Trilobite

I took Michael and Banjo to Guelph, Elora and Toronto this weekend. We visited with my university friend, Cheryl in Guelph. She and Dave were so nice to put up with us overnight. I originally wanted to leave Friday night, but work and weather did not allow it. So we did lots of driving approx. 800km in two days. My main focuses of the weekend were to spend time with Cheryl and Dave, enjoy the Guelph area and go to the One of a Kind Shop in Toronto.

Fortunately, we did manage to squeeze in quite a few things in between the car rides… 1) Guelph’s great Saturday morning farmers market with interesting stalls, 2) Elora’s mill, gorge and quarry, 3) Tasty breakfast chez Dave et Cheryl, 4) Guelph site of history and interest, 5) Guelph’s selection of letterboxes and geocaches, 6) Toronto’s One of a Kind Shop and a tasty garlicy meal at John’s Italian Cafe.

I am glad Michael and Banjo are such good sports!

I carved this rubber stamp today. It is a Ceraurus milleri, the same species as the trilobite fossil Celine found on Wolfe Island a couple of months ago. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to go letterboxing in Guelph this weekend so I can use it. We have decided to make it our new “personal stamp.”

Celine’s parents and her uncle Don spent the past couple of days moving the shed to the other side of the yard. Uncle Don did the hard part using his truck, a chain, and a really big pulley. Here are some photos: before, during, after, and wide-angle.

Wow! I managed to get out of work to have dinner at Chez Piggy’s 19:00 ish…. It was a big gathering before Ma and Pa leave for Indonesia on Sunday. They will be gone until the end of January. A good meal of gambas, baby spinach salad, tasty, greasy noodles and wine. Yum! Those attending were: Ma, Pa, Uncle Don, Rheni, Steve, Simon, Evan, Mica, Michael and I.

This past weekend Celine and I spent lots of time outdoors. Saturday we drove up to Westport to do some geocaching on Foley Mountain, and yesterday we went exploring on Wolfe Island and found some interesting rock formations.

I have decided to start a blog. That’s short for “web log.” Apparently, blogging is a huge thing on the internet. You can even buy books at Indigo about how to write a good blog. Scary.