Day 14 and we had meatloaf

How hot it was in collingwood today!

Today we got up late, must have been all the travelling we did yesterday (!) or all the eating we did maybe. Or maybe just maybe its because we are lazy bums. Either way we got up and went downstairs around half ten eleven. Weirdly there was no one in, so we mooched from the back door through to the computer room to the front room kind of aimlessly for a bit. Unsure really of what to do.

Nataslies Grampa had ran Anne marie to a meeting of some sort and that’s why we were home alone, when Natalie’s grampa came back it was more or less lunchtime so he said he would make us a sandwich. What he had for the sandwich was leftovers from a dinner they had a few nights ago. Something he had made himself but they hadn’t finished and actually, like Christmas turkey, tasted good in a piece in the next few days.

What I am talking about is meatloaf, something I had heard about in movies and tv shows and the like but never actually tried. I think its pretty popular over here or maybe it once was but if im honest I don’t like meatloaf, I tried it itself and didn’t think much but bit the bullet and put it in a sandwich, its just not for me. If Natalie is honest, she doesn’t like meatloaf either, in fact we both put sweet corn relish on it and it effectively covered the taste. But at least we tried it, you know in a year where we are supposed to try new things and that meatloaf was just one such new thing and our opinion seems to be if were offered it again; we will politely decline. After our lunch we went a stroll down Collingwood town, its such a lovely place to go a walk the main street Hurontario Street has great looking buildings and it seems most places you stand for a photograph you are going to end up with a nice background because it really is so picturesque. But the changes from when we were here last are everywhere, the amount of houses being put up is incredible, down the front where the large disused granary is soon going to be surrounded with houses, there is also houses going up on the outskirts as you enter Collingwood, its strange to think where all the new home owners are coming form and also what they are going to do when they are here, its not exactly a hive of business activity after all. It may be that it will fill up with retirees and end up like florida, or rather they come up north in the summer when florida and and Arizona and the likes are too hot and then go back to the hot places in the cooler winters. I should say that I am writing this with absolutely no proof whatsoever and merely musing, but considering most who will read this will have precisely no idea of the places I am writing about then I should maybe shut up and simply pass off my opinion and ramblings as fact.

shirt sleeves rolled up and beer in hand it must be me in this photo!

Some grub thats on sale in the supermarket

natalie in the hot hot sun!

back to work Natalie! stop skiving and smiling for the camera, scrub scrub wash wash!

After dinner we went a wee walk, Natalie and I like going walks especially as the weather up here has been rather nice, today was hot but not too hot and although its cooler at night when we stepped out it was comfortable in short sleeves. We don’t walk too far however, around the block sometimes does, just a wee chance to get away from the tv or the internet and let our dinner go down. Tonight we went out and turned left and walked up Robinson Street, we turned left and wlaked a bit till we reached the back of the YMCA which as I found out when we walked back home is just along from the bottom of Robinson Street. The back of the YMCA has three baseball diamonds and fields and also what I imagine is an outdoor ice rink in the winter. The diamonds were busy with some sort of local league type thing, kind of like a power league five a sides type thing I have played so we sat and watched a game for a bit. The team we watched get smacked all over the place were called diamond dawgs, a clever play on words I suppose what with them implying they are all dawgs and also the fact baseball is played on a diamond and all wrapped up in a cracking Bowie track title pun, they were playing a team from Stayner which is a town near Collingwood. I should mention that they weren’t exactly playing baseball, they were playing slow pitch baseball in which the strike zone is a big plastic square on the ground and you pitch under arm and high and slow to land on this square to record a strike, it looks a good bit easier than full speed baseball anyway. So were watching this and the Stayner team is giving the Dawgs a roasting and up steps a fella who looks confident, he lets the first one drop for a strkie but its clear he is waiting on a good one to try for a home run, he looks as if he is built well enough to hit it hard enough, he takes the next pitch and whacks it toward the fences, he misses but it was a good go and he got as far as third base off it so that was impressive anyway. So this was in the first inning but the Dawgs let ins o many runs they went through the whole line up and by the second inning this guy steps up again, he is only trying to do one thing, homer! This time he does it, its well impressive as he hits out the park. Then as he runs round the bases his team mates call to him to congratulate him; “way to go Dewey!” the guys name was Dewey, he was a grown man and quite a big well built fella and his name was Dewey. My respect disappeared almost instantly and we went home. I mean Dewey? Really?