I really need to catch up. Yes, I keep saying that…

I was disappointed that I didn’t make it out west for the winter.

Snow and cold in Ontario…once I returned from the blizzard of a drive, the weather improved for a while. Some nice walks in the snow.

Cooking is a fun thing in winter.

At least the cast iron is only two pieces. The bottom is a good size and I can even bake bread in it. I haven’t tried this in the trailer yet, but I will.

Before I tried it in the trailer, I had to try it at home. This was a really cool find.

Carleton Place can be a pretty place in winter. This is the Town Hall on Bridge St. I am still unsure about spending the winter.

Some baking was in order so I thought making Armenian Chorag was in order. The recipe came from a Middle Eastern cookbook and comparing it with the online recipes it was mostly the same. Not as good as my mother’s of course.

It was a long enough January that we took to dressing up the cat.

Making pretzels is fun…you watch YouTube videos and they make it look so easy…as you can see from the above, the knot is much to be desired thought the flavour was perfect.

One of our wonderful neighbours keeps bees and invited me to go along to check on the hives in the winter..a lovely experience to see what happens.

One of the sheep at that farm had lambs and this was a newborn.

One of the jobs of bee keeping is checking on them in the winter to see if the queen is well.

With the pandemic, we had Zoom meetings and this was our setup. Easy to see on the big screen. This was a rehearsal for a GCTC Zoom Choir.

There is a wonderful application called Trash Nothing that people give away stuff and we found this Ansel Adams print. We framed it and after a while wanted a companion print. I wasn’t going to add my name in the same category so I became some other guy with a B&W print of the stairs at Gross Morne National Park.

Spring did arrive and just south of us are beautiful and aromatic lilac bushes.

The great thing about riding to Almonte is the ice cream you can get when you arrive.

The weather warmed up and we went fishing. We like the idea of releasing them if we aren’t hungry.

Summer and camping once again. Linda is enjoying the walk in the water with Hector.

We prefer to camp unserviced as the trailer handles it well. This site showed waterfront on the park map, but we found we had to go through the woods to access the Ottawa River. The site did allow for enough solar power to power everything.

The scent of the first campfire of the year is wonderful and as you can see our spoiled Mr. Hector is feeling very comfortable as well.

We found this guy along the trail and it was quite large…