It’s been 5 months since my last update – sometimes life gets in the way and blogs get left behind; that’s all I have to say about that. I will try to update on a more regular basis starting soon 
. This will be just a short update to get the ball rolling . So over the last few months spring finished, summer came and went, and autumn started. There hasn’t been a lot of traveling, except driving around the local back roads; checking out the sheep and cows; visiting the local vineyard; going to the Aylmer Fair; or checking out the small ports down along the lakeside; it is such a pretty area around here We do have a cruise booked for later this year … the usual Mexico Riviera one … but current events may result in the cruise being postponed. The weather this year has been … different ☹. There have been more floods, tornadoes, cooler periods than normal … more forest fires and heat waves across the south …and surprisingly for the first time since 1914 there has not been a hurricane in the Atlantic by the end of September. ...And of course it wouldn't be the end of September beginning of October without leaves starting to fall ... let's see if we can bag more than the 128 bags of leaves that we took to the recycle last year!! 🙂 We've already bagged or burned approximately 1423 pine cones from our 200 foot White Fir ... and many more of those to come!! 🙂 Previously I had been spending way too much time on politics and political views …I know I said that the last time would be the last time; however as it turns out there has been way too much idiocy and insanity from the Clown to the South to be able to keep up – suffice it to say the man is unhinged and should be put down. From now on I will try to concentrate on food, movie and series reviews and travel – travel stories from the past, and hopefully future travel stories and cruises to come .
On the cooking front: over the last five months we have had a lot of home cooking: Steaks; Hamburgers; Chicken Curries; Chicken and Pastrami Paninis; Smoked Leg of Lamb; Smoked Ham, Smoked Beef, Cabbage Roll Soup; Liver and Onions with Sweet Potatoes; Meatball Subs; Philly Steak Subs; Italian Subs; Shepherd Pie; Ham and Cheese Quiches; Rendangs; Tamarind Pork and many other dishes . More recipes to come in the near future – but maybe not here I’ve been working on a new web site that is primarily about cooking – hopefully it will be up soon. “and some for the boy” (still under construction)
On the Netflix front: we’ve watched a few series in the past month - Mainly medical ones with a few Canadian police/crime drama/comedies thrown in. . We finished watching ‘The Resident’ – it’s not bad but the storyline is almost split 50/50 between ER drama and personal life; almost like a Telenovela but with better acting We finished watching ‘New Amsterdam’ another medical drama, well written and well acted – unfortunately Season 5 isn’t available in Canada so not sure how it ended … We are currently watching ‘ER’ .all 15 Seasons and over 311 episodes probably the best ever procedural medical drama series ever made (even better than ‘The Pitt’, but that’s just starting, so who knows , and ofc both series have Noah Wyle in them);. Canadian series included ‘Cardinal’ – a police mystery drama taking place in Northern Ontario; quite well written and acted; ‘Rookie Blue’ 5 seasons of watching Police Rookies go from rookies to seasoned veterans in Toronto – excellent series;… currently watching ‘Private Eyes’ comedy private eye series filmed in and around Toronto; light watching but well done; I watched ‘Outlander’ .historical fantasy drama based on the same named books by Diana Gabaldon – if you like Scottish and American history / romance from the mid 1700’s then this is a series for you . More, complete reviews are coming in the near future
On to Sports:
On the NHL front –the Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t make the playoffs ☹. Seattle Kraken didn’t make the playoffs ☹ Both teams haven’t lost a regular season game yet – that starts this week
On the MLB front – Regular season started at the beginning of April and just ended this past week – both Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners failed to make the playoffs.
On to golf … The regular 2026 PGA Tour finished with Scottie Schleffer winning the Fedex Championship.. again Canadians for the most part didn’t do all that well during the season – none finished in the top 50 and are currently in the Fedex Fall Series hoping to either break the top 60 to be able to play in select events in 2027 or just struggling to keep their PGA cards at all!! NFL news – The regular season is in it’s third week, my favorite teams are doing well – Seattle Seahawks are off to a good start, they are 2-1; Vegas Raiders are 3-0; and Buffalo Bills are 3-0. . Go ‘Hawks!! Go Raiders!! Go Bills!!
Have a great and safe month … we will see you in a bit!!