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2011 Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Husband/Boyfriend/Men in Your Life

It’s Wendy again and I am pretty lucky as Jordon does all of the Christmas shopping in our family and over the years he has created some incredible gift guides for his website which have generated a loyal following.  I traditionally write the Gift Guide husbands/boyfriends/fathers and this year I get to kick off the [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for your Husband / Father / Boyfriends (all of the men in your life) | 2010 Edition | Guest Post

It’s Wendy and I keep telling Jordon that he needs to stop leaving the password for his blog login laying around and he never listens to me.  As he said, “Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes and nothing bad happened.”  Well what happened is that I am posting a gift guide for what to [...]

2010 Christmas Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman

In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside.   Check out the other 2010 Christmas gift ideas that have been posted this season.  More coming soon. Fujifilm FinePix XP10 | The FinePix XP10 is a four-proof digital cameras – [...]

Christmas gift ideas for your tween boy | 2010 edition

Mark is now ten which makes him officially impossible to buy Christmas gifts for.  He is too old for kids stuff and too young for adult things.  We have tossed around hundreds of ideas for Mark and here are a bunch of ideas that we thought could make your Christmas shopping a little easier this [...]

Les Stroud’s Beyond Survival

As long time readers of this blog know we as a family are big fans of Survivorman as well as Les Stroud’s other projects so it should come as no surprise that we sat around and watched Beyond Survival tonight.  We hadn’t even gone by the opening credits before I said, “we may as well pre-order [...]

Man dies in northern Ontario

From the Globe and Mail Police have found the body of a Toronto man who wanted to test his survival skills in the woods north of Huntsville, Ont. Richard Code was an avid follower of the television show Survivorman and had taken few supplies on what was to be a weekend trip. His brother, Stephen [...]

Personal Safety Kits

Driving back and forth to Spiritwood a couple of times a week over a decade meant that I went through a lot of bad weather and really dangerous driving conditions.  While I had some extra clothes and a some basic car equipment with me, if we had hit the ditch in a bad spot, it [...]

Last Week at Jordon Cooper Outfitters

Wendy gave me a copy of Les Stroud’s book, Survive! for Christmas.  I posted a quick review of it over at the Outfitters.  It was a great gift!  Thanks Wendy. If you have never tried a pair of noise cancelling headphones, I found a pair that will let you experience what you have been missing [...]

Guest Post: Christmas Gift Ideas for the Brother In Law

This is Wendy and this is what happens when Jordon doesn’t log out of his weblog and leaves me unattended.  Since Jordon handles most of our Christmas shopping, I don’t have to spend as much time thinking about Christmas gifts as Jordon does.  By far the hardest person to shop for on our Christmas list [...]

Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman

In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside.   Check out the Christmas gift ideas category if you are looking for other Christmas Gift Guides. Straight from the Leftorium, the MEC Left Handed Slingpack.  Wendy has had a slingpack [...]

Survivorman

Well Mark went Halloweening as Survivorman tonight.  I am not sure where the idea came from (other than we watch the show around here every night on OLN but then again, he didn’t ask to go as Jason Hawes or Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters).  We went over the Dollarama and got him an appropriate [...]

Survivorman

I watched my first episode of Survivorman last night which had Les Stroud taking shelter in Taroka Arm, Alaska.  He was cold, hungry, and battled hypthermia.  He did manage to make a nice shelter but then almost killed himself by starting himself on fire.  The title refers to the host of the show, Canadian filmmaker [...]