Apple Pickin' 2010

Apple Pickin' today !!This year I broke with tradition and tried a new Orchard near Ottawa. A little 20 acres called Mountain Orchard in you guessed it the town of Mountain about 45 min out. No mountains to speak of and the service is... well very young and bloody slow %$?$#%?#$%?# But the apple trees where so low you barelly needed to raise your hand to fill you bag with deliciousness. Big juicy apples ripe for the picking and what is this ?! Donuts and fresh cider on the way out ! Oh and the donuts ? Made fresh in front of you and served steaming hot from their oil bath with a dash of cinamon. Mium mium ! 20 pounds for me, 20 pounds for Christie and a couple of well taken photos from Ian. A productive excursion and soooo many yummy pies to come :)




Pic by Ian

Yup, this will do nicely ... : D

It was nearly a week ago that I moved up yet another river to our nations' capital. The moved went pretty smooth as far as I am concern. Dad had a flat on the trailer on the way to the city before picking me up and I got a tree branch fall square on my head while he was pocking at the car trailer hitch for the bicycle rack. It went as follow:

Tap tap tap with the hammer and screw driver
I joined him on the street
Tap tap tap he went and I eagerly watched
Tap tap toc it went
Down came the tree branch on my head
Out came the metal cover from the car trailer hitch
Out laughing in the street went the rest of our merry moving crew.


Had lunch and about an hour or so later left the city packed up to our hears in both vehicles + one low ridding trailer. Had supper on the local burger joint and after a good brunch Sunday morning my helpers headed back home and I was left to unpack my crap with the occasional break to snoop around the neighborhood. I gotta say I think I like it here ! I counted 4 outdoors, kayak & Canoe shops within 5 min walking distance from my new abode and another 2 min to the nearest dedicated bus line not to mention a very short car ride to the bridge connecting this side of the country with la Belle Province. Took me 10 min yesterday to get downtown via the dedicated bus line for an interview thought I'll admit the usage of two bus tickets for a one way pass in order to differentiate kids from adults is a little weird... Just print different colors people. Oh and I get the feeling I'm going to miss the magnetic / rechargeable bus card. Already yesterday I was searching franticly through my pockets for the ever-elusive paper ticket, lol. Got a burger and breakfast joints right around the corner and I was informed via a tasting sample (salami on cream cheese on fresh bagel) from my roommate that the cousin or uncle to the owner of St Viateur bagels has a shop nearby also. Same recipe just a little less time dedicated to the rising of the doe =denser bagels. Yaaaaaa I think I might still have gobble those up with cream cheese. Just to be fair to the St Viateur family you know... Can't show any favoritism now can I ? ;P All in all this place is turning out to be pretty sweet.


Oh and we go a very sociable & mellow rabbit walking the grounds around the house.





P.S. Dad had another flat tire about one hour out of the capital while heading back home… Driving back this weekend to get it fixed… AGAIN ! Lol , naahhh not funny though....

test run update via corby.

long time no see hence the current test entry. indeed as i have been without internet for a while i am coming to live tonight from my cell in my temp appartment upstairs from my old place. with one week to til my final move in our nation capital i am looking forward to a change of pace away from theise crumbling bridges and overpasses, randomly closed roads and construction workers on strike again.... this could take a while so i let you pick up the paper instead :p As i was saying one week to go. Began paking again today and with any luck I ll begin training my replacement at work tomorow. Live from my corby, g night.

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Gas in the city & the Ungreatfull Troll

FWI yestrday the Gas was at 99.9 off the 40 heading North and only 5 minutes later off Decary it was at 108.... Just saying' Oh and yes I did fill up at 99.9 on this occasion !

Next on the agenda is the ever growing listing of pet peeves.

Number 34 : If you can't do your work without bitching and putting the fault on others who are helping you by the way. Don't go around all hight and mythy when they try to share an olive branche. That little troll came in at 3 pm (I at 12) at work and had the nerve to tell me he did't mind doing over time and I quote cry over it. I just did half of your work at the expence of half of mine with one hour of overtime and this is the thanks I get !!! His work had priority, obviously. Hence I obliged but my shift was over an hour ago so really the only thing keeping me there: doing HIS work since he did't have time and to try and keep the system from crashing and him out of trouble. So why is it that I' ll be in trouble come monday and that little pinheaded dwarf of a troll will most likelly be walking on sunshine !?! And another thing, next time I try and do someone of the kind a favour, shoot me !

weather permitting

Hamac.... Weather permiting hey..... #$%@$%@#$%@$%@ I had to clean my car of snow 3 times today ! WTF !


Picture of early this morning elsewhere in the city, courtesy of H.M. Nice one !

Update

Indeed it is begining to be quite nice out there, birds chipping away, purse dogs yapping and shall I risk saying "growling" in a smurftanoying way ? lol The area around my appartment has been buzzing with life theise past few days.

Oh et en parlant du printemps, des fleurs et des abeilles.... Un ptit oiseau ma rapporté des faits interessant sur certains habitants qui viennent tout juste d'eménager dans leur réçament érigé nid. Semble que des félicitations soit demises ! Comme quoi la nouvelle maison ne sera point vide en effet pour longtemps !! Félicitation J & F !!!!!!

So it has been a while since last I posted. Truth be told, everytime I sat down for an entry I felt like I was leaving stuff behind and so never completed/posted a number of entries now collecting dust in a dark and dusty server room. What is going on theise days ? Well finally working for one thing and am activelly fishing for a new appartment and co. as my cordon bleu chef will be moving out soon. The Patio has yet to be broken in hamac wise but I do believe later this week "peeping tommettes" might be in for a real treat as my toes will be sticking out from the hamac weather permitting.

GOLD ! GOOOOLD !!

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Hockey..... Gold, GOLD !!! All is right with the world once again in our Canadian Land.



Now to the closing ceremony ;P


Oh and just in case some of you are still pondering that enigmatic Canadian Olympic slogan, (see those CTV commercials...) "Do You Believe" Well, this might help a little :)



Courtesy of professional snowboarders Devun Walsh and Dionne Delesalle posing as Chris Del Bosco.

How is it going ?

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Really not so good. Feelin stressed out, both in body and mind. Ooooh how I despise this job search waiting game. Those endless sleepless days waiting and leaving messages. Sending CV's out like a quantragilion other morons. Locking the door, a deaf ear to expences and dues. A high price for this ongoing avoidance !



When sleep not longer cuts it ... Anyone knows where I might get some of those "magic mushrooms" Spike injested ? Been a while since I took a descent walk.

"Obnoxious Little Frog" LOL