Another recent trip to the used book store proved very fruitful for me, as these trips usually do. When there are books involved, I always manage to find something. Here's a look at what I found on this

For the last few weeks to maybe months, I've been reading an average of one book per week to week and a half. By the time I write a review on one book I about add another two to three to my backlog. All

I like cabbage rolls but I've never been good at making them. I've always struggled to roll them properly, so I typically do them a lazy way. I make them into a sort of cabbage casserole, layered like

As you may already know I collect a lot of vintage books. It started with one of my favorite childhood series, then a second, but it has since evolved pretty significantly since then. Nowadays I'm on the

My grandmother was very creative when she was alive. She had many different hobbies and enjoyed making crafts. She did a lot of cross stitch work and baking (as every grandma does). She also made these

Lonesome Dove was written in 1985 by Larry McMurtry. Its an 850 page Epic that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Its a classic western and one of my top books that I read this year so far. The story is set

About a year and a half ago we bought a set of six vintage Niels Moller Model 71 chairs on Facebook market place. Buying new, these chairs go for about $1000 CAD each, but we got all six of them for well

Have you ever watched one of those reels on social media where they do perfect latte art and make it look super simple? Well, I watch them regularly and think to myself "okay that looks super easy,

I'm getting behind in my book reviews. I've completed three books that I haven't posted about yet, one that I finished as far back as late June early July. I would throw them all into one large post but

Imagine a demon that possesses people through technology (social media, online chats, the news), it radicalizes them and then makes them decend into societal chaos and self destruction. Fanatics created

Been a while since I did a #Beersaturday post. These beer posts are becoming few and far between for me these days. I've barely drank any beer or alcohol this summer and the few beers that I did drink

Time for another random Leaky20 life update. Lets take a look at some of the random things that I've been doing the past month or two. Here we go! You might have seen in the news that Northern Ontario

My wife and I recently took part in an eight week cooking course hosted by a local chef who owns a restaurant near where we live. The course was for beginners and marketed towards home cooks. He also does

Sometimes you begin a book and know right from the first sentence that you're going to hate it. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was that book for me. It had nothing to do with the idea of a man being

Preamble My #Beersaturday posts have been lacking as of late. I've barely been drinking any alcohol these days and when I do have a beer its often something that I've already posted about. Its getting

We won't name names on who done it but not too long ago my main Miyabi cooking knife received a fairly large crack in its blade. Someone had been trying to cut a very large hunk of parmesan cheese, the

I completed another interesting book recently. It was called Angel Down by author Daniel Kraus. It was published in 2025, was named a New York Times 10 Best Books and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2026 in

Well, I've got one last data dump post in me from a trip that ended over a year ago now. This will be my last trip extras post about the Azores, I swear it. Come take a walk with me as I take you through

Every year for the past three years now, my cousin has been hosting an annual rib cook off competition on the Canada Day weekend. This year Canada day falls on the Wednesday so it wasn't a long weekend

Preamable I've been reading a lot of books in the horror genre lately. I never used to read horror but I stumbled upon a social media post that recommended a couple of them that sounded interesting so