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

As you know, I now degrade photos when you see them on the blog so that they will not affect performance. Click here to see the photos in their original resolution.

Cool title eh? This refers to the saga of my 70th birthday. Original Plan My birthday occurs in early November which is close to Halloween and the epic Halloween Rocky Horror Picture Show performance. This

Here is the official Halloween Portrait featuring JB Here is Lucy who seems to be taking better to these things lately. Click on Lucy’s photo above for a video; make sure to check your volume.

St. Jacobs is a town north of Waterloo notable for the largest Farmers’ Market in Canada but we were there to ride the volunteer operated Waterloo Central tourist railway. We loved the train ride which

We enjoyed Midland and the drive is quite pleasant if you plan it properly. We decided to return to take our 1 1/2 hour boat trip from Midland through Honey Harbour and Southern Georgian Bay.

Midland is town on the southern shore of Georgian Bay. It is quite accessible from home at around 2 hours drive. We have pondered a visit for quite some time. Most Canadians study the history

Nazim and Rozmin’s cat died today being ancient in years. She was bonded most profoundly to Mumtaz’s mom Dolat. Sam and I called her Raxl, one of many names she answered to. Click on the

I enjoy travelling to McKellar, north east of Parry Sound to attend the annual Interprovincial Music Camp performance on the Sunday before Labour Day. In February this year, I spotted a hotel room available in