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by bardo 🍁
2023-01-10
coffee, old tech

Moka Express

Having ditched the pod machines and spent a solid year tuning and enjoying my pour over game, Santa was kind enough to bring me a moka pot for Christmas this year.

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2022-12-03
life and stuff

Objectively Looped In

December 3 of 31 December-ish posts What’s your favourite subject in school, I ask a kid. Recess, he replies. What’s the best part of your job, I ask myself. Working from home a few days a week, I almost write. Except that’s not really true. What made your job interesting in 2022? I’ve…

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2021-12-25
life and stuff

Merry Christmas

What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant…

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2021-12-03
deeper thoughts

Not Created Equal

Not all websites are created equally. Take this site. As a real estate analogy, this is a cabin in the woods. This blog is the digital version of a weekend getaway, stuffed with comforts and curiosities, eclectic bits of cookware, and eccentric tchotchkes piled onto the shelves to add an…

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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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