Dateline: 2006 December 31st Toronto, Ontario
Just another year, Family, friends etc
January - December 2006
Just another year, January - December
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| Kayla's 16th with her mates |
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Kate & Kayla are taking music lessons
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| At the same studio. |
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| February recital at UofT |
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| Also, a band of the same mentor |
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Feb Humberside. Aiden in a cool school band
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My baby. March, somewhere
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| And Kate, her friend for life..... or not |
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| Teenagers, being not too obnoxious at Kayla's birthday |
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| Mandatory shot of Kayla on a horse. April |
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Such excitement
My office. Well, it was a pretty exciting place back then
Not hanging gifts from "An Admirer" of mine |
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| My kind of chaos |
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Carolyn, my office manager and occasional admirer
Probably birthday card
With Andrei. What a laugh we all had here, all the time
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Kayla and mates at one of her activities camp
some way up North |
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| Dawn, Kate and Kayla |
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| At the camp. |
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| Probably Guides. June 6 |
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Humberside music. A standard annual end of season event
May 12
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| Another recital, this time in June |
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At the Grenadier retirement centre,
as organised by the music studio |
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And the secret of my success (well one of them)
my 4' x 8' ceramic white board. Supreme being of design devices
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Heading back from a day trip
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| With Margaret and probably local lunch |
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| Somewhen in August |
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| Back to her house in Mt Forest |
Massassauga, late August |
| Just the lads, Richard of course on his mandatory R&R from home |
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| With Gerry |
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| So Gerry & I do all the paddling |
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| Richard has wrecked his shoulder |
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| And carrying |
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| Richard still has some domestic skills available |
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| Gerry, of course, still has none |
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We head off portaging into the unknown with our full kit
Richard doubles as official recorder of the events |
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| You can't just stop and squash the mozzies doin this |
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| I think we did some major portaging disgtances |
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And, as ever, the camping and the
park were wonderful
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| There's always lots of wood for this |
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| So much, I nearly set an overhanging tree alight. Thankfully, KI/ we got away with it |
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| One portage was about 600 metres |
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| Quite right, absolutely totally knackered |
October, Riding, Udora
I think we left after the Humberside musical evening on December 15th, and I'd booked into a Cornwall hotel
I was so almost, but not actually dead when we got there around 3AM!
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Our time share, probably in
Ste Anne De Beaupre, Quebec |
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I can't believe it was just the 4 of us!
Kayla, Kate & Livia |
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| But no pix of Richard, and Ilge had long since given up on these treks |
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| Still good friends |
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| Livia (Richards daughter), and Edna |
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| In my trust cruiser |
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Looks like Richard did arrive, somewhen
Of course, most of his time there was spent on the phone with clients |
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Kate being shown how to
hold a vacuum cleaner |
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It's a long, long way from the other side of Quebec City to Toronto.
8 plus hours on a good day if you don't get lost in Montreal
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I think they played this tube for a lot of the trip: December 23th,
As long as I don't need to emergency brake, we're all fine
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And I assume we arrived safely, if totally knackered on the Saturday
Next day, our Christmas is based around Christmas Eve |
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Even Marg. All the regulars
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| Plus a couple of first borns |
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Daylight, Ben arrives early for the festivities
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Patty and Roy. The usual suspects
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Margaret? Must have been a special occasion
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Wow, multiple picture formats (several digital, some video and a few from negatives which don't say when the were taken) so lots of thinking to get these in maybe the right order, or not....
From your correspondent (A long time in the future from this)
