"I like when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows up though the a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic" --- George Carlin

This might just be the most menacing looking Aloe plant I have ever seen.

It's a pretty nice place, these gardens. It's nice when enormous towns have gardens, you can sort of forget that you are surrounded by a polluting juggernaut. Until you walk outside again, of course. Toronto isn't that bad, really. They do a lot of recycling and is home to the worlds only functional Urban Wind turbine. I should get a picture of that.

I didn't see any venus fly traps, that would have been great. I'll have to go back and see if I maybe just missed them the first time.

It sounds like a storm is brewing outside so I am gonna go watch. Summer storms are one of my favorite things. See you later.

This is sort of a picture of Port Credit. We hang out here sometimes. On this particular evening we found ourselves getting in trouble with another man's Lambo. See the below pictures.


This dude rolled around town for what seemed like hours and hours. We watched him from the bar window for awhile as he drove up and down and up and down the street. Dork.



So once he parked his car though I figured I would at least go check out what 400k gets you, right? What are the odds that my shirt matched.....

Although not shown, due to circumstances out of my control, there was almost, what I am sure would have been a great and lasting photo of my trying to "Dukes of Hazard" my way into the driver's seat. There was a reason that Nature made me funny.....because it didn't make me graceful. He shouted and ran after us for a bit but we got away. We hopped into Andrew's truck and sped away.



Of course, right?

Catch you guys later, I'll post again soon.

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot" --- Dr. Suess

I know what you're thinking, and yeah, I know I need to dust.

Please...Don't feed the animals!!

Oakville is getting to me. Can you tell?

4th of July '06

Fourth of JulyI was trying to take a picture of the beach, but as you can see the sunlight was fading fast. If you look really carefully you can see the light house that sits at the breakwater for Holland State Park in the lower left corner of the photo. It's about a mile and a half or so and that is where we launch the boats from.
This is our breakfasting location. We all sort of join up as we wake up in the mornings. You get a pretty good view of the beach from here, though it is completly lost in this photo.
This is where we spend most of our time. From the edge of the grass to the water is about 80 yards or so. We play horseshoes volleyball and go kayaking by day. At night we build a good sized bonfire and launch our firework arsenal. Good times.

Jay, Gary( J's dad) and Amanda, from left to right. This deck is the ultimate in relaxation locations. Bar-b-que is over J's shoulder, the keg is behind Mr. Miller and out of hte picture to the right are a hammock and two of the most comfortable green beach chairs I have ever had the pleasure of sitting in. I make it a point to take a nap in the afternoon in one of those chairs, they're great. It's like in those commercials for Sealy; you know where they show why Sealy shouldn't make bear skin rugs and some other things? Anyway, you sit in these chairs and just pass out. It can't be helped.
Jay says hi.
Amanda too.
So this seems to be all the photos that it will allow me to post. I have others. I didn't take my camera on the boat. They appointed me Commander, so I had to drive, and that makes it hard to snap pics. I did get to order the others around though, and I got my choice of beer coozie(sp.??). It's the little things. This last picture is of the lift that takes you down to the beach. I think it's like 120 ft tall, so the view at the top near the house is pretty killer.


One more. This, plus Mr. Miller and myself was the crew this year. Normally there would be 4 or five others but they had weddings and stuff to attend this year. Joe, seen in the front, was the best man in J's wedding. He's living in London for the time being setting up a new branch of the company that he works for in Chicago. They told him he had to go three weeks ago. He told them the only way he would go was if they bought him a ticket to come back for the week of the 4th. Quote: "I told them, you can't seriously exepct me to spend the 4th of July in the country we declared independance from." Apparently it worked. He should have gone into sales.