A couple of months ago I posted that I noticed a GoogleMaps car recording the area of Newfoundland that I was vacationing in. Well I noticed a CBC.ca news article today reporting that the pictures from that area were published.

In their words:

Street View is an online application that provides a 360-degree ground-level view of cities, compiled from photos taken by Google. The company has been collecting images of Canadian cities since 2007, with the help of vehicles that drive through neighbourhoods with cameras mounted on them.

I checked out the area on GoogleMaps and sure enough, I found myself on there, out in the driveway rifling through the back of my truck. I created a little slideshow of what I found for your amusement.

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Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to a promotional event put off by a local information technology services vendor (Bulletproof Solutions) partnered with Cisco. They had rented a local racing oval and secured a couple of racecars and, you guessed it, I got to drive one!

It was quite a rush to say the least! Check out the photos in the stack below. Click to see more.

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What a weekend! Today (Monday) was a provincial holiday (New Brunswick Day) and as such a day off work. I decided to take last Friday off as a vacation day giving me a long, loooong weekend.

Friday was a day for chores. I had been putting off staining the deck boards out back all summer. I got up early to beat the sun and stay in the shade as I worked around the deck with the stain. Friday afternoon: Grocery shopping.

But Saturday is when the fun started. Up early and off to Petitcodiac for a run on the four-wheelers. It was a run organized by a local ATV club. Roughly 65 machines hit the 115 km ride, weaving through the trees and tearing up the mud. We always enjoy four-wheeling regardless of the weather or the location. We got back and cleaned up by about 7:30 at night. Donna was passed out on the couch and I was passed out in the chair when my phone rang with an invitation to go playing pool with a couple of buddies. Up and out the door to play pool, returning just before 1 am.

Sunday morning we got a call from some other friends asking if we were interested in going for a drive, a hike and a picnic down around St. Martins. We hadn’t been to St. Martins in several years. What used to be an interesting beach with shorelines eroded by millenniums of the world’s highest tides is now a beautiful groomed hiking park on the Bay of Fundy coast. It was mostly driving, a fair amount of eating, and just a little bit of hiking, but a wonderful day. We topped it off with a fattening meal at the Irving Big Stop Restaurant in Salisbury, an over-sized ice cream cone from Kings Cones and a cold drink of rum in the screened gazebo on our back deck. Another day full from start to finish.

Monday… totally vegged out and did nothing. I think I’ll sleep well tonight.

That’s it. Our weekend in a nutshell. Click the picture for more photos of our hike in St. Martins.

P.S. Happy Birthday Sharon. Happy Birthday Uncle Pat.

Several weeks ago my wife and I joined several other couples on an ATV ride in Springhill, Nova Scotia. It was early spring and the leaves were just starting to come out on the trees. The area we went riding in was interwoven with all kinds of trails; some technical and slow, others wide open and fast. It was supposed to rain that day, but the weather gods showed some mercy and only sprinkled on us for a few minutes. Check out the pics below. They don’t do the day justice, but you’ll get the idea that it was a pile of fun.

This post flags the conclusion of my alphabet series. For the past two months I’ve been publishing posts with subjects starting with the letters of the alphabet in reverse order. This exercise proved to be more challenging than I thought it might. I had actually intended to have it complete in a month. Oh well…

Here’s that photo slideshow I mentioned earlier. Click the stack of photos to flip to the next picture. Enjoy!

Renee is 24 years old today! Wow! My parents' first grandchild is almost a quarter of a century old… Now, doesn't that make everyone feel old?

Happy Birthday, Renee!

April is a big month for birthdays in my family. April 11 has a double hit. And quite a hit it is. Both birthday babies are hitting milestones. (Did I say "hit" enough yet?) Jamie is a big one oh today. That's right… 10 years old! Double digits! A big happy birthday to you, Jamie!!! Mandy. How does it feel to be 40? Yes… four zero… forty. Closer to 50 than 20. Have a good one! From the look of this picture, it is driving you crazy. I know, I've been there a whole five days so far.