 catalog each year with helpful gardening tips.
I plant all my vegetables in raised beds. Raised beds allow the soil to heat up faster so you can get a jump start on the growing season. They are also easy to work in and build. They make all kinds of sizes and styles for all your gardening needs.
Great book on how to preserve your harvest. This is the book I use. It has great canning, freezing and storing methods.
Great water bath canner. Works very well. I use this to do all my water bath canning.
I personally own this pressure canner and am very pleased with this one. Great for canning low acid food.
Nice canning utility set. I own this one as well.
This device is awesome for freezing produce for the long term. I use it for storing all my wild edibles and garden produce. This system will eliminate freezer burn. It will keep your food fresh up to 5x longer. Highly recommend.
Check out my foraging page for books that I recommend.
Reference was a book titled Capital Losses, which is out of print. It is available at various libraries. We found a copy at the Franklin & Marshall College Library.
A book on early aviation is shown below this story.
Hoover field is not mentioned in this book, but it is an excellent source of early flying machines.
The author's exciting text and over 300 vintage photos introduce the early pioneers of flight and their aircraft: Otto Lilienthal, who developed and flew the first man carrying gliders; Octave Chanute, the creator of the biplane glider. Samuel Langley, whose craft were catapulted into the air from a houseboat on the Potomac River, and the Wright brothers who, in 1903, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in history. Other notable figures include Louis Blériot, Jacob Ellehammer, Henri Farman, and others. Special sections are devoted to the great flying meets of the period, to plances that looked promising but never got off the ground, planes that crashed, and those craft desighed for fighting.
XBit have given everyone the heads up on a new quietly released Radeon X1800 *GTO2* card from Sapphire. This offering supposedly has superior performance not only to the original GTO variant, but also compared with X1800XL models. It's clocked up 500Mhz and carries 512MB of 1000MHz GDDR3 memory.
get the full scoop on it here folks.
Sapphire Radeon X1800 GTO2 comes with fully-fledged Radeon X1800 XL processor clocked at 500MHz with 16 pixel shader engines, 8 vertex shader engines as well as 16 texture units. The graphics board is equipped with 512MB of 1000MHz GDDR3 memory as well as video input/video output capability. The graphics card is currently sold in Japan, according to Akiba PC Hotline, however, there are reports that the products can also be acquired in Eastern Europe.
ATI Radeon X1800 GTO has 12 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex processors, while the Radeon X1800 XL features 16 pixel shader units and 8 vertex shader units. Both are equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 and are clocked at 500MHz/1000MHz core/memory. Considering the specs, it is clear that the Radeon X1800 GTO2 is more powerful than the X1800 GTO or X1800 XL models.
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Great show!
In regards to Uncle Bobby and mothers from Just Like Mom, the timelines don't match. Uncle Bobby ran on the air from 1964 to 1979, but certainly longer in re-runs. Just Like Mom ran from 1980 to 1985. I was on the first season of Just Like Mom (there was a different host Stephen Young, who was much better and did not kiss the children.) It was filmed on Saturday morning so even if Uncle Bobby was filming during the time span, he wouldn't have been there on a Saturday. Feel free to ask me anything....December 16, 2017 @ 9:33 AM
@Sarah
Sorry, we were unclear. Uncle Bobby liked the moms of the kids who would come to his show, not Just Like Mom.
The full Uncle Bobby story is in this previous episode with Retrontario: 16, 2017 @ 9:38 AM
Got it!December 16, 2017 @ 9:44 AM
@Sarah
I had no idea there was another host of Just Like Mom before Fergie!December 16, 2017 @ 9:46 AM
Nice mention of Mike Flowers Pops!! His whole album is great, especially the cover version of Prince'sDecember 16, 2017 @ 10:06 AM
"1999". Also, Uncle Bobby's awesome theme song totally calls out for some kind of hip hop or dance
music sampling, or at the very least key usage in the next, inevitable Austin Powers film! P.S., I wonder
how many illegitimate children were created as result of these illicit backstage trysts with star-struck
mothers!
Many rumours back in the day of a dalliance between Dave Stieb and Fergie Olver's "Just Like Mom'December 16, 2017 @ 10:13 AM
co-host/wife Catherine Swing back in the day!!
Hands down, the two Retrontario episodes were the best of the year!! Can't get enough of that sweetDecember 16, 2017 @ 11:14 AM
Harry Forbes music!
@Sarah Uncle Bobby did live on at CFTO after 1979 in it's rebooted form called "Kid's Corner" (later "Uncle Bobby & Friends") up until 1981 or 82. Mike & I talked about that one - which had robots instead of humans interacting with Uncle Bobby - in one of the earlier episodes I appeared on.December 16, 2017 @ 2:40 PM
I would have to The Silent Partner ranks up there as one of the greatest films shot in Toronto, it also qualifies as a Christmas film.December 16, 2017 @ 9:16 PM
Very nice to hear the alt Beach Boys track Feel flows. The song was written by Carl Wilson and was featured on the Almost Famous soundtrack and played during the closing credits of the movie. Was wondering what the retroontario tie in to the Beach Boys would be and we heard it.
Was mentioned that the song was not a hit but the album that the song is taken Surf's Up was played on progressive rock radio and I have two air checks featured on my site that I recorded where Feel Flows is played.
The song Surfs Up written by Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks was not the surfin BB's and as mentioned on the podcast by Ed was more esoteric. In fact there is a great line in the song that goes "columnated ruins domino."December 16, 2017 @ 11:30 PM
@JeffBentley - 100%! That is an amazing, slept-on classic Toronto Christmas movie. Definitely will cover if/when we do Vol. 2 next year!
@JavedJafri thanks I did not know Feel flows was in Almost Famous! Truly, a Carl Wilson beauty.December 17, 2017 @ 8:39 PM
@Ed - did you manage to find that message board post about the KOTJ episodes? I'd be very interested to read it.
This was a great episode - Retroontario eps are always a favourite of mine.
BTW, a "great" Christmas show filmed in Toronto is called "The Search for Santa Claus", starring Sir Peter Ustinov, and a young up and comer (yours truly). It's awful, mostly stock footage, but charming in its badness. Check it out here, if you dare - 20, 2017 @ 3:28 PM
Always a great episode.
Sad trivia about Bob Clark of Black Christmas fame...
 driven by an illegal alien. Valazquez-Nava was deported and re-entered under a different name and is currently living in Los Angeles illegally."December 21, 2017 @ 10:30 AMIn Polynesian mythology, Raka Maomao is the god of wind, equivalent to La'a Maomao (Hawaii) and Fa'atiu (Samoa).
Agung Raka Bungalows are set amidst the green tropical trees at the art community of Pangosekan Village to take advantage of the nature while preserving its value.
Agung Raka Bungalows has picturesque surroundings - a beautiful garden and rice field terraces with bougenvillea, palm trees, coconut plantation, bamboos, hibiscus and so on.
Agung Raka Bungalows are available in different room types: Villa Standard, Bungalow, Lumbung Sri Bungalow (new), Superior Bungalow and Kingdom Suite.
Last week I talked about a package that our good friend Raka of Lance and Eskimo Message Board fame sent me. I emailed him asking him for some free Pillsbury products and I got a little more than I bargained for.
Raka sent me two of these and just in time.
Me and Chris play so much frisbee during the summer that we were thinking of getting another frisbee for his house and one for the car so that no matter where we are or if we forget or not we'll always have a frisbee.I finally finally watched RENT today…