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Recipe and Tutorial: Tropical Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe is my absolute go-to recipe for all things carrot cake; its origin comes from a trusted recipe in my little More Food That Really Schmecks baking book by my Canadian home-baking heroine, Edna Staebler. I’ve fiddled around with it over the years, adding this and removing/altering that, until I developed what I consider…

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Geekery: High Command Collectible Card Game

I learned a new game this evening at our favourite game store, Hobby Kingdom, in Burlington, Ontario! High Command, a collectible card game from Privateer Press (PP), was just released in early October of this year, and our local PP Press Ganger, Chris, was on hand at the store today to demo the Hordes version…

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TravelScapes: Christmas in Missouri

Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine (not to be confused with a Hot Tub Time Machine), and let me tell you about my vacation in Missouri over the Christmas holidays of 2001. I had decided to come home and go back to college full time after bumming around on walkabout for 5…

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Scouts Canada: Making Finger Puppets!

As I posted in a previous blog, I’m a Scouts Canada Beaver Leader.  Tic Tac is my name, and making learning fun for kids is my game! *cue wide manic grin and creepy giggling* …sorry, it’s been a loooong-ass week. Our amazing and fearless Section Leader, the previously mentioned Erinith, has been ensuring our new…

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Miscellany: Our Cat

We have an awesome cat. Correction; we have an awesome recycled kittypuss. His name is Hexamorph (obv. not our choice of names), and he is a short-hair domestic pussycat of awesomeosity.  That’s his scientific name…I looked it up. He would be a great birder. If we let him. Oh, and he has thumbs.  Actual, jointed,…

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