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I bought some rice balls at J-Town. This was the plum version.
You open it up and the nori and it is separated from the rice.
If you pull down on a strip it open right up and you can fold the rice ball into it.
It has a little bit of plum, but it could use more. Each one cost $1.50.
Some of trees, a little confused by the crazy weather we have had in recent weeks. Here are some of the early buds encased in ice from the storm on the 24th.
Angela hit a milestone birthday this year. She can vote and buy lottery tickets!
We had Grandma and Grandpa out for dinner and cake to celebrate their birthdays. Here they are blowing out the candles.
Work had me out to British Columbia this past week. A colleague and I had to get some of the equipment back up and running after some recent problems. We lucked out with the weather, there was some rain when we were crossing on the ferry Monday and a little bit early Tuesday morning, but the rest of the week was mostly sunny.
Shanna had some time off and was planning to go to Abbotsford, so when she heard I was coming, she planned her route via Saturna Island. It was good to see her.
This is the Four Winds B&B that we were staying at, it sits right on the water.
Before we headed to dinner on Wednesday we took in East Point. The island in the middle of the photo is a hangout for sea lions, seals, and bald eagles. It is about 200m offshore. This is an old fog alarm building.
Here are some of the sea lions (Otariinae), the grey mounds in the foreground are the seals. (Click on photo to enlarge)
There were two bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) on the island as well. (Click on photo to enlarge)
With the tide out there were lots of purple sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus).
Some of the seals (Phoca vitulina) in the water.
There was a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) sitting on the building.
As we got closer to the hawk on the building, it took off and landed in a nearby tree.
These were Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula).
We just missed the sunset by the time we got to the pub for dinner.
The next morning was clear so there was a nice sunrise.
The sun rising over Tumbo Island with Mt Baker in the background.
Waiting for the ferry back to Swartz Bay.
The ferry from Saturna Island to Mayne Island wasn’t that busy.
Leaving Saturna Island behind, the last time I was there was 4 years ago, hopefully it isn’t as long until the next trip.
We had to transfer at Mayne Island.
We got back to Vancouver Island and had dinner in Sidney at Shabai Thai, it was delicious. Shanna stayed with me in Sidney before catching an early ferry back to the main land Friday morning. I had an early flight back to Toronto.
Found this video on YouTube of two guys eating a umeboshi for the first time. I laugh everytime I watch it.
Congratulations to Angela, her Senior Girls curling team won the ROPSSAA Curling finals last Monday. Here is a photo of Angela with Jordyn (they were at the same babysitter and went to St Richard’s) who was on the other team. Due to some fortunate reason, both teams in the ROPSSAA finals were going to OFSAA.
Angela left this morning until Thursday. The OFSAA finals are in North Bay this year. Good luck to Angela and her team!
I was in Stephenville, NL last week for work, it was my first trip this calendar year. Getting there was no problem, getting back was another story. I was scheduled to fly back from Deer Lake on Thursday afternoon, through St John’s. The storm that went through Toronto on Wednesday, came through Thursday morning with the same snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and then rain. My flight out of St John’s had already been delayed before I got to the Deer Lake Airport, when I checked in, they re-routed me through Halifax instead.
I was able to get to Halifax with no problem, which was good since my flight from Deer Lake to St John’s had been cancelled shortly after I landed. Halifax was pretty busy, I have never seen so many colours on the arrival/departure screens.
I headed to the lounge to wait for my 17:20 flight, only three hours. Eventually my flight was slowly being delayed and eventually cancelled. It turned out that the weather (winds) in Toronto were wreaking havoc in the other airports. There was a hold on all incoming flights until 16:30, anything that hadn’t left their airport of origin were being held. I was able to get booked on another flight for 20:30, originally they tried to re-book me for Friday morning. The incoming flight arrived so I headed down to the gate. The screens were still about the same.
The plane left the gate about 30 minutes late and I arrived at YYZ by 22:15 and eventually in the front door by 23:00. In the end only 5.5 hours behind schedule.
Here is a photo of one of the intersections in Stephenville, note the single traffic light for all four directions. This year is the 50th anniversary since the US closed the Air Force base.
I was meeting with a colleague from St John’s, we made a visit to one of his weather stations down in Burgeo, which was about a 2 hour drive from Stephenville.
We headed downtown on Saturday morning, Susan, Angela and Gillian headed to Originals on Queen Street to go Prom dress shopping. Claudia and I went to the McDonalds on the north west corner of Queen/Spadina. They have a second floor with windows looking down onto the intersection. One of the new streetcars, it has four sections to it.
We were most amazed at the drivers getting out and having to switch the track if they were turning onto Queen or heading south on Spadina. Here is a driver switching the track. Only about 70 percent of the TTC streetcar switches are electronic. Eventually there was a dedicated switcher standing at the intersection.
It only took an hour for the girls to find a dress for Angela. From there it was up to Xam Yu for lunch. We had noodles, crispy beef, shrimp balls, mussels in black bean sauce, and cantonese chow mein. As always it was delicious.
The corner of Dundas and Spadina, it was busy, probably because the weather was so nice out. What a change from a week ago when it was in the -20’s, Saturday’s temp were around plus 12.
Congratulations are in order for Gillian on getting a co-op job with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada this summer. Thanks for Grandma and Papa for driving her to the interview last week. The job is in Vineland.
Angela received another university offer, this one is from the University of Guelph in the Bachelor of Science Human Kinetics program.
Claudia received all A’s on her first semester report card. Another job well done!
