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by bardo 🍁
2023-01-12
book club

$3 Book Club: Old Books, Old Ideas

I’m on my second novel of the project and so far I’m two for two on some very misogynistic protagonist characters and a solid one hundred percent for some cringe-worthy bits of colonial-bent racism. Advice?

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2023-01-06
book club

the three buck book club

It only makes sense that a guy who cooks on cast iron, spends time in the outdoors and enjoys cooking clean, simple food would also be into vintage books, right? I decided that I want to read more in 2023. I want do do a lot of things in 2023,…

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2021-12-18
sketching, travel tales

Words on Sketching

Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say… a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I’ve taken to the internets this past year…

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2021-09-09
good reads

Book: Handbook of the Canadian Rockies

I don’t buy many paper books these days, so I caught even myself off guard when I dropped fifty bucks on this doorstop-grade loaf while on vacation over the summer, and in a souvenir store no less. We had spent the day in the wilderness and flipping through the pages…

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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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