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by bardo 🍁
2023-05-20
environment, life and stuff

Fire Smoke

We’ve been routinely waking up to the smell of campfire, and not in a good way. Last year I had this idea of creating a video series to accompany this site, and I actually produced a couple early episodes, where I would have a sit around a campfire — maybe…

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2023-05-19
garden

garden boxing

I take a few months off blogging and, woops! There goes all the news and activities piling up. I upended my vegetable garden. Well, not literally, I guess. When we moved into the house I was resolute on the idea of devoting a chunk of the yard to a vegetable…

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2023-03-22
sourdough

another sourdough day

I’ve been writing quite a bit in my #daily thread this past month and a half about my #sourdough and it felt like a good day to combine, mix, fold and proof those words into a proper post. Share and enjoy!

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2023-03-13
pie

while I worked…

…and my daughter had the day off from school, she baked. Tomorrow is Pi Day. March 14th. 3-14, if you write it out the proper way to look like the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi, 3.14… She baked a pie. It is an apple pie, with ingredients…

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about

It’s about more than just food.

It’s about a mindset and a perspective on living a full, active and interesting life.

The Cast Iron Guy blog heated up in January 2021 as a journal of uncomplicated things, life lived, and a mindset that reflects the philosophical practicality of well-seasoned cast iron frying pan: enduring, simple, down-to-earth & extremely useful.

I write regularly from here in the Canadian Prairies about things that interest me, including the artistic inspiration I get outdoors, travel, gear, growing and cooking food, fire craft, suburban and nature trails, running, and (of course) the clever and curious ways I find to use my many pieces of cast iron cookware.

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