I took a rare day off for the big day in 2024, the total solar eclipse. Amy had the day off as normal, and thankfully didn’t get called in last minute. Based on all the hyped up “states of emergency” some communities were declaring, we thought it would be a madhouse on the roads, but […]
Category Archives: Adventures
Christmas Baking with Mom Dafoe
Today we were off to Belleville to bake a billion or so cookies with Mom, it was quite an adventure. We baked sugar cookies, pudding cookies, apple cinnamon cookies and all sorts of others that I’ve already forgotten about. I broke a seemingly unbreakable bowl, and we had an interesting pomegranate and other fanciness salad […]
Visit with the Dafoes
We visited the Dafoe household to spend time with Mom and Dad on Father’s Day. We obviously got a super fun balloon and lots of pictures were taken and card games played. It all started as a random drive to Belleville and was intended to be a quick visit that ended up being hours long. […]
Amy’s New Computer
Amy just today finished building her new computer! I helped buy a couple of parts with my budget, but she purchased most of it through her portion of her personal budget. It’s a great big colourful machine with a Ryzen 5 5600G in it – it may even be a little faster than mine in […]
Christmas Slips, Slides and Crashes
So today started out as many recent Christmases have, with an early morning trek down Highway 7 towards Ottawa to visit my sister. What we totally ignored was the warnings of a pending rain/ice storm. In Peterborough it was basically fine, slightly above zero, rainy and dark, not particularly slippery and it seemed pretty consistent. […]
Out of town adventures and Shai Hulud
Today the clocks were pushed forward an hour and we got an extra hour of sleep – did we actually take it? Not at all, we were both up way too early, but we did get in a walk with Brocky in the morning, as well as some laundry. My main mission for the day […]
Honeymoon
For the past couple of days, we’ve spent some time out at Lake Edge Cottages near Lakefield and Young’s Point. It wasn’t the best weather for adventures, but it was pretty great weather for hiding indoors at a cottage. We opened gifts, and I made it so we had to delay opening them, only opening […]
Camping trip to Presqu’ile
Yesterday we got back from a whirlwind camping trip to Presqu’ile Park – it was quite a fun, short little adventure. We actually got an actual lakeside camping spot, with all the benefits and drawbacks that come from that – the wind noise on the first day/night was absolutely astonishing, it actually kept me up, […]
Early Spring?
The various groundhogs have spoken, and I think they’re saying an early spring is on the way. I’m sure they’ll be more accurate than the average weatherpeep. Wedding plans have been progressing – we are more or less completely committed to Shell Madden as officiant after meeting her at Denny’s in Napanee this past Saturday, […]
Adventures in O-Town
This weekend, Amy and I went on a trip to Ottawa to see the Senators take on the Canadiens – it was all sorts of different adventures wrapped into one 36-ish hour period. Drove up in a pretty dismal rain storm in unseasonably warm, spring-like temperatures Visited the National War Museum and attended all of […]