Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Just a quick post to wish y’all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! For any friends or family (or the curious) you can download a .pdf copy of our Family Christmas letter here. Hope everyone has a very safe and fun-filled Holiday season! See y’all on ’08!

TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

4th Georgetown a job well done

Wow, what an awesome day! Sara, Chris and I had a ton of fun. About 40 of us, from 4th Georgetown (Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers, parents and leaders) all met up this morning at St. Andrews United in Georgetown and hiked down to Hungry Hollow to Clean up some of the Silver Creek that runs [...]

2007 Greater Halton Cuboree

Wow! We had an awesome weekend! Last weekend we had about 75 Cubs and Leaders from Greater Halton get together for a camp at Valens Conservation Area in Cambridge. We did the camp opening Friday night and successfully executed a traditional Jungle Opening (though it wouldn’t win any awards, lol).

Year end camp – African Lion Safari

Wow! what an awesome weekend! (View a photo slide show of the weekend) Our Cub Pack (4th Georgetown) spent the weekend at African Lion Safari (Cambridge). Friday Grey Brother headed out late morning to pick our site and begin setting everything up. Bagheera, myself and our families were going to head out mid afternoon to [...]

Happy Father’s Day

Another year has past and it’s once again Father’s Day. I’m sitting here, thinking of all the things I’ve done with my Dad throughout my life, all the great memories and my thoughts turn to my own kids and of the things we’ve done, the memories created and that are yet to be. I’ve been [...]

2007 Walk for a Cure

This morning we checked in for the walk just after 9am. The weather was awesome and we had a nice bonus when we arrived they actually had room in the disabled parking this year! Bert hadn’t been doing very well the past month or so but happily she was feeling good from the start and [...]

Boycott Petro Canada – BS

Ok now I really have a bit of a bug up my a** on this one.. How many times over the past 5 years or so have you seen this or a similar email??? Hello Everyone, This really sounds like it could make the difference. Now this makes more sense that just not buying gas [...]

Sponsor Ron in the 2007 JDRF Walk for a Cure

For the last 3 years our family has participated in the annual Walk for a Cure to raise money to help find a Cure for Juvenile Diabetes (Type 1 Diabetes). As each year passes, Berta and Chris struggle to maintain the best control over their blood sugars that they can, and battle the complications and [...]

Jamboree on the Trail 2007

So we all met up at the entrance to the Limehouse trail and started out on our JOTT. One of the members of the Limehouse preservation group (sorry the names escape me) met us and gave us a fantastic background on Limehouse and the famous Kilns. Very cool! After looking at the remnants of various [...]

Great weekend workin’ outside

Another great weekend out of doors! Friday night we all watched “The Lake House” with Sandra Bullock and Keano Reeves. Awesome flick! Saturday I headed over to Bill’s (brother-in-law) gave him a hand emptying some mulch and spreading on his lawn. When we were almost done I remembered that I’d forgotten to mention a tree [...]