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Detail from drinking fountain, Botanical Gardens, Dublin

Nelllie's 90th Birthday surprise party. About to meet unexpected guests.

Sister Peggy from Oregon, sister Theresa from Ireland, and niece Jean from Dublin

Getting ready.

Surprise!

Gilles and Anna made all the pastries and the bread. Denise, Anna, and Anne organized the party.

Jan 4 - 7, 2010
conference
Eric Moshier, Alex Chernov and Jerry Frisch were here for a heater testing workshop

pizza
We fired up the pizza oven

Oct 8/09
fall leaves
Mid-fall sunrise in the garden.

Sept 27/09
bread
Leila's sourdough bread - flour, water, salt + brick oven.

Sept 12/09
diesels
All-diesel fleet. Leila's '88 Volvo wagon with 500,000 km has been replaced with an '09 Jetta Sportwagen

09 Jetta Sportwagen

Sept 10/09

Driving back at night from a heater job in Owen Sound, got as far as Tom Marcantonio's cottage near Sharbot Lake.
Tom helped me on the heater core install.

August 29/09
fire
Cold rainy day. First fire of the season.

August 26/09
garden
Morning in the garden.

August 20/09

Doing a heater core install with Dan Pike, near Watertown, NY.
My last "deliver and install" in the States. Too much border red tape to bother with, anymore.

August 8/09

Prairie Oyster at the Pembroke Waterfront Festival

August 8/09
volvo
Last photo of our beautiful 1988 Volvo wagon with 500,000 km. We drove it to Gatineau to the recyclers, as part of the
Canadian "Retire Your Ride" program.

August 5/09
grandma, emma, true
Leila drove to Tom & Charlene's to visit with Mum, Emma and True.

August 2/09
dahlia
Dahlia

July 18/09

Georgette Fry, workshop stage at the annual Stewart Park Festival in Perth
Seated are Ladies of the Canyon, The Sojourners, and C.R. Avery

Stewart Park

July 17/09
Dahlia
Dahlia in the garden.

July 14/09
heater repair
Rebuilding a 17 year old firebox, north of Rouyn-Noranda.

July 11/09
masonry heater repair
Heater repair.
Peter and Maryanne's heater is 28 yrs old and needed a day's work. Not bad.

July 5/09
garden
Asparagus.

garden
Onion.

June 30 - July 2/09

Rocket stove workshop

June 27/09

Stangers in the Night charity gourmet gala, Montreal
for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

65 restaurants had buffet tables providing an amazing range of selections. The mini-burgers in the centre
are wild boar, and the ones on the right are red deer.

Blue Rodeo were the headliners, with a bunch of other acts. Spectacular sound system.

June 11 - 16 /09 --- Trip to NYC
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Heater callback in Brooklyn, NY

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Coney Island, nearby.

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Lombardi's Pizza, in the Bowery district on Spring Street.
America's first pizzeria.

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Coal burning oven has been in continuous operation since 1905. It has a 13 ft. square hearth, and a flat ceiling.

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The authentic Neopolitan pizza lived up to Lombardi's reputation as one of the best pizzerias in America.

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Puerto Rico Day parade on 5th Ave., near the Guggenheim on the Upper East Side. I was walking back from a
Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at the museum.

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June 6/09

New front steps.

May 28/09

Visit from Ksenia Chumakova, a recently graduated architect who is studying masonry heaters.

May 25/09

Moveable greenhouse over the tomato patch. Blanket on it, for the anticipated frost tonight.

May 20/09

Redoing the front steps

May 17/09

A chilly day, so we lit the heater. Leila made a rhubarb meringue from the first crop of rhubarb coming up in the garden.

May 12/09

Trying out the new pizza oven.

Neapolitan pizza - very thin crust, tomato sauce (crushed tomatoes), mozzarella, drizzle of olive oil.

It cooked in about 60 seconds. Oven dome was 1100 F and the floor was 800 F.
Bottom is just slightly burned, and crispy. Toppings are grilled very fast from above. Centre is still flexible enough that you
can fold it over.