What are /r/newfoundland's favorite Products & Services?

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Yup, this is Mary Brown's 'tater spice.'

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It comes in on the delivery truck in much larger tubs, with no logo or design or anything, because it's being used in a restaurant. But on the tub it says "Lawry's Seasoning Salt"

I just bought my own clipper on amazon and after some practice I can use different clipper length attachments to give myself a haircut that looks like it was cut by a barber. For beginners just use one length for your entire head, you literally can’t screw it up b’y. It’ll pay for itself in no time.

I bought this kit:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B008MDLJDO/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_vf-6EbZDRH66A

Yeah because when I need important medical advise, I turn to a 10 year old blog written by an author with an acupuncture degree.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in-depth/ssris/art-20044825

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9571651/

Oh my, even moderate hiking suggestions is going to be a long list. My suggestion is to purchase a book called “Hikes of Eastern Newfoundland”. I’ve included a link:

https://www.amazon.ca/Hikes-Eastern-Newfoundland-Mary-Smyth/dp/1927099722/ref=asc_df_1927099722/?

This book has I believe 86 of the most popular trails. Of course there are many other smaller / less known trails that are just as scenic. The best part of the book is that it includes maps of the trail (greater detailed water proof maps can be purchased from the East Coast Trail Association).

If you are planning on exploring Central and Western Newfoundland there is also a companion book called “Hikes of Western Newfoundland”.

Western Newfoundland has Gros Mourne which is infamous for its world class scenery, hiking, and mountain terrain. A hikers paradise and has trails suitable for all levels of hiking experience.

hiddennewfoundland.ca is another website I would suggest you take a look at. It contains information and locations of visible shipwrecks, plane crashes, abandoned military infrastructure, abandoned buildings, villages, and other interesting hiking experiences.

I’m an experienced hiker and have hiked a lot of the above. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

There’s an interesting guidebook on Newfoundland geology if you plan on hunting for geological sites of interest.

Plus, the Johnson Geocentre in St. John’s is a geology-based museum in an underground building in Signal Hill, I’d check that out for sure.

I've found that white noise is better at drowning out voices/snoring/cat meowing etc. than ear plugs. I just run a fan in my room at night, but there are white noise machines at Bed, Bath & Beyond, or you can run something like this on your computer all night: Tin Roof Rain Noise Generator.

How is that? I'm not saying it's going to hit us. I'm saying it could be a thing based on what Accuweather is showing. Better to be prepared than oblivious

Edit: I forgot to actually put that link in the post. Wops. Accuweather forecast

You probably had a local anesthetic. She obviously had a General anesthetic. Which WILL make you act exactly like that, and generally messes you up for awhile after you wake up. My experiences are pretty similar to the way she acts.

See: 'David goes to Dentist' on youtube. Also: "Most people are confused in the recovery room as a result of the medications. It takes a while for the brain to actually wake up, even after you are conscious. Most people don't remember much after the preop sedative has been given, But some people remain confused for days or weeks." from: http://hubpages.com/hub/Common-Anesthesia-Side-Effects

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs Right here, the Kan Academy is free online schooling, it is some of the most comprehensive online classes you can get online. Give it a shot. It could change your life.

Things to do/see

Places to Eat

I recommend getting out on the water at least once, either boat tour or sea kayaking. Stan Cook Sea Kayaking is amazing, do the 4 hour trip if you can handle it (There's also a 2.5 hour trip which is great but you wont see quite as much), you're guaranteed to see some great wildlife.

That's me in my happy place. Scale.

Reddit silver for anybody who knows where this is.

Are you driving?

If you're taking a car and just don't want to go through the expense of a full roof rack, you can often get cheap kits for tying a kayak to your roof. Normally it's just a couple sponges and some straps.

Something like this: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003EET2OE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_i_NWWSZ9ESZV1VX121S22H

My father gave me a similar one. Think he might have gotten it at Princess Auto or Canadian Tire.

Yep! They offered a modem that had built in wifi and another that didn't.

The latter had better reviews and didn't use the problem chipset, but it meant that I had to get my own router.

Honestly, getting your own router is smart anyways. It gives you more control and you can choose to invest in a really good one if you want. You can scale it to suit your needs whereas if you use the built in one, you are stuck with what might be a piece of garbage. That's my issue with my Bell Fiber 300 right now.

I went fairly cheap on the router for now, but if it's no good I can get a better one. This is the one I went with

I realized once I started learning that there's a lack of good Newfoundland sheet music online, and pretty much no tabs for anyone new to the tin whistle.

I bought a couple song books and tried to transcribe some music into tabs as I'm learning stuff...I'm also a beginner, but you might be interested in some of the stuff I've started to put into tabs.

In a year's time maybe I'll have a fine collection. The Saltwater Joys and Feller From Fortune tabs are particularly easy and fun to play. Also I transcribed a full version of Cocerning Hobbits on tin whistle from watching someone play it on Youtube!

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1548E1A6F1839105!9976&authkey=!AFIoxAxsQqo0-YQ&ithint=folder%2c

https://www.amazon.ca/Hereford-Corned-Beef-3-Pack/dp/B07FLF5V6T/ref=asc_df_B07FLF5V6T/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292982405406&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18379161986153069063&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvd...

This is what's normally referred to as corned beef in NL.

Starlink is 1000x better than DSL.

I'm a network engineer. The biggest issue with Starlink is their slightly dodgy use of Carrier grade NAT. I suspect they'll fix it eventually (because it's a ground problem, not a satellite problem). They're still building out their terrestrial transport network so they're kinda "immature" in that regard.

In its current incarnation, Starlink is basically a really tall signal repeater. In NL, your dishy bounces a signal off whatever sat happens to be overhead at any given time. It goes terrestrial on Duffy Place in St. John's and is backhauled via fiber to New York (60 Hudson *I think*). They then do carrier grade NAT (CGN) on everyone's connection (basically the same thing your home router does but on a grander scale) and put you on the internet. Right now, they've got some deal with Google for backhaul services so Google is providing their connectivity to other networks.

In my experience (I've been using it mostly exclusively for about 2 months) it's the CGN portion they need help with. There's a fix though. Use a VPN. Get a home router that lets you tunnel everything via EasyVPN or NordVPN, set that up and let-er-rip. I've found the ping times and throughput much more stable and long lived TCP connections don't get torn down. (a result of over-aggressive NAT reaping). I sign into a NordVPN server in New York and things are way better. You also get the other advantages of a VPN. (Place shifting, privacy, etc.)

Here's a map for the "Greymans beard". https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/canada/newfoundland-and-labrador/beachy-cove-hill

The dominion of Newfoundland never adopted the statute of Westminster according to wiki on the matter: "The Dominion of Newfoundland never adopted the Statute of Westminster, especially because of financial troubles and corruption there."

Also according to britannica:
"Internationally, it connoted the recognition of the dominions (except Newfoundland) as separate states, entitled to separate representation in the League of Nations and other international bodies, to appoint their own ambassadors, and to conclude their own treaties. At the same time, the dominions were not considered to stand in the same relation to the United Kingdom or among themselves as foreign countries. "

The portion in parenthesis is of particular note as is the second sentence

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Westminster_1931

http://www.britannica.com/topic/dominion-British-Commonwealth

This document was put together by my Aunt who has been researching my family history for quite some time.

It's insane to think how young he was, and how young most of those who enlisted were.

5'5", 120lb, 18 years 4 months old...

Amazon has 50 lbs on for ~100. Free shipping with prime.

https://www.amazon.ca/AmazonBasics-IR92007-50LB-Vinyl-Kettlebell-50lb/dp/B07F1RJ1JH/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=50+lb+kettlebell&qid=1642425355&sprefix=50+lb+ket%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-6

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Just checked it out, weather was pretty average for December. Mostly below freezing with the highest temps being between 0-5 degrees on about 1/3 of the days of the month.

Might have just been sunny and warm out that day. Who knows?

Can’t explain the snow. On the bottom of that page it says it was snowing almost every day. Unless it was snowing so little that it was consistently melting in the odd warm days.

It was a more community based economy back then. Local businesses could afford to commission a float. Also could have been the best pre-internet advertising you could get that time of year.

yeah i get it, but if you don't deal with them permanently they're just going to stay hanging around or become someone else's problem

https://www.amazon.ca/Trapper-T-Rex-Rat-Trap-Traps/dp/B0084X5ONI

a trap like this might be a better option than a traditional rat trap, you don't need to touch the rat to remove it just open it like a clothes pin over a garbage bin.

The daily rate may or may not look better in column format as it's discretely binned (e.g., the JH Portal). I've seen both approaches floating around, however so can't with confidence say if one is the accepted standard or not.

Good data! You may also like the new NL Covid Data portal..

-If you're in the St. John's area, you can get CBC and NTV ota for news. Plus NTV streams their news for free on their website. Don't bother buying an antenna, a simple coaxial cable with one end stripped works fine.

-When you say high speed do you mean Cable or DSL? You options will be more limited on DSL. Personally, I torrent everything, put it into an smb share on my desktop, then connect to the smb share using a Raspberry Pi hooked up to a TV running Libre Elec(basically Kodi).

-Q-Continuum still works pretty good for me on Kodi for stuff I can't be arsed to torrent.

-Cytube is pretty good if you just want background noise.

No problem at all. Download the IPTV smarters app. You can use firestick or for me, I've got an Android based tv (Hisense h78g series) and got the app through there.

Buy this: https://www.amazon.ca/Year-Best-10000-Movies-Reliable/dp/B08CT1J4G5/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=guru+iptv&qid=1637025255&sr=8-1

Get your username and password within 24 hours.

Log in and go. I've got bell 1.5gb five internet so no problem with streaming live tv. Get all the hockey games, anything on Netflix, prime or apple tv and a ton of movies. (English and international). It's really negated the need for other streaming services.

Hope this helps!

I'm from the State of Kerala in India and my nan had quite a few remedies.

1. Heat some coconut oil on low with cumin seeds, pepper. Let the oil absorb the flavours for a while but it shouldn't smoke. Apply to hair and scalp after cooling and wash off with a little shampoo after a couple of hours. Your hair will feel amazingly nourished.

2. Upset stomach? (Who hasn't heard of that in India lol.) Some Yogurt and Turmeric powder will soothe your tummy.

3. Acidity or Heartburn? - Have around 0.5 ml if mint oil (food grade kind of course) and dissolve it in a medium of your preference, milk or anything else that has a little fat in it. In India we have capsules of this known as Pudin Hara

I have not set foot inside a library in over 13 years, I read all my books digitally via apple books and google play books.

If you want to access your books online without paying, try this website https://libgen.is/ It has the digital version of just about any book you can imagine.

Get a magnetic poster hanger, 36" wide for $30 https://www.amazon.ca/Benjia-Magnetic-Hangers-Hanging-Artwork/dp/B07WBYL9PZ

My advice: you'll want a good way to study our dialect if ur in rural NL. I went for my first vacation to Cape Breton this summer and it's nice there as well, i didnt even know there is still an active railroad in canada so that was a nice part of my trip... Waking up to the ringing rr crossing bells and the train coming was very unexpected.

I wonder if Babylon/Telus health operates on NL, I've used it here for things like birth control and whatnot. It's partnered with the province so you don't pay anything and it's just a video call with a doctor

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.babylon.telushealth

There are a handful of field guides for local flora, fauna, and geology in NL that can be purchased online but are also widely available in most gift shops, outfitters, local businesses, etc. I’d say they’ll have them for sale at the National Historic Site or at Ocean Breeze Gift Shop in Port au Choix. I have several of them and really recommend them! The Visitor Centre (Rocky Harbour) and Discovery Centre (Woody Point) in Gros Morne National Park (about a 2h drive south from Port au Choix) should also have the information you’re looking for.

@ u/dougalg : If you have the CBC Listen app, you can bookmark the podcast show "Atlantic Voice w Angela Antle", then save and download for later listening.

Works for me. 🙂

Great thread, thanks for sharing!

I can recommend the app Reebee as pretty handy as well. It indexes a bunch of local flyers each week so you can look at them in one place AND search for items on sale. Very handy, especially if you might be limiting your trips out to just one place at a time and want to see where you will get the most bang for your buck. Not sure if it is on the iPhone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reebee.reebee

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Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steps.app.steps&utm_source=newfoundland&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1

iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/steps-discover-explore/id1449597018?mt=8