This is the last day of February

And it flew by quickly! I managed to get a lot of work done today and even stayed till 5, instead of the usual 4ish time that I usually slide out! Its amazing the people you see when you stay past your shift. I managed to chat with Mitchell for bit. Sounds like he had a blast at the Motley Crue show in Ottawa last night.
Tonight I had originally planned on posting a bunch of pictures to my newly expanded photobucket page....but that may have to wait till later in the week. I'm feeling rather lazy tonight.
Believe it or not, I took NO pictures today, so I will post two of the last pics that I took with that sweet nikon 5200. This is a picture of a hand-carved flower that my friend Wendi Hudson brought back from Cuba for me a few years ago.

And this is one of Jethro being a couch potato: (this pic was taken by Billy)


March 1st tomorrow kids...lets pray for the beginning of some great weather:)

Ive had a lot of fun with this camera from work!!!

What an excuse to get outside and take some pictures!!!! It was a beautiful day today so I made a little tour out to the old abandoned Ernestown Station, just north of Millhaven. It was a bit of a walk up to the building, but I was just clicking and clicking all the way up to the back of the structure.

It always amazes me when I see such great stonework from centuries before:

Jebus, when I walked to the front of the building, I found the door was kicked open:

Thats when I bolted!
I took a drive up to number 2 highway and found this barn that is almost totally ripped apart. Poor barn:(

Then I travelled down old Millhaven Road. This picture is of the land where Asselstine Mill once stood.

Back to Bath. This is the back of the park bench that has a plaque in honour of my mother.

This is a shot of the latticework under my deck in my back yard:

And the build up of ice over my kitchen window: (Its down now)

I call this 1headlight

I have an angel in my kitchen:

Using the macro feature:

This is a weird plant that I have had for 15 years:

Here is one of Jethro imitating a prarie dog:

And last, but not least, Emmy, the other cat in the house:

Man I had a lot of fun with that little camera. I almost dont want to take it back tomorrow. I am sure it will be returning back here a few more times!!

We went to the MacKinnon's for dinner last night.

It was a grand photoshoot for this aspiring camera-hag! Our friends Mike and Johanna invited us over for an evening of great food & fine conversation. This house is something I could only dream about. The structure and all the furnishings are from the 1800's. I have tried to find the article that was published in Country Living magazine about their house a few years ago. Alas, I have had no luck in that aspect.
So here are a few pics of this lovely place that the MacKinnons call home.
This is the barn that I would love to take pics from the inside out:

Cow Signs:

glass knob:

candles and bells:

in the parlor:

Johanna's blue plates:

cat in the chair:


Its a beautiful sunny day today...I hope I can get out and snap a pile more pictures before I have to return this camera tomorrow. Happy Sunday!

Who ordered this snow?

I woke up at 5:30 this morning to the tune of the snowplow ripping through the street behind us. For some reason I thought it was a week day so I got up and took a shower. It wasn't until I put conditioner in my hair that I realized that it was Saturday! DUH!
Yesterday morning I awoke to a full moon shining in my face. By the time I got ready for work and driving up the road, it was almost gone. But I did manage to get a few snaps of it. This was taken on the side of 133 highway around 7AM.



Yesterday I signed out a Nikon 5200 digital camera from work. It is almost the same body structure of my own little camera only its a 5 megapixel unit. I took a few tester pics yesterday. This is a house I found down in the William street area. Man I love stone houses!



I'm just waiting for the mister to get his butt in the shower so we can head it out to foodie b's for groceries. Then we are meeting Harly and Judy (I think) for breakfast at 9. Tonight we are off to Mike and Johanna MacKinnons for dinner. I'm hoping Mike will let me take some pictures in and around his barn!!! Maybe I can bribe him somehow!

This summer will rock

I have my holidays booked and I can hardly wait till we get the boat in the water and jet off to parts unknown. So there is only 11 weeks left till may 24 weekend!! Another great thing about this upcoming summer is that there is a rumour of an upcoming Pearl Jam tour. It is suppose to be every two years and the last one was in 2003. This is how pathetic I am, I already have asked my friend Shayne to come with me. Of course he said yes....I just hope his wife doesn't mind!
Last week I received my copy of Pearl Jams Christmas record. This is one of the perks of being a fan club member. Another major reason I am still a fan club member is that you are assured of getting at least 2 tickets to a concert when they tour in your area.
Today was basically a no-picture day, so this is all I could think of to snap!

Man I love PJ. I must be their oldest fan alive! I first joined their fan club back in 1991 and if I had kept up membership, I would be in the front row of every concert of theirs that I could attend.
So tomorrow is Friday. I have a lot of housework to get caught up on as last weekend was spend being sick. Damn, I can hardly wait to ride that old vacuum again:)

Last night was spent cleaning up this site

When I first started my blog, my pictures were pasting in a smaller version than they were. That bugged me. So I somehow figured out how to post my pictures in a larger format, but the text boxes remained smaller than the pictures. Last weekend, my friend Shayne guided me through the manipulation of code and Voila...The text boxes are the same time as the enlarged pictures. Yea, sounds boring, but the inconsistency of the spacing and the large and small pictures were driving me insane. Last night I burned off over 3 hours in posting all my pictures to my photobucket site to tag up here.

So I left for work early this morning as I wanted to take a few minutes to check out an abandoned house I have viewed a few times in Barriefield. If I had boots on I would have crawled in a window, but there was a small security sign on the outside wall so I held myself back.



After looking closer, I discovered that the one side of the house was original limestone. I wonder if there is any documentation on this old structure as I would love to know the history of it!



There is a bush just outside my living room window that is the recipient of all excess moisture that runs off the roof. It looked so pretty this afternoon with the sun shining through the ice that had developed on its skinny little branches.



And to wrap it all up, can you guess what this is?

I watched the East Coast Music Awards last night

It was a great show and of course the sound was phenomenal. God Bless the CBC! The show ended with a performance by The Trews. They were joined onstage with their mentor, Gordie Johnson. (formerly of Big Sugar) I have been fortunate enough to be in the front row of the last three Trews shows in Kingston & cant express how amazing they are on stage! This prompted me to dig out some of my old Trews pics from AJ's from last April. It sounds strange, but I was probably the oldest person at the very front of the stage, but I used the excuse that I wanted some good pictures:)See how close I was to John-Angus?

Colin was jumpin for joy in this picture:

I love The Trews and am pleased they won at least one of the three ECMA'a that they were nominated for. Next up, the Junos in April.

Today was the day to get OUT of the house!

I cant believe I have not had any fresh air since we went out for dinner on Friday night! So Mr. C had a task at hand...Take me out and I did not care where! So we jumped in the van and drove around the countryside for a few hours. We never take a map and we always end up on some country sideroad that we have never been on before.
This place was kind of interesting, there was cement between the planks, which leads me to believe that someone actually lived in the place!

What a perfect red barn this is! Man, if I could have a barn like this, my life would be complete!

This is the falls in Colebrook:

Old Fence:

Old Cat: (This is my other cat named Emmy)

And an old deposit I found out in my flower garden:

Tomorrow is Monday, perhaps I will be energetic and get up at 5 to go swimming! I didn't go last week as I was beginning to feel sick. Lets hope this week goes fast!

Its sunny out

Too bad I wasn't out making snow angels or something equally amusing. I doubt I will be stepping outside the door this weekend. This illness just seems to knock all the strength out of you. I guess I wouldn't feel too bad if I didn't have this weight on my chest and the disgusting cough that goes along with it!

Maybe I will get adventurous and start trying to organize some of my Moms old pictures today, as housework just doesn't seem to be part of my agenda for the weekend! I wish my metabolism was a bit FASTER!



I love this picture of the band The Golden Dogs ... they use signs as props during their show.

Ok...time to get some work done!

I have been sick

This is not something I am used to but it happened. It started on Sunday and I managed to work for almost a full 8 hrs on Monday. Tuesday I called in sick!!! A FIRST for me! Even though I didn't feel better on Wednesday, I dragged myself into work. Everyone else in my department has the same thing, so no one could blame me for spreading my germs as I picked them up there anyways.
Ok, so Monday was Valentines Day and my husband surprised me with a beautiful card that he hid in my bag. I didn't find the big red envelope till I arrived at work. How sweet! Then when I got home I found roses on the table and a beautiful meal in the oven. I couldn't taste the food but I knew it was delicious by the smell! Yes guys, I got a card for him too.

This has been a relatively uneventful week. The only casualty is that Emmy nailed Jethro on the beak...again!

Plans for the weekend include cleaning and perhaps painting the ceilings, if I can motivate the old boy!!! If it wasn't going to be -19 out, I might consider going to the Feb Fest Hockey game in Kingston. Wouldn't it be a hoot to have my picture taken near Don Cherry?!

Sunset from the cottage

I woke up at 5 am...coughing. Perhaps my time has come to get a cold this season. I want to thank my husband for sharing it with me:)

In order to feel warmer, I thought I would post a favourite picture of mine from last summer. It was taken from the porch of our friends cottage on Amherst Island.

I think its only 14 more weekend now till may 24 weekend!

So what do you think this flat, black thing is???

It is on the top of a house on the corner of West and Ontario Streets in Kingston. I see this thing everyday on my way home and finally hit a red light today so I could snap a few pics of this ornate addition to the roofline of this beautiful home. When you see if from the side, it is flat and approximately an inch thick. Or so it appears from street level. The house is three stories high.



Hopefully we will have another sunny weekend so I can wear down my rechargable batteries:)

Im still here

I have been working 10 hr days this week and have not had time to update. Besides, I havnt taken any pictures this week. Time is needed to mourn and deal with grief.

Next week will be better.

I said goodbye to a friend today

I called in an emergency day today as I couldn't really deal with work. Due to the fact that I was up at 5 am, I went for a swim and when I came out of the building, the sun was just peaking above the horizon. I drove quickly down to Fairfield Park to snap a few pics of this peaceful event.



Today there were so many people at Wendy's funeral that they filled the St Johns Hall with those who would not fit in the church. There had to be over 200 people in the hall watching the service via video camera feed to a TV and amp. Everything was just too familiar. We got there too late to sit in the church so we went to the hall. It filled up in there quickly. We stayed for the lunch and then came home and moped. Well I did laundry and ironing but we both are just going through the motions.

We went to the Island today

For the last few days it has been so mild that the snow has created a smog; even at night. I snuck around the corner of our back deck last night and snapped this pic.

The first place we visited today was the old cementary where a group of folks took the time to redo all the old stone fences last summer. I tried using the macro feature on my camera on the old gate.

Then we drove around to the south side to check out the icebergs. My husband went right down on the ice to take some pics with his camera. (my old one that fixed itself) Being a chicken, I opted to stay on land and tried capturing another frost-covered item. This time it was a weed that was blowing in the wind. I think it turned out alright!

Here is my version of the landed icebergs, taken from the land!

And whats a trip to the Island without seeing a group of deer?

and a tractor

and a barn

Thats it for today.