Finally...Some Scarf Tales...

At long last...here are some of my scarf adventures!

It has been so much fun having the scarf...and since we have some more days of VERY cold temperatures, it's been nice having the scarf to keep me warm! Madeline was very excited to see the scarf because it has two of her favourite colours in it....pink and purple! The picture above is us last Thursday, ready to head out to the bus.

Friday was kind of a boring day for the scarf, as I was at the hospital with Andy. The doctors don't have any idea what he had, they only know what he didn't have. His heart is fine, his arteries are fine, everything is fine. We know though that it was an attack from Satan, because he is trying to stop Andy from doing things that God wants him to do. But...one thing that has come out of this is that Andy is going to pay a little more attention to his diet, and watch what he eats. He was at the Cardiology clinic on Tuesday for a stress test, and again, everything is normal.

I wanted to do some "sight-seeing" with the scarf on Saturday, but between the cold weather and being so tored after Friday, I just didn't have the energy to go out. So this past Tuesday (when the weather was above 0!) Madeline and I took the scarf out.

We headed over to East City here in Peterborough, which is part of the city, but more like a little village in the city. I love it and would love to live in this part of the city. We drove through this tunnel and I bet you don't know what is above the tunnel...

The Peterborough Lift Lock. At first glance it may not look like much, but it's quite an engineering feat. Built in 1904, it is the world's largest hydraulic lift lock.

Here it is looking at it from the front. There are two big boat chambers...during the summer season, one is at the top and one is at the bottom. When boats come, they go into the chamber and I believe the water level is then adjusted a bit, and then they move up or down so that the boats can continue on their way. I've been over the locks while on the local boat cruise, and it really is quite fun.

Rumour has it there is a ghost or two inside the lift lock, as there were some unfortunate deaths that happened during the building of the lift lock. But I won't be going inside any time soon....

Looking the other way, down the river is where people come to skate in the winter. Though not as long a skating rink as on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, it's still a pretty cool place to come and skate. The last two years it wasn't as cold and not much (if any) skating was done. But this year has been much better for skating and hockey games.

And finally...one last big piece of news that the scarf is able to help me share. Part of the reason I've been so tired (and sick) lately is because we will be having a new addition to our family sometime around August 31!!!! I've been much, much more tired and nauseous than I was when I had Madeline, but that seems to slowly be going away (thank goodness). It was kind of nice timing to have had the scarf now while sharing this news.

I've had fun with the scarf and will be sad to see it go, but I've made so many wonderful friends that in some way the scarf will kind of live forever!

My request has gone in to Mrs. Mac inquiring as to the whereabouts of the next sister to receive the scarf, and I will be mailing it out tomorrow. I wonder where it will be going????