Rainwater Rambling Archive

Chloe Chronicles 2

A few pictures of Chloe from during the week. She turned 10 weeks on Friday.

She loves her bucket.

Angela and Chloe.

Chloe playing frisbee with Angela or also known as chewing.

An action shot of Chloe running around the backyard in a frenzy.

Loki from next door trying to get a closer look at the furball running around.

Sometimes she poops herself out and plops down on the grass for a snooze.

Is she really asleep? or pretending?

Can you tell where she has been, perhaps the yellow petal from the black eye susan's gives it away.

Getting belly rubs from Claudia.

Chloe with her rawhide stogie.

Another of her favourite toys outside.

Grandma's Birthday

We had everyone over for a barbeque to celebrate Grandma's birthday. Here she is looking and listening to Claudia's scaaarry birthday card.

The grandkids on the ship for a photo.

I dug this photo out of the archives, it is from Claudia's pirate birthday party in June 2002.

Grandma and Papa with the grandkids.

The cousins hanging out.

Gillian chasing Chloe out of the back garden.

Claudia jumping off the swing.

Time for some cake.

Eric using the sticks to pick from the fruit tray.

Air Show

Gillian went down to the CNE Air Show on Saturday and she said it was really good. I was down at Spadina and Adelaide on Friday afternoon for a meeting and saw and heard them practising. Over the weekend we saw a few planes from our backyard, but I didn't get any pictures until Monday afternoon. Here is Fat Albert, the US Navy C130 Hercules that travels with the Blue Angels.

Here are the Blue Angels, they are like the Snowbirds. The Blue Angels are based out of Pensacola Florida.

A couple of fighter jets flew over the backyard as well. They were routing most of the commercial airliners to the south East-West runway during the airshow, so it was pretty quiet for most of the afternoon.

Last Day of Summer Vacation

After a longer than usual summer vacation the girls finally reached the last day of summer holidays. Angela and Claudia are looking forward to heading back to school to see their friends and find out who their teachers are. Gillian is a little nervous heading to her first day of high school.

Claudia hanging around with Chloe.

Chloe looking pretty relaxed about the first day of school. Her first day is on the 15th when she starts puppy training school.

Angela is so relaxed about school she can levitate herself.

Angela and Madyson bouncing on her trampoline.

Chloe ready to do some sweeping.

11th First Day of School

Today was Gillian's eleventh First Day of School. Everyone got off to school on time, Gillian got a ride with Sarah and Angela and Claudia walked with Madyson. I met the girls at school, just to see that they found their teachers and check the school council mailbox. Here are the girls out in front of the house. (Grades 9, 4, 6)

Here is the girls first day of school from 2004. It was the first time all three were in school, Gillian was in Grade 4, Angela was in Grade 1 and Claudia started JK.

And a Chloe picture from the first day of school.

A380

The world's largest passenger jet flies over a few times a week. Since June of this year the Emirates Airline A380 lands at Pearson on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it passes over around 3:30 in the afternoon. We get alot of the larger planes making their approach because the north E-W runway is the longest at Pearson. Here is the A380 from our backyard.

I found these photos on the internet.

Bath Day

Today was bath day for Chloe, I thought why not take her for a good run, get her tired out and then give her a bath. We headed over to the Meadowvale Conservation Area not far from the house. The girls found a sloth tree (a tree which allows them to hang like a sloth).

There was lots of open space for Chloe to run around. We stayed clear of the GINA picnic. GINA is short for "Greyhounds In Need of Adoption". It is an organization that tries to find homes for retired racing Greyhounds.

We stayed clear of the Hogweed. It looks like giant Queen Annes Lace, the sap is bad news if it gets on human skin.

We remembered there "use to be" a bridge to cross over the river.

It wasn't very nice down by the river, lots of broken glass and beer bottles.

We were teaching Chloe her name.

Some of the leaves are starting to change already.

We found another path to the river and when Claudia stepped towards it, the ground moved. It was a garter snake that freaked her out. Later I started stopping on the ground and he started to slither away.

Claudia poking around for more snakes.

Chloe was tired out after our walk, she decided she was going to lie down in the shade.

The girls with Chloe.

We headed back home and started to get her bath ready. It wasn't her favourite thing, she looked like the drowned rat.

Here she is shaking away in the backyard. She looked pretty good afterwards.

Of course she was rolling around in the rocks and grass as soon as she got the chance.

Rick Mercer Report

I was able to get tickets for the Rick Mercer Report this year. Susan and I are going down for the taping in November, it will be for the show that will air on November 17th. Looking forward to the show.

Cockapoo Humour

It's been a busy week for the family, I just finished giving a 2 day workshop to six of our regional inspectors on our air and precipitation sampling program. It the third workshop I have put together this year for various sampling programs. The last time I gave this one was 3 years ago, so I was a little rusty, but it turned out well.

Susan had a night meeting yesterday and had to miss the first night of Chloe's puppy lessons. The girls and I went and Chloe did well. When it came time for free play, they let the puppies off the leash and they can play with each other. The other six dogs were running around the room and ours sat by our feet.

Tonight was our first School Council meeting of the year and it looks like I'll be Chair again this year. When I told them I would probably not be able to make the next meeting in October, the principal was more than willing to set the next meeting by my schedule. October will be a busy travel month for me, I have trips to Saratoga Springs, NY; Island Falls, SK; Chapais, QC; and Nashville,TN all in a span of about 6 weeks. Hope Chloe has some room in the dog house for me.

This little cartoon originally was sent to us in the mail by Aunt Gert, and a little digging on the Internet found the on-line version. The timing was perfect for us. Thanks! Aunt Gert.

Outdoor Movie Night

What was planned for a few weeks ago as a back to school/end of summer event , finally came together. Our next door neighbour Lars and I wanted to put together a barbeque and movie night for the girls. We started with a barbeque in Lars and Julie's backyard. That is Lily in the middle, looking for a handout.

Here are the girls with Mady and Sarah.

A little bit of excitment after Chloe fell through a hole in their deck. They have cutouts in the deck for a cedar tree and when she was playing with Bella she fell through and disappeared.

Once it got dark, we moved to the front and set-up the projector and screen that I had borrowed from one of the guys at work.

We watched "17 Again". It turned out well, other than the odd plane going overhead. By the end of the movie, the temperature had dipped, it would have been a lot warmer back in August. The kids all had blankets. There were about 20 of us there for the movie. If we get an Indian Summer, we'll try and do another one.

Chloe's Cousins

We headed out to Hamilton to Lori's to introduce Chloe to Mickey and Nike.

Chloe getting the once over by Mickey and Nike.

Chloe ducking from a left hook.

Later on Barney showed up, he is Dale's Moms dog. You can see Chloe hiding out under Angela's legs.

Claudia with all four dogs.

Mickey.

Nike.

Chloe's Invisible Shield

Chloe seems to think that her bed has an invisibility cloak around it. Whenever she grabs something that she shouldn't have she runs to her bed. Here she is with one of Claudia's stuffed animals.