Month: June 2011

  • houses are being built around us ..

    this one across the street looks huge but actually is only 2400 square feet, buyer gets to pick finishing colors

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    behind the side yard of our house to the right ( which i am calling our back yard).for some reason our yard is the storage yard for all their lumber.

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    behind our side yard (my back yard)to the left( this piece of dirt is actually our back yard so now u know why i am calling the side yard our back yard.)confused yet  it is because we are on a corner lot .the front of the house faces  the main road, and the driveway faces the subdivision road,while the rest of the houses face the subdivion road.

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    and the one next to that, still just the basements poured in the 2 to the left of the driveway

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  • erika and i tied the dogs to the veranda and gave then a hose bath, then they vegged on the veranda til they dried.

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    sitting for treats

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    trying to open the gate

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    watching the workmen

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  • erika and alyssa .. going away party at Loblaws cooking school

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  • hot dogs were yummy

    and the dirty dogs waited patiently til we were done.

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  • dirty dogs

    got clean bandannas today, can not wait til we get grass and a fence for them

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  • street meat for dinner

    found these at the superstore, going to try them tonight, first bbq of the year. found all parts to the little bbq and set it up. the big bbq scares me and besides i couldnt move it even if the 2 girls helped me.

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  • i went by the entrance and ended up at the gun club ...they have an amazing view of lake simcoe looking north. an old guy was just locking up,told me to come back when they were open and i could take pics facing south and lake ontario and go thru their trails (not as a target). he gave me directions to purple woods.

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    purple woods

    Purple Woods Conservation Area, the site of the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority’s annual Purple Woods Maple Syrup Festival, is a 17-hectare sugar maple forest and open meadow located in the midst of the provincially significant Oak Ridges Moraine. Here one can use the viewing platform that is only steps from the parking area to get a tremendous view south all the way to Lake Ontario from the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine.

    A short 0.5 km trail allows for a quick stroll down into the hollow. This is where you will find the sugar shack, which is the heart of this operating sugar bush. Visit in mid-March and discover how maple syrup production has changed from early native methods to the modern methods used today (Purple Woods Maple Syrup Festival). Syrup and maple products are also available for sale at this time. If you visit in the spring and summer, you may have the opportunity to see or hear some of the more common forest birds in the canopy of this mature deciduous forest.
     this trail also hooks up to the oak ridges trail along ritson road north, so you can get a longer hike in.

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     the short trail goes down a steep hill,that was easy ,coming back up not so much.

    this kinda creeped me out,came around a corner and saw this,made me think the homeless guy from milne park markham had a summer home......but nobody was home . this trail should  not be done alone ...kinda creepy....

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    seen this on the ground on the way out .....those must have been love shacks !!!!

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    this bird lives on my veranda ...or thinks he does!!!!

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  • erika was watching the dogs today while i was at the spa ...guess i should of told her when you bring the dogs in bring in the food also

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  • happy fathers day Glenn

    it is still saturday here, but we know it is sunday there in aussie land.happy fathers day. here is your gift. i not only bought it but programmed and installed it for you too.

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    does not look too straight there, that was done on purpose so you have something to do when you get home !!!!

    here is your ice cream cake

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    here are your girls eating that ice cream cake for breakfast

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    we are off to boston pizza to celebrate your day ...will let you know how it was.

    HAPPY FATHER'S DAY WE LOVE YOU GLENN!!!!

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    for those of you who do not know what this is .....it is a wireless keyless entry for the garage door......hooked into the automatic garage door opener...so you don't have to carry around the remote that goes in the car!!!

  • darlington nuclear plant waterfront trail

    this 3 km trail i did today is just a tiny part of the 350 km trail that follows the shores of lake ontario from niagra on the lake to quinte west with plans to extend to kingston....come on glenn going to dust off those bikes for your return !!!!

    this is the entrance to the plant (said no tresspassing ...oh well)

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    this is the trail just down the road from the plant

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    Darlington Nuclear



    The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is Ontario Power Generation's newest CANDU (CANadian Deuterium Uranium) nuclear generating station. It is a 4-unit station with a total output of 3,512 megawatts (MW) and is located in the Municipality of Clarington in Durham Region, 70 km east of Toronto. It provides about 20 per cent of Ontario's electricity needs, enough to serve a city of two million people.

    Darlington produces electricity with heat created by nuclear fission using natural uranium fuel. The heat produced by this reaction is transferred, via a separate heavy water heat transport system to boilers where ordinary water is boiled and the resulting steam is used to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity. This electricity is fed into transmission lines that carry the power from the site to residential, commercial and industrial users.

    Safety
    Public and employee safety is the most important consideration when operating an Ontario Power Generation nuclear facility. Like our other nuclear power generating stations, Darlington has been designed and built with multiple barriers to safeguard against the release of radioactive materials. These barriers are protected by careful plant operation and maintenance, regular testing and inspection by our highly qualified staff.

    The Darlington station is licensed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission which regulates the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect health, safety, security and the environment through the Nuclear Safety and Control Act. In addition, the station is subject to other federal and provincial government safety and environmental regulations such as the Environmental Protection Act and the Planning Act. Darlington meets or surpasses all the prescribed regulations.

    Reactor Buildings
    These four structures are made of heavily reinforced concrete (external walls 1.8 m or 6 ft. thick) to enclose the reactors and related equipment. Interior concrete walls also shield personnel from radiation during operation. Each building contains one reactor and four steam generators (boilers). The reactor consists of a large, heavily shielded vessel or calandria which contains 480 fuel channels and 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel that are encased in zircalloy sheathing.

    Vacuum Building
    This 71 m (240 ft.) high cylindrical concrete structure is connected to the reactor buildings by a pressure relief duct and is a unique safety feature of the CANDU system. The vacuum building is maintained at negative atmospheric pressure. Any release of radioactive steam from the pressurized systems would be sucked into the vacuum building, thus preventing its release outside the station.

    Turbine Hall

    This structure houses the turbine hall, shown on the right. It measures approximately 580m (1,900 ft.) long by 137 m (460 ft.) wide by 45 m (145 ft.) high, a space that's approximately 6 football fields long, and twelve storeys high.

    Irradiated Fuel Bays
    Two water-filled pools inside the station store the irradiated fuel once it's removed from the reactors. The pools keep the fuel cool and shield station workers from radiation. Eventually the used fuel will be moved to dry storage containers.

    Tritium Removal Facility
    Tritium is a by-product of the nuclear reaction and it gradually builds up in Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) reactors. To help keep workers safe, and to minimize the amount of tritium going into the environment, a tritium removal facility was opened at the Darlington site in 1990. This plant extracts tritium from heavy water used in OPG's nuclear reactors. The tritium is safely stored in stainless steel containers within a concrete vault.

    Our Commitment to the Future
    Darlington, along with OPG's other generating facilities, plays an important role in keeping Ontario running. It also plays a vital role in keeping our air clean, and will continue to produce large quantities of electricity with no smog producing emissions. In fact, Darlington has already made industrial history by becoming the first nuclear station in North America to be certified under the tough ISO 14001 environmental standard