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Archive for August, 2005

31 Aug

New and Improved

Eclecticblogs will be down intermittently until Friday or Saturday as we are going through an engine upgrade and skin replacement. Stay tuned for the new look.

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27 Aug

Mother Nature Fails to Cooperate…Again

After the cold and wet July, we figured we would finally get some nice weather in August. It now appears that we have to hope that September is nice. Like July, August has been wet, cold and just plain miserable.
Last week was supposed to be the playoffs for our slo-pitch league. Unfortunately the weather was [...]

21 Aug

Gourdon

Gourdon Originally uploaded by EclecticBlogs.
This is Gourdon. He is the Eco-Garden Gnome we decorated for the Inuvik Greenhouse Fall Fair. We didn’t win anything however we had fun decorating and making our gnome our own. I think everyone had fun with the decorating but some of the stories written as background for the [...]

15 Aug

Holidays & Good Times

Today is the start of 3 weeks of holidays. Finally some time off to do some things around the house and have some R & R. This year we are not going anywhere as Patti started a new job today and will not get holidays for a bit. For the first time in 14 years, [...]

11 Aug

A Slo-Pitch First?

I have been playing on a local slo-pitch team this summer and we did something on Sunday that I am not sure has happened in a slo-pitch game before.
A fantasticly pitched game (by me I might add) and some fantastic fielding by the pitcher (me again) and some decent work by the rest of the [...]

08 Aug

Global Warming??

A recent report by CBC indicates that as a result of “Global Warming”, the polar ice could be melted enough by 2050 so that ships could traverse the Northwest Passage on a regular basis. Currently the passage is open for approximately 20 days per year however it is expected to be open for more than [...]

03 Aug

Long Couple of Hours

After what was supposed to be a couple of hours of downtime with the host servers, Eclecticblogs is finally back up and running. During the server moves (which were supposed to be a couple of hours late one night) at the host, a hard drive decided to call it quits. With no current back-up (lesson [...]

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