Harvest Time!

Living in a city lot we have very limited space for vegetable gardens so each year we try and experiment on our 16'x3' garden plot to see how things will grown. This year we planted Scarlet Runner poles beans, bush beans, tomatoes, chili peppers and pumpkins.

We started the tomatoes and chilli peppers from seed that we purchased from Vesey's Seeds. Although we started the seeds indoors very late in the spring and we transplated when the plants were to small, we still had some success with 4 HUGE tomatoes plants and 2 pepper plants surviving. The tomatoes we picked are called "Juliet" and are like a large grape tomatoe. The peppers are called "Garden Salsa Peppers". The tomatoes taste AMAZING and the peppers are HOT! We BBQ'd some of the peppers and plan on drying and crushing the rest to add in chili and soup over the winter.

Here is a pic of some of the harvested tomatoes and a pepper:



We also planted three pumpkins seeds of the "Little October" variety and ended up with 2 large plants with many little pupkins. More pictures a later....

Matthew turns 7!

Check out the party pics on Matthew's Blog!

Nice day for a family hike!

As today is a holiday, we decided to enjoy the nice weather and to go for a walk/hike and also try to find another geocache. After seach on the web we found a nice NCC trail near the cache "A Bridge too Near" and setout just before lunch. Weather was sunny and about 27C with a nice light breeze. The cache was an easy find so we headed around the 4.2 km loop to continue our hike. The trail cut really close to the Ottawa River near Shirley's Bay, so we stopped there for a break and a snack. It was a nice 1.5 hour outing, so the kids fell fast asleep on the drive home. ;-)

Check out the pics!


Matthew and Anna at the Trail head giving the "Good to go" sign!




Dad is lost again.. trying to find the trail with the GPS ;-)



Nice spot on the river for a snack!



Life is good!

Visitors from Korea!

This August we had visitors from Korea! Tom's brother Tim and his girlfriend, Yun-Hee, arrived August 4th and spend several nights with us before moving on to Montreal then Quebec City and then to visit with our parents in New Brunswick. It was a great visit and we really enjoyed having them here.

New AC!

Well, we have finally updated our gas furnace and central air with high-effeciency products from Trane. Check out the pic of our new 2-ton AC! This was installed just in time for the hot and humid Ottawa summer! Also notice the intake and exhaust for the high-eff furnace. Pretty cool!

To blog or not to blog...

After starting and stopping a family journal and newsletter several times we have decided to jump into the 21st century and create a Blog for the family.

Initial thoughts is that we can use this to record events, activities and to share experiences. It will be interesting to see how this evolves over time.

Thanks for visiting!