The perfect weather we’ve been having for the past few days has brought – it seems – everybody and their relatives to Hillside Beach. Cars Parked on the side roads for about a mile.

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The Idle Thyme Restaurant in Traverse Bay, Manitoba, will be open from 8:00 am until 7:00 pm on Monday ,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
and Friday and Saturday they will open at 8:00 am and close at 8:00 pm.

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I came across this interesting history for Hillside Beach the other day. I knew Harry Craig and knew that his sister Mrs. Williams owned land. I didn’t realize that there is more to the past of Hillside Beach.

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After 35 years our Pan Abode finally has some insulation!
I had a company from Niverville, Peak Exteriors, add an insulation layer. Steve and his team did a really good job there!
I am almost looking forward to winter, so I can find out how much of a difference the new insulation makes.

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As usual one of the first things I do, when I get back to my place is to get the water running.
I just don’t feel right starting the day without a proper shower.
Something wasn’t right. When I got inside I knew what it was. The pump hadn’t restarted. My new underground lines were still frozen!

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..below zero temperatures for close to three months now. On Friday there was a big pile-up on one of the Autobahns near Augsburg. There were 72 vehicles involved. Only the older generation remembers that snow and frost used to be normal for winter.
Manitoba at least seems to be having a winter with a lot less snow and higher temperatures than it used to.

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My SEO is always complaining that certain Typo3 domains are extreemly slow. First of all I deleted all the files in the directory typo3temp and all its subdirectories. Then I created indexes in MySQL. Still not good enough! The APC accelerator sounded good and the installation was supposed to be easy.

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To make the sitemap in Typo3 conform to our SEO expectations we created an individual page for each item. Then created yearly pages and put each item page below them accordingly. Afterwards we added a new sitemap to the yearly pages with a more.. button and a teaser image.

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