In case my non-Canadian readers are not aware, this is Thanksgiving up here in Canada. It’s a time we usually gather with Tuffy P’s family each year, often at Tuffy’s dad’s cottage. I usually make up a Thanksgiving feast, which we enjoy in a beautiful… Read More
Thanks to my pal East Texas Red for sending along a link to a great set of photos of the Norfolk and Western Railway. Click on the images to see them large scale. Let’s have a little train song. Here’s Hank Snow singing the Wreck… Read More
I ask fellow residents of the Greater Toronto Area, can you remember a time when Highway 427 was not under constant construction? Not me.
This has been all over the news today. Politics. This is how we do it here.
Today, we were up at G. Ross Lord Park for the 2012 Starlight Walk for Smiles. Tuffy P and our friend Cathy were official walkers. The dogs and I were the support team. Here’s a short video from the beginning of the walk.
It’s our anniversary! Tuffy P (also known in some circles as Sheila) and I have been hitched for eleven years. I’m a very lucky guy! We’re off to a charity walk this morning for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Tuffy has walked 4 years in a… Read More
I’ve been under the weather most of the week. I may have been cranky from time to time during this period, and if I’ve been cranky toward you, sorry about that. I’m feeling much better today. I took a vacation day off work today, and… Read More
Feeling all tore down today, no energy, generally lousy. I took the afternoon off work and slept, only waking up because the cats wanted to be fed and decided the thing to do was create total feline chaos until I got up to do it.… Read More
It wasn’t bad enough they tagged birdhouses and garbage bins in Sam Smith Park this summer. Now they’ve tagged the water treatment plant. It isn’t the handsomest building around, but now it has these ugly scars. Do we see this graffiti as shining examples of… Read More
I arrived home from work today to find a package had arrived in today’s mail from Edmonton, a day early. You see I won a little raffle. I sponsored my friend Karen on the Run for the Cure, and she decided to hold a draw… Read More
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