The New Boat in Action!

WCA has Acquired the MyCCR

http://www.myccr.com/announcement.htm
Well, the good news is that it is not folding! Not sure if there is any bad news.
Certainly still the first and last word in backcountry canoeing (and often winter camping) online.
All credit to Richard Munn for founding and establishing the site over the years - must have been tough but my gratitude at least.

...and now with painted baseboards!

 

Annual Fall Colour Report, pt. 1

"The fall colour season is just barely under way..."

WooHoo!

Laurie and I are the proud new owners of this!!!
 
 
 
Can't wait for Algonquin.
Speaking of which... Look for the next post

New Floors Cont'd

 
 
 

Return of the Colour Report

So far, not much colour change going on in Ontario's forests. Soon though. Soon.

Carpets Begone!

 

Out West

2007 Canadian Ultimate Championships

Start Thursday.

The aptly named Paradise Valley

Alpine blooms have short lives

Congratulations!

Sunset over Rundle

Frappuccinos: summer's liquid cheeseburger!

"A cup of black coffee is a three-calorie beverage. Add a teaspoon of sugar and a splash of milk and you're up to 35 calories. But order a frozen coffee drink and you've turned a low-calorie beverage into a 500-plus-calorie liquid dessert."

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

The article is good, but the map is better. Succinct and compelling.

The Polish John Cleese

"However, Ms Merkel views Poland, rather than Britain, as the main opponent of a deal and the hardest nut to crack. Such perceptions were confirmed when Warsaw raised old grievances about Germany to try to bolster its case for a "fairer" voting system in running the EU. Under current arrangements dating from 2000, Germany has 29 votes to Poland's 27 in EU councils. The new system, based on population sizes, will give Germany more than double the Polish vote. The Poles are demanding a new way of calculating votes that would diminish German "hegemony."
Under the nationalist Kaczynski brothers, prime minister and president of Poland, it seemed Poland was bent on refighting the second world war against Germany in the bunkers of Brussels.
"If Poland had not had to live through the years 1939-45, Poland would be today looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million", rather than 38 million, and would warrant a much higher quota of votes in the EU, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the prime minister, told Polish radio.

Well. Seeing as the founding principle of the EU is "Don't Mention The War!" it seems to me that the only possible response would be repeated viewings of this classic Fawlty Towers sketch. However, the Poles had a different response - thinking out of the box as it were and I have to say, I didn't see this coming:

Neat Sailing Tricks

Apparently this is important before you sail around the world...

Not Another One

Toronto Police: Cyclist Killed. Here

That's Gotta Hurt!

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