Working from Home

Every time work gets stressful and busy I dream of ways I could work from home, at least part of the time. I don't want to be a hermit, but it would be nice to work a few less hours or work from home, for the same amount of money of course. It's especially driven home when I do work a couple hours from home and get more done, then when I'm at the office.
Here's a favourite website I go to, to dream of not just working from home, but having an "office" to work from at home. Shedworking
Sounds a little primitive, but you should see some of the things people come up with, primitive is the furthest from what it is, some of them are downright extravagant.

Personally I would situate mine out past the pasture near the woods and brook.






And if I can't have a yurt or a shed, I would like a treehouse.

A tree house.
A free house.
A secret you and me house.
A high up in the leafy branches.
A happy as can be house.
A street house.
A neat house.
A be sure to wipe your feet house,
is not the kind of house for me.
Let's go and live in a treehouse.

TreeHouse
--Shel Silverstein

Montezuma Wetlands

We went to Montezuma Wildlife Refuge on Saturday. We got a pretty good list of birds, mostly water fowl: great blue heron, starling, king fisher, canada geese, killdeer, norther shoveler, green winged teal, pied bill greebe, gadwall, mallard, crow, american coot, widgeon, ring necked duck, ruddy duck, wood duck, black duck, snow geese, osprey, house sparrow.
Part of Montezuma is a drive through area where you are only allowed to get out of the car at designated observation areas, you can stop all you want everywhere else, you just have to stay in the car. This is to protect the wildlife habitat as much as possible. While we were sitting in the car trying to identify one of the ducks I kept hearing this weird chatter/squeaking noise. I finally asked Andrew; "What is making that NOISE?" He leaned out the car window further, looked up and shouted "EAGLES, BALD EAGLES"! There were two of them soaring back and forth over our car, screeching, and they were only 20-30 feet up. I grabbed my camera and jumped out of the car (screw the rules for BALD EAGLES). But they decided we were no longer any fun, and proceeded to dive bomb the ducks and geese, causing them to all take off, quacking in apparent terror.

Toronto-Labour Day

Our Group: Me, Erika, David, Michael, Deb, Mark, Jolene, Joe

Toronto Skyline

Joe heading to the clothing optional beach

Erika, Mark, & Kim

Air Show

Snowbirds

I didn't realize what this picture was until I had it up on my computer. This picture has ONLY been cropped!

Happy Thanksgiving

We made stuffing, veggie turkey, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, & peas. Along with Pumpkin and Apple Pie and sparkling cranberry juice to top it all off. It was very yummy. Unfortunately, I was unable to track down any rutabaga/turnip, so that will have to wait for American Thanksgiving, it's my favourite root vegetable. We got to share our meal with Andrew's Uncle Milt, Dave, and Gary and his cousin Corey. It was good seeing them all again, it's been quite awhile. They were just passing through on their way back home from Mass. and since we live so close off the thruway it wasn't much of a detour, and a home cooked meal.