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Crazy Weather!

April 2, 2010
Old-Rainwater

Hope you got a chance to get out and enjoy the crazy temperatures, Mississauga reached 24.3 °C on Good Friday. Here is Claudia, her friend and Chloe hanging out on the front lawn.

Front yard

Chloe is enjoying the good weather, she has been especially interested in the birds. It must be the Cocker Spaniel in her.

Chloe

We headed out to Mom and Dad’s place on Good Friday. Chloe travels well in the car, her and Angela are ready to go.

Angela and Chloe

Chloe, Angela, Claudia

Sara and Brent brought Pretzel with them, so Chloe had someone to play with.

Chloe and Pretzel

Danny had the kids out at the park playing soccer. Claudia taking a break.

Claudia

Alex.

Alex

Things were going well until Danny stepped on Alex’s foot with his industrial soccer shoes.

Injury time

Here is Chloe telling Pretzel to wait his turn to look out Grandma’s window.

Buddies

Chloe telling Pretzel to hurry up and look out the window.

Pretzel

Hey wait a minute I think there is enough room on the stool for both of us.

Sharing

Chloe doing her wet noodle with Melissa.

Melissa and Chloe

Penn State Site Visit

March 31, 2010
Old-Rainwater

I was down in State College, Pennsylvania this week for work. University Park is an unincorporated community that sits within the borough of State College. Most of Penn State University is in University Park.

University Park map

We have a monitoring site at Penn State University. I’m suppose to go down twice a year to inspect the site, but usually my schedule only allows for one trip. The site itself is about 7 miles out of town on Pennsylvania Game Commision land. A couple of miles from the site is a shooting range, I drove by it this time, and it’s just bizarre seeing this shooting range with targets set up and people firing their handguns.

Penn State

State College is the main campus for Penn State. Beaver Stadium is home to the Big Ten Conference Nittany Lions.

Beaver Stadium

This was my ride down. With the government logos on the side of the car and my government passport, it makes for easier border crossings.

Vehicle

But it doesn’t make the lines any shorter.

Border

Earth Hour

March 26, 2010
Old-Rainwater

Did you participate in Earth Hour?

Earth Hour

Here’s how we spent our hour.

Angela

Angela had a couple of friends over from Guides for a sleepover. We actually had the cake before 8:30 pm and they were done before we turned the lights off. I think they played hide n seek in the dark for the hour. There were no bumps or bruises, so I guess it went well.

Angela

Chapman’s Rising From the Ashes

March 26, 2010
Old-Rainwater

This week I was out near Chatsworth for work, we are installing a new monitoring site at the Kinghurst Nature Reserve.

Chatsworth map

On the way back I went through Markdale, home of Chapman’s Ice Cream. Last fall they suffered a fire which destroyed their main production plant. Here’s what’s the Chapman’s plant looked like in July 2007 when we went to the Markdale Ice Cream Festival.

Chapmans

This is what’s left of it.

Chapmans

Chapmans

They are building a new plant in Markdale, currently they have a temporary mini-plant operating. So far we haven’t had any problems getting ice cream at our local Superstore. They had a good supply in their distribution centre before the fire to carry them through until they started the mini-plant.

Chapmans

This picture is from their website. Imagines rows and rows of ice cream.

Chapmans

Happy Birthday Angela!

March 24, 2010
Old-Rainwater

The day has finally arrived, after a countdown for the last month, Angela was up early this morning.

Angela and Chloe

This is cake number two, number three will come on the weekend when she has a couple of friends over from guides.

Angela

Angela

Busy Birthday Week

March 20, 2010
Old-Rainwater

It’s the start of birthday week for Angela and the end for G-ma and G-pa. We headed out to Scarborough for dinner and cake. First up was Grandma’s cake.

Grandma

Then Grandpa’s cake.

Grandpa

Emi having a good laugh.

Emi

And finally Angela’s cake.

Angela

Chloe liked looking out Grandma’s window.

Chloe

We’ll Miss Them

March 20, 2010
Old-Rainwater

It was a sad day for the girls and Chloe. Our long time caregiver to both the girls and Chloe was packing up their rental truck on Saturday morning. Karen has been looking after the girls since Claudia was 6 months old, Claudia turns ten in a couple of months. Karen has been coming over to let Chloe out in the mornings since last September, on some days Chloe would go over to her house for the day. Chloe will miss her buddy Hailey who she would bug when she was there.

Karen and the Girls

Who are we going to get our renovation ideas from. Karen and Ken have the same style house as us, and when they would change something, we could picture our house looking the same, kind of like having our own model home.They are moving to Milton, so they won’t be that far away. Thanks to Karen, Ken, Stephanie and Ryan for all their help over the years.

Hailey

Port Credit Walkabout

March 19, 2010
Old-Rainwater

We headed down to Port Cedit to walk around. Susan wanted to go shopping at a store down there so she dropped the girls and I off.

Map

The girls and Chloe enjoyed the swans.

Swans

Chloe was okay with the swans and ducks, it was the sea gulls hanging around that Chloe was after.

Chloe

I think Angela was taking a picture of the Toronto skyline.

Angela and Gillian

Claudia brought her bike to ride around and Angela had her roller blades.

Claudia

There was a guy feeding the swans and ducks some bread, actually he had a loaf of bread. He offered Claudia and Angela a slice, to feed the birds, not eat as Claudia would tell you.

Duck

Swan

Angela was trying to feed a dirty looking swan and manage to land the piece of bread on its back. We thought all the other birds would attack it, but it wasn’t until one tried that the swan shook it off into the water.

buffet Swan

Some of the fish painted on the bridge supports.

Salmon

The lighthouse down in Port Credit.

Lighthouse

Not sure if Gillian was pushing or trying to hitch a ride.

Angela and Gillian

Claudia was over at the Canada post.

Claudia

Gillian trying to keep up with Chloe.

Chloe and Gillian

We had a good day, the weather couldn’t have been better.

Susan and Gillian

March Break

March 18, 2010
Old-Rainwater

The girls were at Grandma’s and Papa’s place for a couple of days during March Break. They went to see Alice in Wonderland with Grandma while they were there.

Dundas

Angela relaxing on Grandma’s couch.

Angela

Gillian was able to hook into one of Grandma’s neighbours wireless signal.

Gillian

Glad They’re Over…Can’t Wait For The Next Ones

February 28, 2010
Old-Rainwater

The lack of blog updates through the end of February can be squarely blamed on the Olympics. Actually the lack of anything getting done around the house could be blamed on the Olympics. The girls really enjoyed them and were sad to see them go, okay so was I. Gillian wants to try curling next year at school.

Curling cartoon