Author Archives: Barry

It is generally considered that Canadians are friendly, sharing people but in this instance can I politely request that you keep the censored Polar Vortex to yourselves? While we get some consolation in the fact that your temperatures are WAY … Continue reading →

Last night we were advised to keep one of the water taps running slowly due to the risk of freezing water lines. We woke up to a cloudy cool day, around 2°C with a forecast high of 8. Not as warm … Continue reading →

This will be a short posting this time as not too much happened! It was cold last night (-1°C),  It only got to +8°C, but that was at least 26°C warmer than Ottawa. We both had plenty of “stuff” to … Continue reading →

Hard to believe it, but we arrived a week ago. We have both settled in to trailer life as though we had not been away. Today was shopping day, and we headed off into Brunswick rather than shop locally. On … Continue reading →

Another clear sunny day with temperatures reaching 18°C, the big difference to day was the wind, or lack thereof! We’ve been here almost a week and so far I haven’t felt comfortable with making the first flight of the quad-copter. … Continue reading →

Another coolish night with temperatures down to 2°C, and cloudy in the early morning. The day cleared up and the temperature rose to 18°C with sunshine. This morning we headed out to do some shopping, Lyn needed some wool and … Continue reading →

It’s the weekend, time to relax and do nothing….wait, we do that every day. Another cool night and a cool day, sunny but only climbing to 10°C. We decided that today would be a stay at home day. Lyn started … Continue reading →

Last night the temperature the dropped to 1.5°C but the trailer kept pretty warm. This morning it was clear and sunny so after breakfast we headed off to the beach on Jekyll Island. This year we decided to buy an … Continue reading →

Another sunny wake up, although the temperature was down around 3°C. The furnace kicked in about 20 minutes before we got up so the trailer was warm and cosy for breakfast. We planned on getting out somewhere today, but decided to … Continue reading →

Warm and sunny to start the day, with temperatures climbing up into the high teens (C). A few more setup chores were left to do today. The barbecue needed to be assembled and connected up to the gas supply, that … Continue reading →