Mike Leipe
@mleipe.bsky.social
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire
Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa, Canada
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our cottage neighbours, on whose property this stands, think it's funny as hell. I think it belongs on the cover of a @stephenking.bsky.social novel.
#creepy
#creepy
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Our cottage neighbours, on whose property this stands, think it's funny as hell. I think it belongs on the cover of a @stephenking.bsky.social novel.
#creepy
#creepy
Nice!
I'd forgotten about the balloon festival across the river on the Labour Day week end! We attended a few times when our kids were very young.
I made the mistake of cycling the Véloroute des Draveurs, northbound from Low, for 3+ hours today. Gorgeous day, not a nice ride. Won't do it again.
I'd forgotten about the balloon festival across the river on the Labour Day week end! We attended a few times when our kids were very young.
I made the mistake of cycling the Véloroute des Draveurs, northbound from Low, for 3+ hours today. Gorgeous day, not a nice ride. Won't do it again.
August 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nice!
I'd forgotten about the balloon festival across the river on the Labour Day week end! We attended a few times when our kids were very young.
I made the mistake of cycling the Véloroute des Draveurs, northbound from Low, for 3+ hours today. Gorgeous day, not a nice ride. Won't do it again.
I'd forgotten about the balloon festival across the river on the Labour Day week end! We attended a few times when our kids were very young.
I made the mistake of cycling the Véloroute des Draveurs, northbound from Low, for 3+ hours today. Gorgeous day, not a nice ride. Won't do it again.
Here in Ottawa today we have both this:
- A prolonged period of extreme heat and humidity continues.
- Daytime highs of 29 to 32 degrees Celsius and a humidex of 35 to 40.
And this:
- Thunderstorms may become severe today.
- Wind gusts up to 100 km/h
- Heavy downpours
- Hail up to toonie size
- A prolonged period of extreme heat and humidity continues.
- Daytime highs of 29 to 32 degrees Celsius and a humidex of 35 to 40.
And this:
- Thunderstorms may become severe today.
- Wind gusts up to 100 km/h
- Heavy downpours
- Hail up to toonie size
July 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Here in Ottawa today we have both this:
- A prolonged period of extreme heat and humidity continues.
- Daytime highs of 29 to 32 degrees Celsius and a humidex of 35 to 40.
And this:
- Thunderstorms may become severe today.
- Wind gusts up to 100 km/h
- Heavy downpours
- Hail up to toonie size
- A prolonged period of extreme heat and humidity continues.
- Daytime highs of 29 to 32 degrees Celsius and a humidex of 35 to 40.
And this:
- Thunderstorms may become severe today.
- Wind gusts up to 100 km/h
- Heavy downpours
- Hail up to toonie size
The view from my workspace last evening. Some jobs are worth commuting to.
June 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The view from my workspace last evening. Some jobs are worth commuting to.
After close friends and family and my health care team, Dr. David's book "Emotional Agility" has been the most helpful resource I've found for dealing with this cancer thing.
June 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
After close friends and family and my health care team, Dr. David's book "Emotional Agility" has been the most helpful resource I've found for dealing with this cancer thing.
April 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How cool is finding a Rush reference in the funnies?
March 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How cool is finding a Rush reference in the funnies?
February 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yet another perfect day on Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway.
February 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yet another perfect day on Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway.
February 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The original plan was to hit the ski hill this morning but that's not going to happen... 🥶
January 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The original plan was to hit the ski hill this morning but that's not going to happen... 🥶
Such a treat to see this again, for the first time in almost three years.
January 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Such a treat to see this again, for the first time in almost three years.
BTW, "Chariots of the Gods" gets 4.6 stars on Amazon, but that doesn't mean that space aliens built the pyramids in Egypt.
January 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
BTW, "Chariots of the Gods" gets 4.6 stars on Amazon, but that doesn't mean that space aliens built the pyramids in Egypt.
Did you expand the "Scoring for Reference Accuracy" section?
December 30, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Did you expand the "Scoring for Reference Accuracy" section?
And this cringy tweet from early in the pandemic, which purports to demonstrate that higher seed oil consumption leads to higher death rates but, because it presents country-level rather than per-capita consumption, is absolutely meaningless.
3/3
3/3
December 29, 2024 at 2:05 PM
And this cringy tweet from early in the pandemic, which purports to demonstrate that higher seed oil consumption leads to higher death rates but, because it presents country-level rather than per-capita consumption, is absolutely meaningless.
3/3
3/3
When my cousin moved to Mexico she said, "now you can come visit, get away from the winter".
Today, up on the ski hill for the first time this season with half a dozen friends, I thought, as I've thought so many times since then, "why would anyone in their right mind want to get away from *this*?".
Today, up on the ski hill for the first time this season with half a dozen friends, I thought, as I've thought so many times since then, "why would anyone in their right mind want to get away from *this*?".
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
When my cousin moved to Mexico she said, "now you can come visit, get away from the winter".
Today, up on the ski hill for the first time this season with half a dozen friends, I thought, as I've thought so many times since then, "why would anyone in their right mind want to get away from *this*?".
Today, up on the ski hill for the first time this season with half a dozen friends, I thought, as I've thought so many times since then, "why would anyone in their right mind want to get away from *this*?".
I don't use Spotify very often; in fact, it appears, only when my Multiple Personality Disorder is at its most intense. 😵💫
December 6, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I don't use Spotify very often; in fact, it appears, only when my Multiple Personality Disorder is at its most intense. 😵💫
Such a treat to skate outdoors again!
December 1, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Such a treat to skate outdoors again!
That's the Christmas baking done.
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
That's the Christmas baking done.
One of the highlights of our cottage season - the Lyndhurst Turkey Fair!
September 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
One of the highlights of our cottage season - the Lyndhurst Turkey Fair!
Inga & I met in the summer of 1974 on my uncle's orchard in southern British Columbia. She was a 23-yo agricultural exchange student from Denmark and I was 13, with nothing better to do with my summer.
Today she, her husband & I hiked up one side of the Mont-Tremblant ski hill and down the other.
Today she, her husband & I hiked up one side of the Mont-Tremblant ski hill and down the other.
September 4, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Inga & I met in the summer of 1974 on my uncle's orchard in southern British Columbia. She was a 23-yo agricultural exchange student from Denmark and I was 13, with nothing better to do with my summer.
Today she, her husband & I hiked up one side of the Mont-Tremblant ski hill and down the other.
Today she, her husband & I hiked up one side of the Mont-Tremblant ski hill and down the other.