61 next month. I don't feel like I'm 61. But I do feel like I'm tired. Beyond tired. i need a change somehow, someway.

Feels a little more real now

My days end best when the sunset gets itself behind That little lady sittin' on the passenger side It's much less picturesque without her catchin' the light The horizon tries but it's just not as kind on the eyes

White bagged beads and rolls have started giving me gut problems. For a while I guess but took me a while to link it. Funnily the villagio stuff (which is yellow I guess) is fine and store made seems to be too.

So the reform party renamed to conservative, and the conservative to liberal? Have I got that right?

I probably go through more Worcestershire sauce than 95% of the population. Another big bottle from Costco today

Eating cheesies makes me look like I've got nicotine fingers. Though can't say I've seen those on anyone in many a year

Still planning, and dreaming

Not written on this blog much lately, not because I didn't want to, but I started to run out of stories, was reminded of this somehow today tho! Hope you enjoy! randomisland.ca/2026/07/15/t...

Not condoning what happened, but people can only be pushed so far. I don't necessarily like it, but more will be coming. When you take away people's ability to hope, what else is left?

Don't usually share these, but this was my best yet www.maptap.gg July 15 97🔥 95🏅 100🎯 98🎯 98🎯 Final score: 980

Have been building out a roadmap to hopefully develop the land and off-grid site. Its frugal, but doable I think. Starting with a used pop-up trailer, then eventually maybe a shed conversion on one of these www.shorelinesheds.ca Can live in it as I finish it. Hoping I can make it work.

"Verify your age" I called four digit numbers on a rotary phone.

Lots of work to do here, but god my whole being longs to be there, maybe not permanently, but I need to get back to myb roots more.

I can't count how many hours I passed playing solitaire back in the day, and probably will again.

I need to get back into reading. Need to find a decent easy reading fantasy series

Many people and pundits say watching Pogacar is boring. But I disagree. I just stand in awe. He's a generational talent, and a cross sport personality. People say he'd doping, but he's tested after almost every stage as is his bike.

Fixed the bug in this page. Oops

I broke a page on my site and if course I only notice it when I'm not home to fix it

offgrid.randomisland.ca/message-in-a... Got a question about the solar setup, or anything else about what we are doing on the land? Send it along. If your question is a good one, I will write it up properly in a Notes from the Mailbag post so everyone can read the answer.

A little about me, just an old man, frustrated by the rat race, hoping for a simple life. offgrid.randomisland.ca/a-geek-on-th...

Why is Word so hard to freaking use? I want to put a piece of text somewhere and its a fight every damn time!

Every year, right around late June or early July, the damp, foggy weather rolls in off Trinity Bay. Around home, we call it caplin weather. It’s the time when millions of small, silver fish teem close to the shore, rolling onto the gravel beaches to spawn... offgrid.randomisland.ca/outport-kitc...

The portion of the contract I was working on at work is no longer a thing. Cancelled, not renewed, whatever. May be reassigned Monday, may be on the bench, but in the meantime I will look too. If you have any leads, give me a yell. Senior Python Dev, lots of DB and architecture experience.

When he was smaller, he used to climb me, so I am "tree' and this is "tree's boy". He's such a docile holy terror. But I adore the little ferret.

I took out ground beef to make homemade burgers to barbecue and it rained. You're welcome.

Part of considering the off grid idea is food preservation and storage. Again, all a dream, but its caplin season back home, so was reminded

I don't know how to say this, I'm not saying I'm looking for a partner, but I'm so fucking tired of feeling I have to do it all alone. Finding it hard to cope lately.

Know any good off grid, or rural Newfoundland accounts to follow? Send them along please!

Have created an account for the off grid dream. Love to have you follow along there. Long term goal, but maybe, just maybe, I can make a little piece of it happen.

I look around and the people I listened to, watched, etc are dying. People my age and younger have passed. I will be 61 in August, I've been working full time non stop except one year since I was 19. When do we actually get to "live" - So tired of this - mental health needs a change.

Have created an account for the off grid dream. Love to have you follow along there. Long term goal, but maybe, just maybe, I can make a little piece of it happen.

Kati is pretty patient to let me cry into her fur

Time rolls on And that's as it should be Here and gone It seems to move so quickly Man, we was happy in our restless hearts It was heaven right here on earth Yeah, we were laughin' as we reached for the stars And we had some, for what it was worth Those were good times Damn good times

Struggling today. Overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, self doubting... Who cares for the career? Distract me? Get me out of my own head? ngl.link/petersmithca2

offgrid.randomisland.ca/a-geek-on-th... Will start a bluesky account for this soon I think. And a youtuhbe channel - content might be sparse to start, but it motivates me to dream

I'll be awake by 4 but I still can't get to sleep for the life of me

I love how Kati knows my touch even in her sleep and will often roll for belly rubs in her sleep when I touch her. 4 and a half years since I got her, and I delight in her every day

The good times we had Wouldn't worry about tomorrow Cause tonight was all we had The good times we knew I'd tell you about them baby But you were there, you were with me, too

Sometimes, sitting here in Nova Scotia, my mind wanders back across the Cabot Strait to Random Island. I remember walking past the small, weathered one-room schoolhouses and the quiet rural churches that dot the harbour roads. offgrid.randomisland.ca/logs/communi...

While a driveway isn't even done yet, nor the Bell wires fixed (at least that I know of), my thoughts keep wandering to all the corners of the process. Before we can build anything permanent, we need a place to lay my head, fry some Charlie Martin's ham,... offgrid.randomisland.ca/grounds-stag...

Saw these A frame type little trailers that would be a perfect starter for my rural long term project. Too bad they're over 20k!!! EEEEEP

I was thinking back to the old outhouses we used to have around Apsey Brook when I was a boy. There was always a certain smell to them—a mix of dry spruce, wood shavings, and lime.. Water and Sanitation are more things to think about offgrid.randomisland.ca/water-waste/...

I need a passive income stream. I'm not sure how much longer my mental health can take the 8-4 grind

Friends.... I need a recommendation. My front window has had a leak that I no longer can delay. Well the leak is not in the window really, what I need is someone to find and fix it before I can replace the window. Probably the front little roof overhang thing, but unsure. Recommendations?

I can't even possibly describe how content having Kati here next to me makes me feel

Isaac Del Toro from Mexico win today's stage of the tour de France, think that momentum can carry over to tonight's soccer match too?

Oh, Momma, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law. Lawman has put an end to my runnin', and I'm so far from my home. Oh, Momma, I can hear you a'cryin; you're so scared and all alone. Hangman is comin' down from the gallows, and I don't have very long.

Likes are nice, but remember there's no algorithm. Doesn't boost the post in any way. Not that I expect I can ever make this anything but a long term retirement project, but reposts are nice and this goes for anyone else you support too!