Month: November 2020

When “school” was finished, we went for a ride with Dad on a work appointment. While he went off to show the property, we stayed in the truck with Mom and looked for a place to eat lunch. We decided to go to Tim Horton’s to get lunch because we were hungry and it was the closest place to where we were. My brother ordered a bagel and I had a bacon breakfast wrap. I really did love this adventure because I got to see my aunt, uncle and cousins for a few minutes. Done. -According to L.

This is where we throw our heads back and laugh. We love our little L. She’s adorable with her stories. We are definitely giving her props for her introduction to this post. She now wants to stop and publish.

M.: It has to be a little longer.

L.: Why? Just publish it.

J.: Wut?

M.: When you’re writing a blog, people like a little bit more to read than a small summary of an adventure.

L.: JUST PUBLISH IT.

M.: But I want to say something.

J.: Me too.

L.: NO! Just publish it!

M.: Why does it have to be short? Is there anything else to the adventure?

L.: UwU

J.: 🚘

M.: And now we have lost context of our topic. Do you know what that is?

J.: We lost our topic?

L.: And we are publishing it. And stacking before we publish it.

M.: It means we went off topic. The title is “Our Port Colborne Adventure” and we only touched on our outing in a one short paragraph. J, did you enjoy any part of the outing?

J.: I enjoyed the truck ride.

M.: Did you look for any deer in the fields?

J & L: Nope. But we founds lots of punch buggies to punch you on the way there and back home.

M.: Right. So while they are distracted with each other, I’ll take this opportunity to say a little more.

The tall grass fields along the roads have now turned a light golden brown and the leaves on the trees have mostly disappeared. Looking for deer in these fields is always fun. Just like looking for coyote which are harder to spot. Nothing was seen though. Instead the usual cows and goats were spotted which signals us to all moo or… what does a goat say? Anyways. We did take an unusual route back home and drove through a little hamlet. There were some interesting houses, many old rusting vehicles parked in yards, a lot of wagon wheels and a lot of accumulating old items in yards resembling junkyards or hoarders. It made us think about our own home and how we live. We try to rid ourselves of unwanted items regularly as we live in a smaller space.

J.: I’m back. What does rid mean?

M.: In this it means to relieve yourself of something – to get rid of.

J.: What does unwanted mean?

M.: Not wanted.

J.: Back to the story.

M.: Could you imagine living in a place that is over cluttered inside and out?

J.: Yup. I can imagine.

M.: Would you like it?

J.: Nope. It’d be a nightmare.

M.: So, is it a good thing that we clear things out and give to good will?

J.: Yup.

M.: An interesting end to our Port Colborne Adventure this time, eh?

J.: Yup. Also I want to hear more of the story.

M.: This is it.

J.: Tell me another one. Tell me another story.

M.: We’ll write more next week. Maybe we can get L. to elaborate more on her adventures. lol

J.: XD

By L., J., & M.

L.: K. Now Publish!!!

A whirlwind of activity had swept through this week. Between work, work, more work, the kids and other activities, it has been a hectic week. Thursday, instead of our normal posting, it saw us packed in the truck and moving across the region for some time out of the house incorporated into some work appointments.

The kids brought along some school work to do on the move. I brought some Halloween candy in my pockets to fill the time while we were in the truck waiting for work appointment(s) to complete. It was a nice sunny Fall day out. So it was definitely worth taking advantage of. We found ourselves in an area that should be familiar but it wasn’t because of all the newer houses and neighbourhoods that was built over the last decade or so. I’m still trying to process how things had changed in the area as I had not been that way in so long.

Our next appointment brought us back to our little city. Then off for a little fun in the next town over via “our scenic” route. We saw a new cell tower being put up and it reminded us of a prop from a very popular movie some years ago. It was massive. We detoured off the road into a quarry entrance to find heavy equipment maneuvering and golf greens further down in the quarry. It wasn’t a complete course. Just a few holes on greens. We will go back to explore properly on foot later on.

We popped back up and out to the road and continued on our drive just looking out the windows to spot anything new or different to explore. The only thing we noted before stopping for lunch was that a vineyard had netted some of their grapes for late harvest or ice wine.

We stopped into old town Niagara on the Lake for a quick bite to eat and drink and then we took our goodies to a spot where we could park and look out onto the lake. We didn’t stay long. We didn’t say much. We just tried to figure out how to use an app on our phones and ate our lunch.

Then back up the escarpment to another quick appointment and finally home. It was hard for the kids to do their school work this day because they were more interested in what was going on in the environment. Movement these days are limited so even in our small outings, everything draws their eyes.

So Friday and Saturday came and went fast and filled with a combination of work, the kids’ schooling and house work. Lo and behold, the Sunday edition. Other than that, I am yawning in the afternoon typing this and am ready for a nap… that’s not going to happen. Back to laundry I go. I hope your Sunday is a bit more adventurous than mine today.

The day was Saturday. Crazy stuff was happening. Excitement was in the air. It was a full moon – a blue moon in fact (the second full moon in a month). We waited for Mom to come home from work to start preparing for our evening. COVID made things interesting for us too.

We got into our costumes. Mine, I made myself. Yeet. I got a white t-shirt and white pants and wrote “YEET” all over them. It’s an expression, mom. Okay. Moving on. My sister chose to be a character from a movie she spent a lot of money on the costume and accessories. Mom spent a half hour doing her face make up and her hair. It was probably longer. About 5 pm, we left the house to meet up with friends (in our COVID bubble) for dinner and then to go out to trick or treat.

We waited until it got dark and then left their place to trick or treat in their neighbourhood. There were a lot of houses to go to. We were all really happy. When we got back, the real fun began. There was candy dropped everywhere in house. Once we calmed down a little and were out of our coats and gloves, we got flashlights and the adults turned off the lights. ALL the lights! The candy hunt began.

We had to use our flashlights to find all the candy in the dark and pick it up. Whatever we found we kept. It was awesome. We were screaming with excitement and busy scurrying through the house in the dark finding the goods. Once all the candy was found, the light went on and my dad was looking for candy left over. It was funny because there was none left to be found. We were crazy.

There were a few more games, like eat donuts off a string without using your hands and stick your hand in a bowl (or two) to figure out what was inside. Yeah, I didn’t do that one. Too squishy and I don’t like slime. My sister did one bowl. It was jello and fake worms. We ran out into the back yard with our flashlights. We raced. We played a murder mystery game. We had sparklers. When we came back in, we did a craft and then we just played all over the house. Some of us ate some of our candy. Mom made sure she put the candy we got from trick or treating in separate bags. So we were only snacking on the candy that we picked up from in the house supplied by our parents so it was safe to eat.

By 10 pm my sister was tired and ready to go home. I wasn’t. I was having so much fun. It was good to be with friends. In comparison to past Halloweens, this one was the best. My sister thinks it was the best too. No thanks to COVID but to my friends parents’ ingenuity (clever and inventive). We hope they do it again next year.

By M. & J. Mom was too slow to type so J. did. 😉 L. did the edit.