One year after installing a solar array on our SW Calgary home, we've achieved 11.6% payback, have been through a warranty replacement of our string inverter, and have learned a lot about microgeneration in Alberta.
Category: Show Your Work
Photo Blogging Challenge – Glasses (February 2019)
Most of us use glasses every day. Those blessed with 20/20 vision sport sunglasses and lift drinking glasses. Those who need corrective lenses to experience anything close to 20/20 eyesight have a spending category labelled prescription glasses. For this month's PBC theme, I aimed to take photos of many different kinds of glasses. I didn't get any of magnifying glasses or rose-coloured glasses. Take a look through and let me know what else I missed.
Photo Blogging Challenge – Books (January 2019)
So many books, not enough time! Seriously...I've done the math! Factoring in how many years I have left before reaching the end of the average lifespan of a female Canadian and the number of books I read each year, I can expect to read roughly 2,000 more books in my lifetime. In other words, every …
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Blog Identity Crisis
Thanks to the many topics I've introduced over the years, the very nature of "Out and About with the GeoKs" is confusing. With categories ranging from gardening to book reviews, photography to snowshoeing and Lego to hiking, you could say this blog has an identity crisis! On the other hand, you could argue that variety keeps things interesting. What do you think? Should I keep calm and blog on? Or is it time for a major overhaul?
Broken Blog Posts
The earliest posts on this blog were drafted way back in 2008 and published on Myspace. When the blogging aspect of Myspace was discontinued in the fall of 2010, I ported more than 150 posts over to this WordPress hosted blog. The transfer went smoothly. But at some point, the photos embedded in those posts …