Again hit by hail here in Calgary

Calgary seems to get hit this year by many hail storms, but this time we got away with just a little one. My city gets chinooks and these can turn a beautiful day into storm and the other way around. We are known for getting summer weather in the middle of winter, these chinooks are sometimes a blessing and in some cases a curse.

I was sick the last days and really had no time blogging anything from importance and so I left it cool down for a bit.

As we got hit, I was just getting my camera (canon t3) setup for some video shots on a tripod. Yes we are lucky and got some footage, this time I cut it into a 2 minute short film, less wobbly. Love the camera and the ability to really shoot great video in HD and take stunning picture in RAW and jpeg. 

Here is my short Hail storm clip:                         

Thank you for watching and hope you stay safe and secure at all times.

JayDee

Buzzword Container Gardening. What is it really?

Container gardening can be done by everyone in almost every place or space. To make a long story short, instead of putting flowers into a big flower pot, you simply plant a veggie plant into it. If you want success, her some easy rules:

• Make sure you plant something YOU like and can grow there, shady spots for shady lovers and sunny ones for sun lovers. Info can be found on seed packages. Easy isn't it?
• Almost anything can be grown even inside with the help of cfl bulbs, you need ones with at least 6500k, k stands for kelvin and is a measure for light. 
• Get some garden soil for you planters, that can be anything from a plastik bucket (reuse &recycle) or get some planter boxes or even make some from scrap none treated wood. It is important for your health that you only use NONE TREATED wood. The chemicals could spoil your soil and your plant and ends up in your system as you eat.
• Convert unused space with racks into a nice gardening spot, a blank wall with lots of sun and old metal racks or whatever you have to convert it. You don't have to ruin your nice lawn for container gardening, isn't that cool?

You can have pretty much all year round some fresh veggies on your table that you harvested, empower yourself again. This skills are easy to learn and each year your crops will be better yielding because you start to really understand what you are doing.
Like I said, it can all be done low cost, just open your mind and imagination and you see your own potential again.
Good luck and like always here is a video of my city slicker porch in the core of Calgary.

Finally the Video to the nice Bow River Weir trip

Took some time to get that all converted and uploaded here from my 5 year old macbook I got for free, but it is worth the time.
You get some great shots from the Bow River and that brand new weir they build the last years, it looks great. Hope you enjoy it and if you like the music, I kid you not, it is made by me and is up for sale for just 0.49cents US!!! Help and support your Blogger, all of us spend time doing something and I have to invest in this many hours of time for, writing new articles, editing videos and composing music to it.
If you like this Blog and the music then please support me.
But now back to the Video and now lean back and enjoy,
JayDee

Have a great day

Bicycle trip to new Weir in Calgary

Yesterday I was with my neighbour on a bicycle trip around the bow up to the weir, to shot some pictures and video.
Riding through the city to get to the nice pathways around the river was the only real heat challenge,  but when you make it to the pathways, that are all nicely paved, you can feel the refreshing cool air from the river. So many beautiful scenes are around the river and you get so much more to see of Calgary then you can ever imagine when you drive by car.
Only shot a few pictures and just cutting the video footage together and making some music to it, will take a few days. But I will post the video here when I have it all edited.
Here a few shots I made just before the sun totally went down at the weir:

       

If you ever make it to Calgary and have no Bicycle at all, you can go down to the Eau Claire Center and rent one for a few bucks and hour. Then just follow the Bow towards NE direction and you are going straight to the wonderful new weir they build there.

Take lots of water or juice with you as you ride to keep hydrated on very hot days and light fruity or veggie snacks. These provide you with extra liquid and are not heavy on your body as you still ride.

For all trips I always take my trusty compass with me and a map of the city, sometimes you just bike and bike further into some places you've never been and it helps a lot when you get lost.

Driving in a circle for hours let's you learn this lesson. More on map reading and basic compass reading will be discussed here soon. You don't need to spend 100 of $ for a basic and simple set at the beginning, but you can always upgrade if you want to.

JayDee