Holga Summer

Here are some of the snapshots Alison's been taking with the Holga camera I gave her. Some of them are pretty psychedelic. I must say, there certainly has been a lot of fun going on this summer, and it's not over yet!

We're Back

It was really great: hanging out with seldom-seen friends and their kids and dogs in Elysian settings. There was lots of swimming, biking, reading, chatting, eating, and drinking, as expected. Also some frisbee, chess, fireworks, spectacular meteor showers, a few UFO sightings, and I even played a 9-hole round of golf! Alison is working on photographic evidence. My nose is back in grindstoneland. Life is still sweet, just less leisurely.

Made It!

I've been working like a maniac for some time, but I finally got to the end of things, at least temporarily, and now it's time for a vacation! Yahoo! We spent all of today picking up necessary and not so necessary supplies, packing the car, and generally getting things in order. I bought a Kobo e-reader from Chapters (on sale this weekend only) and loaded it up with e-books. Actually, it came with 100 classics already on it. Pretty neat.

We're gonna do some camping and then some cottaging with friends. We've got the swimsuits. We've got the bikes. We've got a cooler full of food and an iPod full of summery tunage. No computers will be sat in front of for a full week. There's a country music festival going on in the middle of Halifax right now which we will be leaving behind early tomorrow morning. Life is sweet.

Party in the Woods

Happy long weekend, everyone. Assuming you had a long weekend. Do all parts of the country get one? I was never clear on that.

Here in Halifax we had Natal Day. We went to a great annual party called Donstock, which is where a piece of land outside of New Glasgow — owned by our friend Dave's uncle Don — gets taken over for the weekend by hardcore aging partiers who camp out and play live music and drink a lot. This was the fifth year it's happened, but our first time. We'll be back for sure, 'cause it was really fun.

It's a beautiful lot on a lake, with a big field where the concert happens and a couple of spectacular waterfalls in which to frolic. Everyone was incredibly friendly, the music was great, and there was even a giant bonfire. I went to bed before the show was over, but I kept getting woken up every five minutes by the elastic "glump" of frogs and the first four bars of "Raw Power". And I didn't even mind because it sounded so good. Definitely worth the two-and-a-half hour drive each way.