For my covid birthday weekend I had a lovely time. I got a black forest cake on the Friday. On the Saturday I got a fancy beer (very tasty), a Nintendo switch ( very fun) and a chocolate advent calendar. I had nice video chats on the weekend with all my family and Afsheen’s family too. On Saturday we took out a fancy meal that was quite tasty. I had elk osso buco and korean fried cauliflower. Afsheen has crab cakes and Pesto Elicoidali. We quite enjoyed it. From Afsheen’s sister I got a punny yeti card and a neat light kit. Afsheen’s parents gave me nice card and gift. From my parent’s I got a star wars card and some scotch glasses. The weather was as good as it gets in November. I didn’t have to shovel. All in all it was a lovely weekend. See photos below. Continue reading Birthday 2020 →

This Sunday on the May long weekend I decided to bbq some beef ribs. I took some photos of the process. I basically followed the directions from here: https://leitesculinaria.com/44707/recipes-barbecued-beef-back-ribs.html
For ingredients I just put a rub on that we had instead of the one provided. I also used hickory wood chips and smoked it some as it was cooking.
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For Christmas it was just Afsheen and I and we had a nice relaxing time. On Christmas Eve day I made a beef brisket. It took all day so we didn’t get to eat it for supper but had it afterwards. It was quite tasty. On Christmas Day we saw the new Jumangi with Afsheen’s parents. It was quite fun. It was the second time I had watched it! The theatre was quite busy. Lots of people out watching movies. For boxing day we went to the mall fairly early and got some good deals on things. See below for some photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Continue reading Christmas 2019 →

After saving up some gift money and a Black Friday sale I was able to buy a new camera body. I got a Nikon D7500. I took some random photos with it. Some of the photos include pictures of Afsheen, pictures of the guys, backyard pictures, pictures of my Star Wars wreath I got as a gift from Afsheen and Scotch that I bought with a gift card I had from my bachelor part!y Continue reading New Camera →

Maverick came over for a visit to my place so he could get practice travelling and visiting other places. He did quite well besides throwing his litter all over the place. See pictures of his visit below. Continue reading Maverick pictures →

A little late putting the pictures up but better late than never.
I had a nice birthday meal with Geoff and Abril. Continue reading My Birthday →

Last Sunday I made myself a loaf of bread.

I found this recipe:
http://www.thekitchn.com/noknead-bread-i-35556

It sounded pretty good so I gave it a try and it turned out well.

See pictures of it below. Continue reading Bread →

Due to the nice (relative) weather Afsheen and I thought it would be good to go see the Christmas lights at the legislature. It was a nice evening for it.

I got some good practice taking pictures of lights at night. I still need more practice!

See below for my photos.
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On Saturday Geoff, Abril and I randomly decided to go to the Cariwest parade.
It was nice weather for it. It started about 30 minutes late, had a weird break in it that we almost left but was good weather and we had fun.

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This Canada Day, I decided I wanted to practice with my camera and learn how to do fireworks pictures.
In the afternoon I took a walk around the Legislature and area to get an idea of where I wanted to be and where others were.
Ultimately I decided I would try from my brother’s balcony.
I went back to my place, got my tripod and remote shutter and went back to his place.

At 11pm the bridge lit up for the first time and there were some other fireworks at other locations going on in the background.
About 5 minutes later the fireworks started. Unfortunately about half the fireworks were behind a building but I still got some nice shots and learned some things that I needed to figure out.
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