Category: News

  • Homegrown Wordperfect theme

    I’ve been using the WordPress 2014 theme, which I liked, but found a few things I wanted to change. Unfortunately it’s not an easy theme eo modify or add to – at least, not at my level of expertise. So I created a theme from scratch based on the look of 2014, with my own […]

  • The dog days of Summer

    Catching up on things that happened this Summer: We took delivery of our new tree, a Ginkgo, which looks puny compared to the late, lamented European Ash, which fell prey to the emerald ash borer last year. After years of not having a bird feeder, we finally worked out that something up high in the […]

  • Floored by renovations

    While we were on vacation, we arranged to have most of our wooden flooring sanded and re-finished. Adam’s room and the upstairs hall were emptied into the spare bedroom, and the kitchen and family room furniture was stacked into the dining room, living room and my study. When we got back we had the empty […]

  • Dust to dust, Ashes to mulch

    The treatment for the Emerald Ash borers in our beautiful tree out front failed, and the tree doctor suggested pulling the plug. Incredibly, Mary-Jo phoned me just after I’d started a dog walk to say the tree guys were there to cut it down, and by the time I got back 20 minutes later it […]

  • Emerald Ash Borer strikes

    Alas, our European Ash will soon be no more. Emerald Ash borers are eating it away from the inside. We’ve been treating it with Treeazin for about three years, but it seems it was too little, too late. Once about a third of the tree’s crown is dead, it doesn’t come back, so it’s going […]

  • Fame at Last

    Teampowell.ca has been discovered by spammers;Talk about being in the BIg Leagues! Luckily it was all caught by Askimet. Isn’t it wonderful when something just works as advertised?