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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Food

Gelatinization and Crab Apple Jelly

It’s almost fall! How do we know? [1] Celsius is a gateway to the metric system, which in turn is a gateway to universal health care. Gelatinization: What You Need to Know Thank You for Your Patience Before we get on to the apples, let’s celebrate the variety of the AI experience. All images were […]

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The Seven Sisters in Geography

Turns out there are many natural formations named “The Seven Sisters.” Let’s look at a few of them. Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta Canada We couldn’t help but notice the proximity of Seven Sisters Mountain and Ma Butte. (Oh, grow up.) Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia Just down the road, in British Columbia, are the Seven […]

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Alberta Food Will there be a buffet?

Varenyky / Perogies / Вареники: A Deep Dive

The Stream of Consciousness 6/5/2024 7:24 AM Gentle people – as we traverse the northern prairie on our way to the largest ball of twine, we need to stop at Wall Drug in SD to see the 80’ brontosaurus. We can discuss whether we go to nearby Mount Rushmore to see it before Trump gets […]

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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Will there be a buffet?

East of 60 / Unnecessary Farce

Elder UC#1 Checks In Busy time for me, doing the sound and lights for the local dinner theatre East of 60. So named because Devon is on the East side of Highway 60. And I always thought artists were creative! [WLBOTT Fact Check: Given our current understanding of “east”, we rate this as True] The […]

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Alberta Texas

Enchanted Rock and Fairy Shrimp

Enchanted Rock is a pink granite mountain located in the Llano Uplift about 17 miles (27 km) north of Fredericksburg, Texas and 24 miles (39 km) south of Llano, Texas, United States. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, which includes Enchanted Rock and surrounding land, spans the border between Gillespie and Llano counties, south of the […]

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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Heros

First Baptist Church – Edmonton

Today we celebrate The First Baptist Church of Edmonton. The church, under the leadership of Ryan Sato, is know for its friendly, welcoming congregation and “a desire to celebrate the God-given worth of every person”, a commitment to community (including its alliance with The Mustard Seed), incredible music (including a pipe organ, choir, hand bells, […]

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Alberta Canada Food Heros

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Honoring Karyn Today’s post honors Karyn, daughter of an Elder. Karyn wanted to become a professional singer, and wanted to share her financial success with the homeless. She is age 18 here, and had just done a street mission project in Calgary with an organization called the Mustard Seed, that was originated in Edmonton by […]

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Alberta Climate Change

Fort McMurray Wildfire

[thanks to UC#1 and UC#1-SU for today’s topic] Between May and early August of 2016, a massive wildfire burned in the northeastern region of Alberta (the Fort McMurray area). The wildfire was the most expensive disaster in Canadian history. From Wikipedia: As a testament to the Canadian Government’s efficiency and readiness, there were no direct […]

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Ft. McMurray, AB

It began simple enough…. an email exchange between UC#3 and UC#1: Gents- I know I’ve been a bit offline for WLBOTT, but I have a friend who is traveling to northern Alberta next week and she and I were talking and I recommended she take her engineering team to this restaurant in Fort McMurray. Looks […]