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

Nov 27th, 2011
by Wendy.
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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

Nov 22nd, 2010
by Wendy.
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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

Nov 8th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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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

Nov 1st, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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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

Sep 5th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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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

Mar 4th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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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 [...]

2009 in Review

Jan 5th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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This is late but we all need to deal with disappointment in our lives. Memorable events for 2009: Heading to Chicago Thanksgiving weekend freezing at the lake Freezing at the cabin in late April with snow on the ground Favorite books I read in 2009: The BLDGBlog Book The War by Ken Burns The Kennedys [...]

Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman

Nov 19th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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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 [...]

Christmas Gift Guide: My Wishlist (Christmas ideas for a father of two great kids)

Nov 16th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Update: 2010 Christmas Gift Ideas for All of the Men in Your Life by Wendy is now online. I do most of the Christmas shopping in our house which leaves Wendy to get my gift.  I generally update my Amazon.com wishlist and use their universal wish list button to create on central wish list for [...]

Survivorman

Oct 31st, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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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

Oct 24th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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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 [...]