Monday, December 1, 2025

Weekly Round Up: Thanksgiving and A Second Chance

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this edition we'll talk about Thanksgiving and leftover management (nailed it!), dish on early retirement life, I'll grouse about how illness is messing with my workouts and sleep, and in reading I'll tell you about the DNF that I gave a second chance to with astounding results.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Provincial Flags I Have Known: A Rundown and Ranking

This post is the second installment on a topic that I never imagined that I would ever blog about: state flags.  Today we're going to cross the border and take a look at the provincial flags.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Weekly Round Up: A Walk in the Park

A weekly round up: early retirement life, eats, workouts, watches, and reads.

Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From Dial M for Murder to The Man Who Knew Too Much

Welcome to our fourth installment of The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch!  Today we're in the mid 1950s and still in the world of Hitchcock Greatest Hits.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Eight is Great: The Eighth Annual Weekly Eats Roundup

 


Once upon a time in November eight years ago, a recipe blogger decided to start writing a weekly post about what she was eating, her workouts, what she was watching on TV, and what she was reading.  After a year, the blogger decided to write an annual round up post with the best of the year, which became known as "Birchwood New Year".

And so it continues...

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Weekly Round Up: Since We Last Talked


A semi-weekly round up: early retirement life, eats, workouts, watches, and reads.

Well friends, since we last talked, everything came to pass.  My last day of work was October 31st, and the only snag to my plan to walk my laptop down to FedEx at 3:00 is that my boss scheduled our exit interview for 3:30.  So I walked it down at 3:50!

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From The Wrong Man to The Birds

Hey friends, we're back with the second installment of The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch.  Last time we talked about his final five movies, which are not well known.  Today we're doing the opposite and talking about the next-to-last five movies, which is a list packed with Greatest Hits.