Bailing hay!

Got a chance to go bail hay, and I haven't done this since I was 23 or so in Germany of all places!

We phoned up some friends to ask them over to dinner, and they countered with an offer to go bail hay!  Of course we said yes.  Eldest valiantly came with us, but her allergy to basically all things rural - and subsequent wheeziness - meant a trip back into more 'heathful' urban settings.

Youngest however popped an anti-histamine and aside from some hay induced sneezing, worked long and hard.

One tractor died, so we were down to the one that pulled the bailer and the wagon that we loaded behind that:

Tractor, followed by red bailer then followed by wood coloured wagon with three folks stacking hay on it.

Youngest was slinging hay bails on the wagon, and after we filled one load said she didn't want to do it anymore.  I countered that the other guys (all quite big, and all guys) had done three loads.  She countered by noting that they were all three times her size, so it worked out as even.  She had a point.

When we did the math, the biggest guy (age 21 at 210 lbs) was lifting less than a quarter his weight with each bail.  Youngest, was lifting almost half hers...bet she slept well last night.

Riding the hay wagon back on bailes we stowed.  Very very cool day.

A lot of hard work, and a nice crowd of folks.

plus some half grown chickens, ducks and layers,

and some cows.

Very cool outing, I'd definitely do it again.

Ceramic museum

The Gardiner Ceramic Museum in TO has two great exhibits on, one called A Bit of Clay on the Skin which is ceramic jewelry, primarily from Scandinavian and French artists:

We could take pictures here:

These ones looked like turds, and have human hair for cords.....

These ones look like bums, no?

Glands

A little more generally normal....

This sucker is great...and Youngest particularly likes the camel

Made from found jewelry?

Didn't get the names of these artists...

And this was a separate piece of work....I just liked it.

The REALLY cool exhibit though was a block of work by Kathy Venter, her work was AMAZING!

super cool bike racks outside the ROM!

You kinda have to look carefully cause folks have locked their bikes to these, which makes it hard to see them.....what were they thinking!

Love these

visit to a park

Spent the afternoon in a park this week for work (I know, tough gig) and while there I ended up taking a series of photos that are a kind of infant's eye view of the park, they turned out kinda cool, think of it like a baby lying on the grass.

CN Tower

OK, it is insanely expensive, but we had a guest here who's too young to go alone, so Youngest, young Catalan and I went off.....

and it was fun!

Watched the Argos play the Rough Riders....attendance seemed a little low.

Watched a sailing race in the harbour, the wind shift on the last leg was a killer

Stood on a glass floor over a new aquarium they're building!  Holds 14 hippos this glass floor does, so they say.  Not sure how you'd get the hippos up the elevator though.

There it is.

Some strange people go up there, and our tickets also included a threeD movie, which was interesting, all about building the new Boeing 787 airplane, but really very random, it was about building the new Boeing 787 airplane ?!?!?!?!

Also a 'ride' a sort of video log flume with effects, we all got in a pod that they shook and rattled around, sprayed us with water and flicked our legs with cloth-y things.  I think I'd actually been on it before a million years ago, but it was a space shuttle thing, I think....anyway, also rather random, though fun.

And a night time view of the city....cause it's so pretty.

:-(

The house we're renting this year has a king size bed in it.

I don't like it

It makes me feel lonely.