Adventures in Driving

June 8th, 2009

Well, I’m back in St. C after going back to my hometown. My Mom’s birthday is coming up so I went home to visit. I had a lovely time there and also saw some very good friends (and a friend’s absolutely adorable 9 month old baby girl).

On the way back, to keep myself entertained, I started cataloging the things I had seen while driving.

A few of the more memorable things are:

approximately 60 miles of construction
1 angry turkey in a field
white tailed deer in a pen
roadkill
license plates from: Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Georgia, New York and a terrible BMW driver from New Jersey
an empty GM plant
speeders pulled over by police (in one case, 3 within approximately 100m)
fields, trees, lakes and rivers
rain
2 sunsets
a couple vineyards

And as an aside, on this trip I also experienced the irony of John Mellencamp’s “Authority Song” playing while going through customs.

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Lia’s Socks

May 23rd, 2009

Before going to Florida (Video from that trip here: Clearwater Marine Aquarium) I knitted a pair of socks for my Tante Freerkje and started on a second pair for my cousin, Lia.

Here is my finished product and the pattern (after the cut):

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Niagara Folk Arts Festival

May 23rd, 2009

This post is coming a bit after the fact but last weekend B and I went to two Open Houses of the Niagara Folk Arts Festival. We had the most excellent Ukrainian food at St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

B and I had perogies, kolbassa, cabbage rolls and (in his case) sauerkraut.

Then we moved on to the Club the Netherlands open house. My mom was born in Friesland, so I knew I couldn’t miss this one I was also able to fulfill a lifelong dream I never knew that I had… I got to stand in a giant wooden shoe!

When we got there a polka band (called Tomato Soup) was playing.

And how could we leave without having croquetten and olie bollen? Yum

This is for you Mom:

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Clearwater Marine Aquarium

May 16th, 2009

I just got back from a short vacation to Florida last Sunday. B and I had the pleasure of going to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. To anyone in or visiting the Clearwater area… I highly recommend the Eco Combo package! It was a great way to spend the day, both informative and fun!

The dolphin in the video below, Winter, lost her entire tail as well as two vertebrae a result of the serious injuries that she had sustained trapped in a crab trap at 3 months of age. She made a full recovery and is learning how to wear a prosthetic tail. She is also very chatty and in many of my videos you can hear her chirping in the background. For more information about Winter please visit her website.