Steel City Big Pour Yesterday was the 2nd annual Steel City Big Pour, "3 hours of beer, live art, and music" to benefit Construction Junction, Pittsburgh's nonprofit building material recycler. This year there were two 3-hour sessions, both of which were sold out at 1,000 tickets each – it was the hot ticket in town…
Hi neighbors…Now that my son finally got his internet turned on at his apartment in Brisbane, he's posted some more to his blog. Check it out – feel free to comment, so as to encourage him to continue 😉 Read and post comments
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So… the veggie email today said that the oblong brown or green thing is a spaghetti squash, so before I even picked up the box, I figured we would have time to cook that for dinner before going to the funeral home (for a neighbor). I got home after picking up the veggies at the…
Sidewalk grafitti In front of the FrogpondFarm house. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Frogpond logo Next we made our way through the herds of bicyclists to FrogpondFarm, Ontario's only certified organic winery – can you guess whose choice that was? 🙂 This was just about a polar opposite from Peller Estates – a little 10-acre plot, farmed by Heike and Jens, with a little photocopied leaflet containing…
Hillebrand restaurant patio It was almost noon by the time we finished our Peller surveys and champagne, so we chose to go to Hillebrand next, where D&E knew they had a nice restaurant. Very nice, in fact. Papardelle at Hillenbrand We were able to sit outside, and after the sun-dried tomato bread with…
There are 2 cats at the B&B, but luckily they don't seem to be causing Al any allergic reactions. Maybe Canadian cats are different… 🙂 0823080851.jpg Read and post comments | Send to a friend
We got going around 2:00, and after a late lunch stop in Erie, made it to Buffalo just in time for rush hour at 5. We decided to cross the Rainbow Bridge, because we didn't want to get on the QEW, and the overhead signs said there may be a 2-hour wait at the Queenston Bridge.…
At the WetGo… I don't know why they felt the need to have the soap suds in rainbow colors – maybe more fun for the kids…? 0821081434.jpg Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Where have the days gone? 