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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd be more worried if random boxes from "ACME" started showing up as well.

🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Random observations of Madrid: magnificent city, great infrastructure for public transportation, walking, biking, & an incredible amount of parks & pedestrian spaces. Groceries generally much cheaper than NS, but restaurants less so. Beer extraordinarily cheap in shops, expensive in restaurants

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My best meal in Madrid so far at a Peruvian restaurant in the Mercado de los Mostenses: Arroz con mariscos, chicharrón des pescados, and ceviche. Tres beuno!

Arroz con mariscos, chicharrón des pescados, and ceviche. Tres beuno!

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Visited Tolèdo, Àvila, and Segovia today. Incredible places.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made a new buddy in Tolèdo today. He was the roundest night I could find. His name was Sir Cumference. He was happy I found his sword for him. And it was a double humdinger here today at 38c

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Visited El Retiro Park, appropriate as I’ll soon be “retiroed” myself. Gorgeous 32c in Madrid

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching the sun set as we eat our dinner and drink wine from the balcony

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big wing ding starting across the street: Europa FM 30th birthday apparently

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Checking out some real estate in Madrid. Gotta watch out for them knights on horseback though.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The trip is a combination celebration of my turning 60 and my impending retirement near the end of October.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’re half way thru 12 days in Madrid. Came mainly for Mahler concert the other day. Doing a day trip to Sevilla, Avila & Toledo on Wednesday. Otherwise just walking, exploring, eating and enjoying the great vibe of this city. And corker weather. 32 degrees next 5 days with low humidity

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Beautiful walk, followed by a 2 1/2 hour lunch and then a nap. I’m adapting to this Spanish lifestyle very easily

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Greatest musical experience of my life tonight at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España conducted by Kent Nagano: an amazing performance of the Mahler 2. Bravo!

Performers receiving a deserved ovation for incredible performance of the Mahler 2

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Chris Fogarty, PhD @cyclone-fogarty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On this day 30yrs exactly - 1996 Hurricane Hortense was on approach to Nova Scotia making landfall east of Halifax later that night. Streets in the Halifax area were strewn with tree debris including large limbs. Up to 150 mm (6") of rain was also measured (below). #nswx

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2026 is now a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season. There has never been a later date in the season without a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin, and with none on the horizon this record will extend further. All thanks to El Nino.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Found this epic Bob Ross as a cat t-shirt on a recent thrifting adventure. My new fave

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Been a busy week for wildlife in my backyard near downtown Dartmouth

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Damn you, Reaper, you took the wrong 80 year old.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Check out some of the tracks on “Fire in the Kitchen”, a compilation album of east coast artists with the Chieftains

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A prequel to the Jason Bourne series covering his childhood. Call it "The Bourne Born"

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

WeatherCAN is the official ECCC app that I recommend. Good radar imagery and also displays lightning strikes

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gorgeous day for a bike ride to Lawrencetown Beach

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Phew. Like Satan’s armpit outside today.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Have determined we have a pair of nesting northern cardinals in one of the trees near our yard. Are seeing the same male and female multiple times each day. Here’s momma on one of my tomato cages

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Made nachos on the barbecue topped with beef barbacoa that I made last week. They got snarfed down before I could even think of taking a picture

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And that concludes our kick ball festival. Thank you all for your participation and support

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Taken in my backyard today - a cardinal in a cherry tree (not the same as a partridge in pear tree)

A red northern cardinal perched in a cherry tree

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Apparently the rodeo clown costume was already taken

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Looks like Mr Dressup has been rummaging through the Tickle Trunk again

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not sure if I believe in karma, but that result would be good evidence for it. Well done, Belgium 🇧🇪

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One of the top 3 hottest days ever at my place in Dartmouth. Air temperature peaked at 34.2, humidex at 43.8. Feels like Satan’s armpit outside

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Beautiful blue heron spotted during my bike ride along salt marsh trail today

Great Blue Heron standing near a shoreline

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hope there’s not a lineup, aka a barber-queue 😉

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I finally had to quit my job as a triangle player in the orchestra. It was just one ting after another.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The Indian restaurant offered me a bread-based appetizer, but I decided to pass. It was a naan-starter.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So tragic. My condolences on this terrible loss

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