Camping in Algonquin Park After a week in New York it was time for a change of pace. So with Bridget, Martin and Rowie, Donna and I set the GPS for Algonquin Park and Algonquin Outfitters for a two day canoeing and camping trip. But first we would spend the day, and most of the night, with friends Bill and Jeanette at the Blue Skies Festival, held annually near their place, and then leave for the park from there. The Blue Skies Festival is a nearly 40 year ol...

Hi all, back to the blogging game after a short break. Have not really done anything interesting in the time since being at Bill's farm, but it was the Easter Break so we decided to do something a bit more local since "spring is upon us"! Yeah, right! During the week prior to Easter we had cold conditions, ice rain, ice pellets (small droplets of rain frozen into a fine hail) and snow flurries! Yes, snow flurries, our back deck had a light covering of...