2009-05-11
Busy Weekend
Happy Birthday Sonya..... Happy Mother's Day Mom....... Happy to be home.
Shortly after we arrived home to Walkerton in April, Sonya called and asked if we would go into Toronto to visit her on her birthday, May 9. As May 10 was Mother's Day and a doctor's appointment was made for me on the 8th (just one of those routine tests) we decided to go for the weekend leaving Thursday afternoon. As we were in Burlington we met our friends Chris, Tina and son Dave for dinner (we were happy to hear that 15 year old Dave wanted to come and see us --- read that as talk to Ed about computers).
I can remember when I was at least that much taller than Dave ..... Ok it was a long, long time ago. At 6 foot 4 and 1/2 inches Dave is taller that his mom and dad and a foot taller than me.
Toronto was it's normal large city self, lots of traffic, a Tamil protest (we were in the area but only saw the police presence), and the usual number of interesting characters including a 6 foot 200 lb (guessing) fellow dressed for a Saturday night on the town --- hat, bright red lip stick and a red party dress with enough of a crinoline that the skirt stuck out at a 45 degree angle. Ed, Sonya and I enjoyed some gourmet pizza for lunch (yummmm), a trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario and dinner at one of our favourite restaurants --- Little Tibet, which was wonderful as always.
A couple of days prior to our visit Sonya was surprised to see that she had a new balcony mate. A Morning Dove had decided to nest in one of her flower boxes. According to information on the Internet this is normal behaviour.
Sonya's other room mate, so far Quill hasn't noticed the dove.
The Art Gallery of Ontario has had some major renovations with one of them being a facade added to the front of the building. We like this change a lot better than the one they did the Royal Ontario Museum.
The inside of the new facade is a beautiful, warm, sunny spot. During our visit to the art gallery we saw some interesting pieces. One painting by Salvador Dali was either a fruit bowl with a face on a sandy beach or a dog on a beach ---the piece kept you looking to see what else you could see. Our eyes were feeling happy when we left as we had spent some time viewing our favourite artists include the Group of Seven and Monet.
Ed and Sonya.
Today it was back to reality ---- I'm trying to whip my vegetable garden into shape so I can get it planted. As we've had frost the past two nights it's still to early for plants but I could get some of the seeds planted.
Shortly after we arrived home to Walkerton in April, Sonya called and asked if we would go into Toronto to visit her on her birthday, May 9. As May 10 was Mother's Day and a doctor's appointment was made for me on the 8th (just one of those routine tests) we decided to go for the weekend leaving Thursday afternoon. As we were in Burlington we met our friends Chris, Tina and son Dave for dinner (we were happy to hear that 15 year old Dave wanted to come and see us --- read that as talk to Ed about computers).
I can remember when I was at least that much taller than Dave ..... Ok it was a long, long time ago. At 6 foot 4 and 1/2 inches Dave is taller that his mom and dad and a foot taller than me.
Toronto was it's normal large city self, lots of traffic, a Tamil protest (we were in the area but only saw the police presence), and the usual number of interesting characters including a 6 foot 200 lb (guessing) fellow dressed for a Saturday night on the town --- hat, bright red lip stick and a red party dress with enough of a crinoline that the skirt stuck out at a 45 degree angle. Ed, Sonya and I enjoyed some gourmet pizza for lunch (yummmm), a trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario and dinner at one of our favourite restaurants --- Little Tibet, which was wonderful as always.
A couple of days prior to our visit Sonya was surprised to see that she had a new balcony mate. A Morning Dove had decided to nest in one of her flower boxes. According to information on the Internet this is normal behaviour.
Sonya's other room mate, so far Quill hasn't noticed the dove.
The Art Gallery of Ontario has had some major renovations with one of them being a facade added to the front of the building. We like this change a lot better than the one they did the Royal Ontario Museum.
The inside of the new facade is a beautiful, warm, sunny spot. During our visit to the art gallery we saw some interesting pieces. One painting by Salvador Dali was either a fruit bowl with a face on a sandy beach or a dog on a beach ---the piece kept you looking to see what else you could see. Our eyes were feeling happy when we left as we had spent some time viewing our favourite artists include the Group of Seven and Monet.
Ed and Sonya.
Today it was back to reality ---- I'm trying to whip my vegetable garden into shape so I can get it planted. As we've had frost the past two nights it's still to early for plants but I could get some of the seeds planted.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 7:53 AM 
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