{"id":9225,"date":"2019-09-08T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2019-09-14T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T20:01:55","slug":"blog-updates-august-31-to-september-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=9225","title":{"rendered":"Blog Updates August 31 to September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been a delinquent blogger & fallen several days behind in my postings. Sorry about that 🙀. Here is a brief update on what\u2019s been happening:<\/p>\n

Saturday August 31:<\/p>\n

Catherine & Emily & I travelled from Lower Brewers Lockstation to Kingston. That was the end destination point of our trip together.<\/p>\n

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Emily & I finally got a game of Backgammon in the night before.<\/p>\n

We arrived in Kingston in the early afternoon & spent the next couple of days at Confederation Basin Marina in downtown Kingston. We especially enjoyed the hot showers!<\/p>\n

BBQ’d ribs for supper!<\/p>\n

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Sunday September 1:<\/p>\n

We had a slow start to our day & then took the ferry over to Wolfe Island to have lunch at a local restaurant then back on the ferry to Kingston to explore the downtown area. Early in the evening Catherine & I went to see the movie \u201cYesterday\u201d at a downtown cinema.<\/p>\n

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It was a great movie with a lot of Beatles songs in it. Well worth seeing.<\/p>\n

Emily opted to hang out on the boat & do a bit of shopping downtown.<\/p>\n

Monday September 2:<\/p>\n

Catherine & Emily took the morning train home to London. I was sad to see them go. cheered myself up by doing laundry & making updates to the Spanda & SET Togo websites.<\/p>\n

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Support Education Togo (SET) is an international charity established by Don & Heather Barclay & their family & friends. Catherine worked with Heather in London for several years & have been friends ever since.<\/p>\n

Heather & Don needed some assistance with updating their website so I have been helping them out.<\/p>\n

Their education charity has accomplished a lot for children in Togo. Please visit the website & make a donation if you can. https:\/\/supporteducationtogo.org\/#<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday September 3:<\/p>\n

My friends Mike & Pennie Meadows from Goderich Yacht Club joined me in Kingston. They arrived just before supper. Dinner at a nearby pub! We stayed overnight at the marina in Kingston & headed out towards Ottawa the next day.<\/p>\n

Wednesday September 4:<\/p>\n

We got provisions at the downtown grocery store in Kingston in the morning & then started out on our next adventure.<\/p>\n

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Pennie took this photo above of a local fellow riding his motorized paddleboard in the bay just in front of the bascule bridge in Kingston. Very cool to watch him zip around on this thing.<\/p>\n

The locks have now started operating on their fall schedule so we just barely made the last lift up at Kingston Mills.<\/p>\n

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Photo above – on the lower level blueline dock at Kingston Mills.<\/p>\n

Our first night was stop (Wednesday) was at Lower Brewers Lockstation.<\/p>\n

Thursday September 5:<\/p>\n

Thursday morning we set out for Jones Falls. We arrived there just in time to get the last lift up for the day.<\/p>\n

Pennie took the photo below while we were on a little side trip on our way to Jones Falls. Let’s just say that I took Santosha down a very shallow little channel that we should not have been in & I was darn lucky to get out! At least we got a great photo of the turtles sunning themselves!<\/p>\n

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Friday September 6:<\/p>\n

We had a short trip to Chaffeys Lock & stayed overnight at the upper side of the lock. Dinner at the Opinicon Bar & then ice cream at the Ice Cream Shoppe!<\/p>\n

Pennie & Mike couldn’t agree on who had the biggest cone!<\/p>\n

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But cooler heads prevailed & they made up & settled their dispute.<\/p>\n

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Today was also a special family day – my son Steve\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday Steve!<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t disclose his exact age but let\u2019s just say he\u2019s \u201cgetting up there\u201d & holding up well.<\/p>\n

We had a very nice docking spot at Chaffeys – just across the channel from some local boathouses. Mike took this photo below. Very peaceful & idyllic setting, eh – but not for long!<\/p>\n

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Saturday September 7<\/p>\n

We had an exciting start to our morning! About 10:00 pm the night before we were just getting ready to head off to bed when we heard a brief \u201cbang\u201d. It sounded like someone had fallen or dropped some lawn chairs on the dock. We looked out the windows to see what happened but saw nothing & heard no further noises so we all went to bed.<\/p>\n

This is what we saw the next morning. Remember those boathouses across the channel?<\/p>\n

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The driver missed the corner, ran off the road, down the bank & ended up in the boathouse.<\/p>\n

Apparently the driver was a \u201cbit\u201d inebriated & he simply crawled out of the car unharmed & then wandered off somewhere to sleep it off. Crazy things happen – it\u2019s a miracle that nobody was hurt!<\/p>\n

With the morning off to an exciting start we headed out towards Smiths Falls-our destination for the day. We arrived at 3:30 & decided to have dinner at a local sports bar & watch the Women\u2019s US Open Tennis Match Final. I\u2019m not really a very big tennis fan but we had a great time. The bar was packed with fans all cheering on our young Canadian star Bianca Andreescu!<\/p>\n

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Cheers everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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