http://danandcarly.wintschel.com a journey through life Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:13:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the charities that Carly and I like to support is Journey Home Community. They provide resettlement assistance and transitional housing to refugee claimants in the Lower Mainland. This year, on October 3rd, they will be participating in the global Ride for Refugees. If you have a heart for helping refugees, ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/09/09/ride-for-refugees/ We had planned to go camping for a week after we finished innsitting, and camp we did. Well, until we were evacuated from our campsite due to the 4000-hectare-burning-out-of-control Terrace Mountain fire. These are some shots we took of the smoke while driving. http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/08/02/terrace-mountain-fire/ Following our Calgary trip, we headed to Kelowna for a week of Innsitting at Willow Beach. Carly and I met Jim and Deb (the owners at Willow Beach) last summer when we stayed there for a few nights. We hit it off, and they asked us if we'd consider innsitting ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/07/21/innsitting-eh/ Now that we're back in the saddle (groan), vacation is over and it's time to write some posts. We spent about a week in Calgary, enjoying time with friends and family, and also headed to check out the stampede. I haven't been to the stampede since I was about 8 or ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/07/10/calgary-stampede/ It turns out, Alberta does have some redeeming qualities. A shot we took on the iPhone 3GS while driving. Hopefully off to the Stampede today! http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/07/04/on-alberta/ Last night we had dinner with some friends who were out from Nelson for the weekend, and returned to one of our newly found favorite restaurants. Chambar Belgian Restaurant (near Gastown, 1/2 block from Stadium Station) is absolutely outstanding, and has climbed to one of our favorite places to eat. With ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/06/27/chambar/ I've decided to move our blog away from Blogger and onto WordPress in an attempt to amalgamate, and have a bit better control over things. I couldn't be bothered to set up all the redirection properly, so the search engine rankings for the blog are going to get totally killed. ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2009/06/25/blog-moved/ One might wonder if we were dead. Alas, I am sorry to report that we are not.Neglecting the blog, definitely, but very much alive nonetheless. Can't really say why we've been neglecting the blog. Probably we've been too busy eating, or cooking or something to bother with writing.As usual, the ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2008/11/03/neglect-your-blog-much/ Relaxing doesn't seem to be very high on the priority list of 'stuff to do' lately. Well - perhaps it's high on the priority list, but ends up pretty much at the bottom of the feasibility list.But, we still have time to eat good food, and take a few pictures.Every ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2008/04/23/relax/ After an inspiring viewing of Iron Chef several months ago, we shopped, cooked, laughed and tasted in our own iron chef fashion.The key ingredient for all dishes - Chocolate!The rules were simple: no recipes allowed, use chocolate in everything, and have fun. The last rule was certainly easy considering chocolate ... http://danandcarly.wintschel.com/2008/03/29/iron-chefs/