Spring is heading
slowly into summer and while I continue to look for little baby birds they
continue to elude me. The sun begins to set over Fairy Lake.
The small wading
pool in Prospect Park collects leaves until the day the get the pool ready
for the summer swimming season. I don't know when the plan to replace this
pool with a splash pad.
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June
7, 2008
Goslings sighting
On a warm Saturday
at the waters off Acton Legion I finally see a small group of Canada Geese
babies. I see only two small groups, one of 4 and a slightly older group
of five. Usually there are a heck of a lot more babies than this so I'm
thinking that someone has begun to kill off the eggs before the goslings
can hatch by spraying the eggs with mineral oil or safflower oil.
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June
8, 2008
Enjoying Lake
Ontario
The GTA finally
had a taste of summer with temperatures on the weekend above 30 degrees
celcius. We checked out the shores of Lake Ontario from Cherry Beach to
Humber Bay.
The Bay at Cherry
Beach was full of sail boats and a few windsurfers while a few kite surfers
were out of luck as the wind wasn't strong enough to pull them. I think
that there were as many dogs as people down cooling off by the water. There
was a large group of dogs fetching balls thrown into the water although
some were to scared to go after the balls. The group of dogs above was
watching a little Jack Russel terrior retrieving a ball from some distance
out while the waves rolled up on shore.
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June
13 to 16, 2008
Quebec
Our weekend journey
of 2 300km brought us into the Belle Province of Quebec for a long weekend
visit in Quebec City. Kevin holds an arret stop sign (the real road signs
do not say stop, only arret) fridge magnet in the beautiful old town or
Vieux-Quebec Interior. For more of our visit please
click
here.
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June
28, 2008
ducklings
We saw only one
family of Mallard ducklings in Fairy Lake and we didn't bring any food
with us so the only thing we got to see was their backsides as the swam
away in the dusk.
Yesterday we had
fun during the start of the Canada Day long weekend - we went to see Get
Smart at the Galaxy Theatres in Milton. We really enjoyed the movie - they
did a great job. With the rain and clouds we hung around home today and
went for a walk in Prospect Park. On the way out we stopped at the playground
where the kids have played since they were wee little tikes. Kevin got
on the spring car - I think it used to be a bulldozer many years ago.