Maple Syrup Season 2010

Made my annual trip to Fulton's Maple Sugar Bush and Pancake House.
Yummy best describes this year's wonderful maple syrup.


If you have time, check the short video clip below
to observe maple sap running.
This is the old-fashioned way to collect sap.
Maple trees were tapped and the sap was collected in buckets.
Sap was collected by hand and dumped into large containers
and taken to the sugar shack for boiling.

Below is the modern state-of-the-art equipment for
boiling down maple sap to produce maple syrup.

Enjoy the taste of maple syrup - spring tonic

Waikiki Beach 6.0

Waikiki Beach 6.0 was great this year, but not for me.

Took some wonderful pics from our condo
(click on pics to enlarge)

After a bout with bronchitis, I managed to get myself admitted to Straub Hospital for one week. I was discharged directly to Air Canada's flight home to my own medical Drs and health care system.

If you ever need health care while in Hawai'i, I highly recommend Straub Clinic and Hospital. Be sure you have travel insurance. Needless to say, there are no pics of me in Straub!

GOLD it Is for Canada

What a GOLD Medal hockey game we just played with Team USA. Sidney Crosby is our HERO.

Vancouver Olympics 2010 have made Canadians proud as we showcased our country and athletes to the world.

14 GOLD medals...most ever won by any country at the Winter Olympics!

January 2010 Update

Haven't blogged in weeks!! January has been super busy. I'm completing grant proposals for my Network for Educational Leaders (NEL) clients as well as working for two school districts. Travelled by Bearskin Air to a new location to meet new clients and present an overview of how I can assist them with their Differentiated Instruction (DI) Project.

The Question Structure (QS) Project is still rolling right along in the Near North. When Semester 2 begins in February, there'll be a new wave of electronic data collection and a flurry of e-mails.

One more week to go until I transfer to the Waikiki Beach condo...will update from there...can't wait for the vista & the pics to come....

Happy New Year

Let's go for an Awesome 2010

Ottawa On Ice

'Put it on Ice' has a new meaning in Ottawa these days

as you can see from the pics below
taken from my condo (click to enlarge)

Some of us remember the Ice Storm of 1998.
This is a grim reminder of the power of nature.

Merry Christmas 2009

Enjoy the magic of the Christmas lights, wherever you are.

Canadian Parliament Buildings and Peace Tower are alight in Ottawa.

Our Notre Dame Bascilica in all its splendor