In late March Mumtaz travels to Montreal. I follow by car to spend a day; sorry, no photos. We travelled on to Ottawa and visited with family, including visitors from Mumbai India Nurrdin and Shenaz.

We had a great celebration on Pi Day this year. This year was unusual in that we had two pie suppliers and they were both essentially in our neighborhood. I had heard of the Niagara

On March 10, the Town of South Bruce announced that Wiarton Willie passed away peacefully in his sleep. No further details were forthcoming except that the town was immediately embarking on a search for a

Many of you know that I am a long time transit enthusiast even a geek or to use current terminology, a “foamer”. There is a robust international community of transit enthusiasts with strong Canadian and

At around 4am on February 1, Abelfamily.ca was attacked again. I will list the technical details later in the post but I thought that there was room to report on non-technical issues first. I believe

January was a very complicated month this year … Mumtaz’s birthday happens early in the month but the possible dates didn’t work well. Mumtaz was committed to helping out in Montreal for most of the

Every year the Niagara Parkway around Niagara Falls is decorated with lights in late November continuing to mid January. We usually attend each year but haven’t for the last couple of years. We attended just