Monday, 13 June 2016

Busy Weekend

Garage sale season is upon us. It seems every weekend there's a garage sale somewhere. This last weekend Andree and I helped some friends to organize one. It was a busy time from Thursday afternoon to Saturday at 5 pm. Fortunately, we were blessed with a reprieve from the rain on Friday and only intermediate showers on Saturday so all in all, I'd say we were lucky and did good.

Today pretty much disappeared by the time I made a trip to town in the morning then returned home to jump on the computer and work at booking a flight for a summer trip to Quebec city, a process that only took about 3 hours or so. Groan!

This was followed by a second trip to town to chat about those same holiday plans with my travelling partner and to locate my Fitbit which I lost on my first trip to town. Yes, I lost it and yes, I found it. Thank goodness otherwise I might of had a fit of my own after having already lost my bluetooth earbud last week.

It was around 4:30 or so by the time Andree and I returned home. As we were getting out of the truck to come into the house, I said to Andree, "How about we go have a wiener roast at Winagami Provincial Park?"

"When?" she asked.

"Right now," I responded.

Andree grabbed a can of beans, wieners, buns and drinks, I grabbed lawn chairs, firewood and roasting sticks and fifteen minutes later, we were on the road. On the way to the lake I sent a text message to our friend Marcel asking him if he wanted to join us for supper. The three of us had a grand old time sharing laughs, stories, memories and a short walk together.




Uhm, uhm, there's nothing like a simple spur of the moment picnic surrounded by nature, good company and the crackling and smell of a campfire to revive the soul!

Monday, 6 June 2016

School Day Expressions

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning I see 5 or 6 students at 2 different schools for half hour individual sessions.

Last week I asked the students who have anger or fear issues to use a piece of modeling clay to express what the angry or fearful creature inside them looked like.

They were happy to display them in a photo shoot once that creature came out of them.





Aren't they something? What does your angry or fearful creature look like?

Look! No Wind!

And when there's no hurricane blowing guess what?

It's the perfect time for a bike ride. And today was it! I didn't ride as far as I would have liked to mind you but nevertheless, I got to mount up and head out and still managed to do 18 km or so.

Man, have I ever missed it. My butt hasn't mind you. Takes a little while for the butt cheeks to get used to that narrow little seat. It's all worth it though.

It's nice to slow things down via the much slower mode of transportation that walking or biking provides. It forces the mind to slow down too. And Lord knows, I sure do appreciate those quieter moments.

I really hope this beautiful weather sticks around for a while.
Went to town and visited a friend.

Cruising down the highway.

A little tricky taking a selfie while riding.