memories, blah, blah, blah, I’m calling it this weekend and today as the one year anniversary of my last marathon. It was a blast, but I think I’m sticking to shorter distances from here on out.

8r4d #flashback to #chicago and travelling there on our #running adventure for the 2023 Marathon. Travelling with friends is always a blast and hitting the tourist highlights in the days leading up to the race was pretty sweet: deep dish pizza, downtown, the pier, and all over town for food and sights. I can’t even begin to post all the great things I saw without about ten posts of flashbacks, so this small collection will have to do on the one year anniversary.