Yesterday Christine and I took the ferry to Wolfe Island and rode our bikes out to the beach. It was 10km each way, and maybe a couple more kilometers of hiking along the path to the water. We had a really nice afternoon of swimming and relaxing in the sand. The water level was much higher than I’ve ever seen it there. I took lots of movies instead of pictures with my camera, but they didn’t turn out very well. Maybe I’ll edit some of the better ones and make a short one or two minute montage.
After work today I bought myself a guitar. I got the cheapest one at the store that wasn’t made of plywood. It cost me a couple hundred dollars and I’m not sure if I can afford it with my student loan payments starting this month, but I figured I’ve got more money now than I will after I start making my payments. I’ve been feeling pretty restless lately and really wanted to start playing an instrument again. I was considering buying a keyboard, but I think I’d rather start with a stringed instrument. Maybe all those years of playing violin will make it easier to learn. I also bought book of guitar lessons and worked my way through the first one. Now I can play three notes and I have a blister on my finger!
I need to stop spending so much time on my computer.
This past weekend I spent a lot of time outdoors and my muscles are still kinda sore from it. On Saturday I went out hiking in the woods with a couple of strangers I met on the internet. (Hah. I couldn’t help being overly dramatic there. It’s okay though, they were geocachers.) We found a couple of geocaches in the Depot Lakes Conservation Area, one of which I’ve been keen to get to for about three years. Photos: swamp bridge, power lines, campsite, strangler vine, picnic futon.
On Sunday Christine and I went for a bike ride on Wolfe Island. The weather was a bit smoggy and the ozone bothered my throat but it was nice to finally get out on my bike again. We rode along the route of the Wolfe Island Classic running race out to the Simcoe Island ferry, and I enjoyed watching the kilometer markers go by. One day I’ll get off my butt and enter one of those races. We passed by my favourite goat a couple of times (she’s as fat as always), and also stopped to visit a couple of horses.
My sister-in-law is due to have her baby in about 6 weeks. Both Gina and Little Angus (who’s name will likely be changed again before he is born) are doing well. When Peter came to visit for Christine’s and my birthday last week he showed us all the sonogram videos (including the 3D one), which I found very interesting. (I feel an inexplicable urge to add another parenthesized statement here. Of course Oscar, just stay here and watch the train.)
On my birthday I got to go to one of my favourite places in the world. My family already knows where this is, but there are a few geocachers and other random internet lurkers who read this blog. Can you guess where I mean? The X on my shirt is for Mac OS X (which baffles me, Kate Walker).
