16/10: Catch Up Once Again.
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
I had good intentions of keeping the blog up to date and have failed already. Hopefully, once we are on the road I'll do a better job, well except for the first week or so when we'll be depending on campgrounds for Internet access.
Canadian Thanksgiving has come and gone. What a perfect weekend this year. My mom, brother and friends Louise and Les drove up from Burlington to spend the Sunday with us and help eat turkey with all the trimmings. The trees were in their full colourful glory giving them pretty scenery during the drive.
On the Thanksgiving weekend Saturday I had a fun experience of taking my friend Gwen to a store which is now near the top of her list of great stores --- maybe it's number one. Gwen is an avid quilter and sewer and yet had never been to a Len's Mill store. It was wonderful watching her face when finished walking past the miscellaneous goods area and step into the fabric section. There are at least 20 rows (each row is at least 20 feet long) of cotton and cotton polyester fabric, then there's the specialty fabrics and the upholstery fabrics, curtains fabrics, buttons, trims ..... well you get the picture. Gwen was very happy finding this store less than an hour from her home.
Zaph has been getting a lot of attention the last week or so as he's been wearing his sunglasses when we walk on a sunny day. He had his picture taken several times, was given cookies because he was so cute, told he was "too cool for school" and was the source of many laughs and smiles. The poor guy has an ulcer on his cornea and is getting eye drops to treat it so his eye needs protection when he's out in the sun. The ulcer appears to be healing and will hopefully be healed soon.
The town of Orangeville is approximately half way between Walkerton and Toronto so it was deemed a good meeting place for us and Ed's sister Sonya. A woman Sonya works with recommended The Greystones Inn --- very nice place and I would recommend it as well. Good food, good atmosphere, good service. Sonya started a new job at the end of September and was telling us all about it --- sounds like she's really enjoying it.
Canadian Thanksgiving has come and gone. What a perfect weekend this year. My mom, brother and friends Louise and Les drove up from Burlington to spend the Sunday with us and help eat turkey with all the trimmings. The trees were in their full colourful glory giving them pretty scenery during the drive.
On the Thanksgiving weekend Saturday I had a fun experience of taking my friend Gwen to a store which is now near the top of her list of great stores --- maybe it's number one. Gwen is an avid quilter and sewer and yet had never been to a Len's Mill store. It was wonderful watching her face when finished walking past the miscellaneous goods area and step into the fabric section. There are at least 20 rows (each row is at least 20 feet long) of cotton and cotton polyester fabric, then there's the specialty fabrics and the upholstery fabrics, curtains fabrics, buttons, trims ..... well you get the picture. Gwen was very happy finding this store less than an hour from her home.
Zaph has been getting a lot of attention the last week or so as he's been wearing his sunglasses when we walk on a sunny day. He had his picture taken several times, was given cookies because he was so cute, told he was "too cool for school" and was the source of many laughs and smiles. The poor guy has an ulcer on his cornea and is getting eye drops to treat it so his eye needs protection when he's out in the sun. The ulcer appears to be healing and will hopefully be healed soon.
The town of Orangeville is approximately half way between Walkerton and Toronto so it was deemed a good meeting place for us and Ed's sister Sonya. A woman Sonya works with recommended The Greystones Inn --- very nice place and I would recommend it as well. Good food, good atmosphere, good service. Sonya started a new job at the end of September and was telling us all about it --- sounds like she's really enjoying it.