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| Planning another trip in May A friend is going to be visiting NY and Boston on her way to the UK, so we have to drive down and meet her. So sometime in May we maybe driving this route http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Timmins,+ON,+Canada&daddr=toronto+to:Ithaca,+Tompkins,+New+York,+United+States+to:State+College+to:Boston,+MA,+USA+to:Timmins,+ON,+Canada&hl=en&geocode=Fcmv4wIdtOom-ynNP81R3aU8TTF2nOr-aun4dw%3BFdlamgIdfadE-ynTVA9UrjQriDFPxT1snM6Gxw%3BFbSXhwIdIcFw-yktdZxteIHQiTH52fP6uxyxwg%3BFRW6bwIdSE5c-yln61n4M6LOiTEPFZzFIF0G9A%3BFZ9WhgIdw7bD-ykbMT0NLWXjiTGg6GIBJL98eA%3BFcmv4wIdtOom-ynNP81R3aU8TTF2nOr-aun4dw&mra=pe&mrcr=1,2&sll=44.590467,-76.35498&sspn=11.015391,19.665527&ie=UTF8&ll=44.43378,-76.574707&spn=11.044863,19.665527&z=6 | | |
| I really need to cook Indian Food more often, I just tried my hand at one of my favourite dishes: Agloo Sag otherwise known as spinach and potato curry. It's a simple spices in pan with chopped garlic and chilli, add semi/mostly-cooked potatoes, add fresh spinach stir for a bit till spinach reduces and serve. I served it with Naan Bread and natural yogurt. So good!
Anyway while we were chowing down I realised that this was probably the first vegetarian dish that we had prepared and ate together at home, and it was super tasty and not lacking anything. I will probably continue the trend once every week or so just for bugetary reasons!
Also I'm glad that I actually have a tasty vege and easily vegan option in my cooking repitoire for when people come visit in Feb! | | |
| So to try and motivate myself to actually record details of my various big trips and travels, I have decided to take part in NaNoWriMo. Now technically it is for fictional writing but hey rules are meant to be broken!
So instead of spam my regular blog with 2000 words a day I've created a dreamwidth account, also Xanga's editing system for images in particular was beginning to irritate me.
So starting tomorrow I shall begin to write the tale of my epic road trip with friends from Timmins, Ontario to San Diego for Comic Con 2009.
The Dreamwidth account is here | | |
| So we have a lot of car projects on the go at the moment.
We sold the Nissan Sentra and made $2000 in the process.
So we were down to only 5 vehicles!
We do still have a Nissan Sentra parts car, so the brother in law was keeping an eye out on deals so that this car could be fixed up, so on Thanksgiving weekend we are heading down to Toronto to pick up the Nissan Sentra 2002 we have just bought via him for $800.
Back up to 6!
In the meantime we are trying to get the little truck ready for the winter, by we I mean I;m sitting at the shop playing on the internet and Dan and his brother are doing all the work, making lots of dirt and noise, at the moment the box and wheels and exhaust is off it, I should take photos of the process. You have to coat the frame with rust inhibiting paint up here just so it will last a few years! So truck is in pieces.
We are driving Dan's VW Golf GTI at the moment, though I keep getting worried that the front bumper is going to fall off when i go through a pothole! It sorta leaks when it's raining through the top of the windscreen and the heater doesn't work so I had to scrape the ice off the other morning by hand, I'm looking forward to picking up the Nissan!
The project Sirrocco is on hold, it just got moved to his brothers shed out of storage.
The project Cortina has had a boost in the form of a 1980's Mustang that Dan picked up last weekend to chop up and use as the frame, it is actually in pretty good shape for a $500 parts car. To quote Dan: If you want to get a car to chop up, it's always in good running condition, as soon as you buy something to use everything falls apart.
So total count is 7!
Oh and 2 snowmobiles........
I'm in westie/redneck heaven!
And to end on that note we spent last weekend at the local races, the boys want to enter a team for this next year...
  
Cause it just isn't the races till you have a field of burning wrecks.
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| Well my pre-emptive snowmobile buying seems to have brought on the winter!
It started snowing yesterday the 30th September 2009, so the snow just snuck into September this year.
Last weekend we purchased one snowmobile, apparently on inspection from people that know what they are looking at the last ones I posted were going to blow up soon. So instead we got a 2003 Skidoo MXZ 550 fan, it is so pretty, it looks exactly like the one below:
I actually know about snowmobiles now!
I know the difference between 2 stoke and 4 stroke, and 3 cylinder, fan cooled or liquid cooled. We are probably going to get two fan cooled engines, as the parts are cheaper and they are more reliable. The downside is they don't run so fast in warm weather. Which is okay as it's always around -10 to -20 in winter up here! Their max speed is in -30 and will be around 80mph on a straight trail.
The other one which we are going to look at on the weekend is a 2002 Skidoo Legend 500 fan, it is currently owned by a 70 year old! She bought it as a retirement present to herself. I can't wait to see it, it's going to be predominantly my one as it's less sporty than the MXZ. It shall look like the one below:
So yeah winter is closing in on Northern Ontario, work is getting quieter, it's not a mad stressful rush any more. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with myself all winter, probably take a few days off to go snowmobiling!
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