Janis, Michael's mom, granddaughter Hazel and son Michael in downtown Ottawa.
We went to visit Charlotte, our granddaughter, at Occupy Ottawa.
Charlotte looking very serious, eating a bagel. We took down a bag of bagels for the people protesting there.
Janis and Michael.
Anthony, Hazel, Michael and Janis.
We went for a walk/hike in the Gatineaus. Hazel up in a tree.
Grandpa Anthony, looking like an international spy.
Hazel jumping.
Leaves keep falling on my face.
A road trip through the Gatineau. Look at those colours.
Some woman and Ross and me, from the Women's Institute on Amherst Island. They have adopted a piece of highway on #133, on the mainland, and we were out cleaning up the litter along the road.
Anthony and I took a road trip to Prince Edward County and went to two cheese factories, Black River and Fifth Town, and saw lots of beautiful country side. This is a poster at "Fifth Town" Cheese factory. They sell goat and sheep cheese. They cure their cheese in tunnels made under the ground instead of using refrigeration. They also have a wind mill and solar panels and are nearly off the grid. Yeh!!!!
Up at Lake on the Mountain, above the Glenora Ferry. What a view? We used to sail down through these straits and bays when our boat was in Canada.
The Hallowe'en Party at Amherst Island Public School. Who are these monsters? I'll tell at the end of the blog.
Some gorgeous Island ladies. Kelvin and Duncan.
Back Beach on Amherst Island.
Children's Art displayed and created at Stella's Cafe'. This one was drawn by our grand niece, Heike.
More Children's Art.
For October and November when the Cafe' was closed and the trailer was too cold to sleep in we spent a lot of time at my sister, Joan's, and her husband, Dan's, farm. Thanks guys for putting up with us. To keep us in shape, to keep us active and to make more pasture for the beef cattle we bush hogged the perimeters of a few fields and then stacked sticks and wood to be burnt in the winter. It's a beautiful farm and great to have an purpose to be outside. This is Anthony picking up stix.
This is one of the fields we were working on. Dan has been busy setting up deer blinds and making trails. I have really enjoyed reading in the Deer Blinds and bird watching. Way up in a tree....quiet...lots of bird and insect sounds and fields and brush and birds to look at.
Me, picking sticks.
Mark and Cherry, owners of Foot Flats Farm had a burning of the effigy (is that how you spell it?), a Guy Fox night. It's so much fun. Lots of great people, delicious chili and homemade bread and a huge bonfire with a coyotes tail on a dummy on top of the wood. The coyotes are bad news where the sheep are concerned. They will kill a sheep far too often and not even eat all of it, only it's facial cheeks. It's so disgusting. This is Mark here in front of the bonfire he's the sheep farmer.
Dan, Joan and Anthony in front of the bonfire.
This is the beginning of the bonfire.
This is when it's really getting going.
After the bonfire they had fireworks. The horses got upset and were running like crazy up and down their corral. It was a fun evening.
Back to Ottawa to say goodbye as we are planning to leave for Freeport on the 21st. Michael and Hazel at the top of a ski hill in the Gatineaus. We walked up that hill. I was sure puffing.
Rebecca and Hazel.
Michael, Rebecca, Hazel and Anthony.
This is a ti pi that was in the Gatineaus. I used to own a ti pi that I bought from a man in the Yamnuskas, in Alberta, that was blind. He showed me how to put it up and then tied it on to the top of my van. I gave it to the Boy Scouts after I came to Ontario and now I wish I had it back. Oh well. That's me in the door way.
Rebecca and Michael and Hazel had Christmas dinner for us, since we won't be back for Christmas this year. This is a Tofurkey. They are vegetarians. It's a turkey, so to speak, made out of tofu, rice, mushrooms, veggies and spices wrapped in a puff pastry and shaped like a turkey, so to speak. It was delicious.
Rebecca, Michael and me basting the Tofurkey.
