ANN NEMY DEN MATIEK

ALL MY LOVE

HYLA NEMY, RIDLEY COLLEGE, Where was I, May 12th, ....2008

2008
Ridley College, St Catharines, Ontario, CANADA

Ak-tung Baby.

Proud Nana

"May I be consumed in Service"

Friends.
But, I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour. 
I'll be there for you, like I've been there before. 
I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too. 

The Parents

Last time I would suggest a rental.

Yes SIR, I mean MAM, I mean SIR, ....

BAYFIELD INLET DEMOLITION DERBY

 I still have a ways to go, but every little bit that I take down helps with the vision of what our new cottage may hold.  I like what I see in my head and then some scares the ......

2012: A BAYFIELD ODYSSEY
Just what do you think you're doing, Paul?

Picture window perfect.

Stop upside down snowmobilers
from crossing railroad tracks. 

If the weather keeps up, might not have to put new roof on.
Open concept. Bring the outside in, Bears not invited.


               2012 New Year's resolution coming soon.

BAYFIELD INLET - D40, THE KOOP

THE BAYFIELD DIARIES

THIS EPISODE: THE KOOP

Where’s the ground Kobo beef? More so, where are the chickens? This tale has neither. This is a story of a little building on our island.

When we became islanders, this, one of the three main structures, served as partial tool storage and sleeping quarters, ideal for a tired handyman.

Both the interior and its 70’s product du jour, waferboard siding, proved as minimalist as one would need to hold up some rather tired shingles.

The renewal started with a re-roof, in I believe, 2007. My challenge to brother-in-law Paul M.’s shingling skills proved good for me, bad for him. Over 2010 and 2011 we re-sided, thanks Papa Mansfield, and finished the interior with a coat of ceiling paint, nice white pine paneling and some simple laminate flooring.

Early in our islander days, we had friends Larry and Lorraine and their daughter’s, Amada and Mel visit. The family KOOP.

When’s the last time you had a shack named after you?

Hope you like the colour?

Thanks Papa Mansfield.

I think we have done well. What's for supper?

Nice view. I thought I heard a Loon. I did hear a Loon.

 

Ready for a tired handyman. (could use a not-so-tired electrician to finish that light(s))

ONTARIO TRACK 3 SKI ASSOCIATION

JANUARY 2012

HELPING YOU, HELPING ME.

Early winter I joined Ontario Track3www.track3.org. An association that for close to forty years has been teaching physically and mentally challenged children and youth to ski, snowboard and most importantly, have fun on snow.

After a weekend of instruction in Collingwood, I was deemed worthy of the task presented.  There were about 25 of us newbies, far short of what the association needs. There are over three hundred kids enrolled in the program and another two hundred on the waiting list for lack of instructors.

My program involved that every Thursday night in January and February I skied at Glen Eden in Milton. There I assisted and almost immediately was joined with my own student, Kennedy.  The program focuses on a person’s abilities rather than their challenges.  Track3 has their own little trailer at the resort. Picture my first and most every hour before we hit the slopes. A room filled with about a dozen kids with various levels of mental and physical problems, yelling, questioning and arguing, a dozen caregivers, prodding, provoking and pleading their charges to put left boots on left feet, you DO need mitts! NO helmet, NO snowboarding (I still can’t believe what some of the instructors did to get some of these kids up on snowboards) and on and on, and then us instructors trying to assist, keep peace and ourselves out of harms way. Then by some small miracle, the room emptied and everyone was at varying degrees on the hill.

Kennedy is a fourteen-year-old autistic girl. After some introduction through the association and her mother, we became quite comfortable with each other. She was a willing learner and quick with a puzzling smile, though we did talked a lot. How much we both understood was never an issue. I more than once reassured Kennedy (though I lied a little) that she had kept my record, of only meeting nice people skiing, in tack.

I never once lost sight, though I tried to explain, how helping her was helping me.  In many ways.  In being a friend.

One excitement for me, after trying to impress with my lists of skiing achiements, was a new to me way of getting up the hill.  

Well, you don't know what

We can find

Why don't you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

This season I did a lot of skiing like I drive my rental cars. Backwards. Saves on mileage charge.

I wonder if Temple Grandin skis?

End of season Bash!

A man with heart. Brad. Thursday night organizer.

Slip, Sliddin away

Perigee Moon, and Venus is alright tonight.

If your bathwater had a slight tilt last night, or you were in bed and felt the earth move, it possibly was because the full moon and all it's business was as close to our earth as it will be for ......... , lets say, till next time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

Robertson Davies quotes (Canadian Journalist and Author. 1913-1995)

She's got it,
Yeah, baby, she's got it.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at your desire.

CANADIAN ARMY, DOLLARAMA, - MOBILE MUSEUM

Dateline: Classified

I did speak to these guys, but due to the highly insignificant nature of their mission, I cannot disclose much other than they were speeding (75kmp) their way to (I can't remember) when they happened upon 50% off at the Dollorama. The commander couldn't get over they still were taking pennies.

PARRY SOUND, ONTARIO, CANADA

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