A couple of Capital Days

Marthe who is the Mother of Rex, Arno, Bodo and Victor and I  looking at photo albums  from her youth in Rumania , her brother who was in the SS was killed at the end of the war and then her time with my folks in Bielefeld.

Shell and Marthe on the roof garden of her condo, Ottawa river in the background

Buddy Charles after we finished working on my secret renewal - he is the company security officer and discussing possible construction contract for me. Charles was once in the Canada CC team

The original Giant Tiger started in 1961 

Runners by the Rideau

Ridgemount High where my great friend William was once a student he is now a high tech entrepreneur in the UK

Rex in the Garden of Eden


Today Thursday we are off to Festung Rex das steht in Quebec - bis spater!!!

Village in the Promised Land

The park ends on the lakeshore

Town Hall

Outdoor restaurant

About half an acre with pool

Important Store

The Harbour looking out

Lane to the beach

Main street intersected

A couple of hours walking around on the way to the capital

Week 5 Dn was on the Italian job but the apprentice continued

Before the start to clear and dig for the new waste pipe for the basement bathroom

Thin flagstones from inventory  for the front patio

Digging slowed by big rock

The grass still has to be cut front here and back

Week 4 of 14 we are behind due to 4 days rain

This gravel ditch drains water from under the concrete

The rose garden rediscovered

Dn lays in the concrete

Concrete walkway completed from kitchen steps pad to shed pad

Part of Project 2 site preparation for lower deck

Week 3 of the 14 week plan

These update pictures should have been taken last night but it was too dark when the apprentice finished.

The Apprentice worksheet is a start it will improve for week  4

Starting to clear the work site for project 2 where lower deck will be

Project 1 preparing for the pour joining kitchen and shed pads foreground is location of flagstone patio to be
 

Worksite progress viewed from the other end

Note in week 3 we lost time due to the torrential downpour see earlier blog some foundations and trenches had to be  drained and redone.

For heat don't go to WI, Southern USA or Europe

Come to southern Ontario:
Toronto 43 degrees 42 minutes North, Florence 43 degrees 47 minutes North. Yes not widely known Florence Italy is North of Toronto Ontario. Here are two thermometer readings from Saturday.

In the SHADE on my deck

Inside my kitchen

I did not put the thermometer in the sun on the deck because I was concerned  the heat would push the mercury through the top!!!!!!!!! Plus we have many beautiful lakes with public access,  beaches with miles per person NO sharks or poisonous jelly fish see previous blog on Rock swim. Climate variation is definitely here 1 inch of snow this last winter. Notice only variation not change since Rick Santorum (ex USA Republican Presidential  contender) announced "climate change is a hoax".

Three Score plus years and the rock swim

This where the river width increases so it appears as a little lake

This is the first leg crawl from the beach to the centre rock

The second leg is dolphin to the further rock

Third leg backstroke over to the rock slightly right of center

Fourth leg across from the rock to stones way on other side breaststroke and finally fifth leg the long stretch  crawl back to beach.

I have not found an Olympic official and timekeeper yet so have no posted times in case you were wondering?


Fifteen minutes from home is the Rockwood conservation area pictured above in the Rock swim route. 
The Woollen Mill was started in 1867 by Richard Harris, with the stone structure being built in 1884. The mill operated from 1867 until 1919, then reopened for a short time in the 1930's. The mill and the surrounding property were sold to the Conservation Authority in 1959. Much of the structure was destroyed by fire in 1965. Careful inspection along the river might turn up remnants of the foundations of workers' cottages. The preserved ruin of the old Harris Woollen Mill, the dam and millpond, Old Valley Road and the caves and pot holes are all of historical, architectural and geological interest and go a long way to explaining why Rockwood exists today.