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Lisa Stokes

Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus

  • Carabram Park Community Ice Rink – Continued

    I opened the rink on January 16 from 4-8pm after four days of flooding.  It wasn’t perfect but it was good enough.  I was quite curious to see how it held up when I headed over to the park at 8pm for the evening maintenance.  Newman and I were the only volunteers that night…

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  • Carabram Park Community Ice Rink

    I last wrote about my Community Ice Rink on December 11 when a group of us shovelled an area of 50×100 feet, during a snowstorm, to create banks in which to hold water when I flood.  It took us 90 minutes, and it was too late, and I was too tired when we finished,…

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  • The Year I Will Get Organized

    I like to think of myself as an organized person, but getting organized and staying organized takes time and dedication and I don’t always spend enough time on it.  I have set myself the goal of become more organized this year.  When I come across something that takes extra time every time I do…

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  • Sunday January 4 – Preparing Firewood

    We’ve had a small amount of wood sitting in the garage for the years when the damper was broken and we weren’t using the fireplace, but it didn’t take long to burn through that with fires on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and with Alun finding his inner pyromaniac yesterday and today.…

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  • Thursday January 1 – New Year’s Day

    We had lots of help cleaning up the party last night including help from 11 year old Ariel and 9 year old Olivia who were having so much fun being up late that they preferred to help clean rather than go to bed.  The food was put away, the dishes cleared and washed and…

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  • Wednesday December 31 – New Year’s Eve

    Our overnight guests arrived last night and were very helpful in preparing for our annual New Year’s Eve party.  They brought Trystan with them.  He had been staying in St. Thomas with them since Boxing Day. Here’s a picture of Trystan and me. We have been having a New Year’s Eve party since 1999…

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  • Monday December 29 – Room Three Completed

    We had hoped to be done the three room renovations by Christmas but lost a few weeks when Michael had to travel to the UK unexpectedly.  Trystan and Owen were able to move into Trystan’s new room on Christmas Eve.  We took Christmas Day off and got right back at it on Boxing Day…

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  • Thursday December 25 – Christmas Day

    Each year as the children age we start Christmas Day later.  Compromises are still made – ten year old Owen would prefer 7am and seventeen year old Megan would prefer noon.  This year we settled on 9am. For the first time we didn’t leave out a snack for Santa.  Here is the tree just…

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  • Sunday December 21 – Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking

    Yesterday morning Patti and I met for our usual run in the Etobicoke Creek valley followed by refreshments at Second Cup.  We usually run for some number of minutes (up to ten), walk for a minute and then repeat until we have gone about 6.5 kilometres.  One of us wears a watch and keeps…

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  • Finished Room Two of Three

    We have finished turning my old sewing room into Trystan’s room.  Most of the furniture from Trystan’s and Owen’s old room has been moved to Trystan’s room.  Only one dresser and night table will move back.  When we have company Owen will temporarily move into Trystan’s room into the second bed and his room…

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