GRANITE ROCKS FROM THE NORTH-WHO WANTS THEM?

Adolph was supposed to provide these to a customer in 1998. He no longer wanted them so they ended up on my front lawn. Lots of discussion about them over the years. But it is time for them to go. Would love to sell them!

 So in one piece or cut into slabs or ground up for granite countertops, I don't care. A big truck would need to haul them in one piece.

Buy one or buy both!!

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COLLECTIBLES-DOLLS, STAR WARS, ET, GARFIELD, MICKEY MOUSE, BIG BIRD CHAIR AND OTHER STUFF

 Ready to part with items that may be a collectible to someone else.

Tim Hortons Christmas collection.

Just some of my telephone insulators.

1991 Hudson Bay Christmas bear with catalogue.

Archie comics.

Cabbage patch doll items, clothes and a bag of small figurines.

One of many doll house pieces for Cindy Doll House.

Cuddly dolls.

Large stuffed ET.

Garfield stuff.

Vintage purse for evening.

Barbie ornament.

Little pony and rainbow brite.

Mickey Mouse stuff.

Couple of Star Wars books.

Strawberry shortcake stuff.

Teddy bears.

Original Trivial Pursuit games.

WWE shirt.

I have more things to photograph.

If a collector and interested, PM me in CHAT or email at abdm@rogers.com.

Ask if I have other items as I just may surprise you.

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COLLECTIBLES-JARS, BOTTLES, TELEPHONE INSULATORS

Cindy doll house or for other doll houses.

 And a vintage green ice bucket.

Downsizing means letting go of collectibles.

Do you have some to sell? I do.

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THE GRIEF JOURNEY NEVER REALLY ENDS, DOES IT?

 Do you ever notice people post on Facebook about loved ones who died years and sometimes decades ago?

Our love for someone does not end. But does grief ever really end.

Do triggers like favourite music bring on a memory?

For me organizing stories with picture helps with missing loved ones.

Missing my spouse is every day. So I say goodnight to him as a way to harness my grief.

It depends on the relationship and what it meant to the person. 

Losing a parent as a child has a more profound effect than as a middle age adult. But the love for the parent and the relationship is what brings the meaning.

We have friends that are more than family. Closer sometimes.

There can be ways to grieve that are written in many books. Counselling may help some people. Individual or group.

Being with people who knew the deceased always helps.

Talking about the person and keeping their memory alive is good.

But obsessing can cross a line.

So does the grief journey ever really end? It changes from very intense to being there in some form or another.

Missing someone loved is really life long!

How about you? Are you grieving someone today? Do you miss your loved ones?

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NIAGARA ON THE LAKE WINERIES VISITS OVER THE YEARS

 Niagara on the Lake is a beautiful region in the Niagara area.

It is one of many areas that houses wineries.

Over the years several visits have been made to this area.

Social Club visit with a bus tour group

Jackson- Triggs

Caroline Cellar

Laila

Marynissen

An overnight with Adolph 2013 we revisited the Marynissen Estates.

Pretty sign and grounds at Inniskillin.

Small winery but good to visit.

Muskoka chairs in front of Marynissen.

Sonya and I visited 2018.

We took the wine bus tour.

Another view. Another year of Marynissen.

Peller where we had an inside tour of the facility.

Pillitteri Winery.

That wine tour bus.

A drive to visit the Chateau Des Charmes.

And fields of sunflowers.

2019

Back in 2019 for a Sip and Sizzle event. Each winery with a ticket let us sip some wine and have a small hot appetizer.

Wayne Gretskey estates. Fun place with lots of hockey stuff.

Stratus winery.

Orchard at Pilliteri that we had visited the previous year.

So staying away for two years

Again in 2022 after a recess of visits due to Covid, Sonya and I ventured to the Niagara on the Lake region.

First to a tulip farm in Fenwick.

Then an early Mother's Day lunch at Two Sisters Winery.

Rabbits are the mascot for the winery. Told by our server it is due to the rabbit ragu but I think otherwise. There must be a story.

To top off this visit we went to a new distillery.

Spirits in Niagara.

They use over ripe fruit from the region to make their spirits. Win win for them and the farmers that would need to waste 10% of their crop.

Courtney gave the tour. And I went away with a peach spirit to have to use in drinks over the summer.

They built the distillery in a heritage style like the region.

The region has more than wineries. Farms. Fresh produce. Orchards.

I always buy a bottle of wine at each winery.

Of course one could visit Niagara Falls too.

We hope to make it an annual event again of visiting the many interesting and fun places in this part of Ontario, Canada.

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