You may remember where we last left the tree: This’d be it. Well, at the crack of 7:30 this morning, they came back to finish the job. A loud truck showed up with a very vicious looking piece of equipment: a stump grinder. Teeth. And proceeded to get down to business: From the porch. From …
Category Archive: Family Life
Aug
13
Aug
13
Back from Camp
We haven’t even blogged about Jon’s fun at various day camps and already he’s back from his 10-day overnighter at Easter Seals Camp! Until we get that blogged—we’re still awaiting images (long story)—what we can say is he had a great time and it’s a well-deserving charity, folks. He was picked up looking scruffy and …
Jul
23
A Tree Got Chopped Down in Toronto, Part 2
At the end of our last post we were left with a 20-foot stump gracing our front yard. Today the crew came back for Part 2. Early in the morning came all the big machinery again; this time a big flatbed with a bin as well as the crane and cherry-picker pictured here. First cut. …
Jul
18
Grandma’s Birthday
Wasn’t she a peach? Grandma in her early 20s. As I mentioned in my last post, the reason for the influx of relatives was the occasion of my grandmother’s 100th birthday! As that is a pretty stunning milestone just about the whole clan came to T.O. to celebrate. So on June 10th—her official, if not …
Jul
17
Jon’s Weather Fascination Continues
At Jon’s school, as he gained confidence, he told many of his comrades and teachers about his mash-ups of The Weather Network videos found on YouTube. This gave one of his Educational Assistants an idea, and the great folks at the Office approved it. Once a week, Jon was invited to do the weather forecast …
Jul
17
This should be a June post
Second in our “try-to-catch-up” series of blogposts… Much of June was spent in getting ready for my grandmother’s 100th birthday celebrations on June 10. The first bit of June involved deep-cleaning the house, to attempt to clear out space for the massive influx of relatives who were going to bunk at our place for a …
Jul
15
This Should Be A March-April post
I apologize for our lack of blogging. Things have been busy—not nearly busy as we’d like in the freelance world, but that means trying to come up with new projects and getting them going, while keeping all the other balls in the air. Anyway, to the blogging at hand. Here’s a little thing that developed …