May 19, 2009

• May Long Weekend 09

  Wow it has almost been a year since we moved.  In a few short weeks it will have been a year, BUT I am digressing. 

  This weekend marks the first (of hopefully many!) May Long Weekend, which in its own way is a kinda huge Canadian Tradition.  May Long (aka May 2-4, Victoria Day Weekend) is the un-official start to the summer.  It is normally the turning point in the weather, which then haralds the gardening, camping, hiking, boating, many sportings seasons.  This was our first May Long.  Its wasn’t huge for us in any description, but still it was a sort of introduction.  Ireland has a May Bank Holiday weekend, but some how it just isn’t the same.  Its just a day off.  It doesn’t un-officially signal anything, and its almost guaranteed to rain.

  Our first May Long consisted of Wee Blonde Child losing a stablizer on her bike (which is very entertaining to watch her peddle!); getting some sage advice about financing a new truck; me getting a slight sunburn (and a tongue lashing from my mother for getting one and why wasn’t I wearing sunblock ….); gardening (even if I STILL didn’t get the strawberries in); The Husband sorting out his fishing tackle; the first afternoon spent at the Lake playing, sunning and fishing, and Healthy Weighty Wee Man literally catching himself in the fishing net in the lake; and ended with the selling of our 1992 Ford Tempo.

  Now the pictures….

  

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