Looking Back in Time

Have you ever wondered where you come from? Who you’ve descended from? How they lived and what are their stories? I must admit for the longest time I’d never given it a thought until about two years ago on St. Patricks day when I was asked the classic question “Are you Irish?”. I felt quite…

Close-Up

While on a recent camping trip to Silent Lake Provincial Park, I brought along my compact digital camera and was playing around with the built-in macro setting trying to see how close I could get to an object before it started to get blurry. I was quite amazed with some of the photos and am looking…

Camping at Silent Lake Provincial Park

This past weekend was spent with the family at Silent Lake Provincial Park just south of Bancroft, Ontario. This was our second car camping trip with our son Patrick who is almost 2 years old. Back in June 2010, we spent a night camping at the same park and it was fantastic! At the time,…

New House

For those who know us but were left in the dark, we have purchased and moved into a new house. It was the most harrowing experience we have ever undertaken and was about a year in the making. It started with an epic deck rebuild that, followed by a bathroom remodel, then the digging of…

MS Bike Tour 2011

A few weeks back my wife Stephanie, brother Jason and long time friend Mike embarked on an epic journey to help end multiple sclerosis by raising money and partaking in a bike ride that led us roughly 170km from Grand Bend on the shores of Lake Huron to University of Western Ontario in the heart…

New Beginnings

Well… I’m going try my hand at this blogging thing that everyone is talking about. I’ve tried before and lost interest as the blog wasn’t about anything in particular. This time I’ll try to narrow it down to what is current with the family… and I’ll even try to throw in a couple photos here…