Perth, Almonte, happy trails

What a trip! We had errands. I had to pick up a prescription, and print some photos for my client. I'd snapped photos of their barn cats, and she wanted to give them to her daughter as a present.

We followed a mobile home into town. Long and wide, a bit tricky driving! It was a wide load, going right through town!


Have you tried to print photos lately?! The grocery store used to be a good place, but they don't have the machines anymore.
First stop, Shopper's Drug Mart. The machine doesn't accept Apple devices, nor, apparently, a memory card with photos from an Apple product. Next stop, a local printing store. They only print 4 x 6s. I had them printed, but I wanted better!

Off to Almonte (51 km on back roads)  to pick up my refurbished nesting box. It had holes in the barn board. (Nesting box #3!) Also, I was dropping off some of my books for a Senior's Conference in September to be used as door prizes. (Gotta get rid of them somehow!)


The fields look lovely, everything is growing. The invasive purple loosestrife isn't as bad as they thought: beans, wheat, corn.


Next, off to the store to print the photos, if I could. I asked one clerk, and she suggested the drug store. There was a Rexall, so we tried that. Sure enough, a Kodak printing kiosk. I prinedt three collages size 8 x 10" and I was quite pleased with the result! My client can't really see them well, but her daughter can! This is one of them! The barn cats are usually afraid of me, this was a surprise!

Almonte is refurbishing a hydro dam. These are the latest. (Almonte Hydro Dam Progress)


Back to their house to deliver the photos (another 41km)!

I did up some turkey burgers for dinner, and a storm rolled in. There was a rainbow at the end.

After the storm...we went into town

Hubby needed some more supplements (calcium, etc.) in Carleton Place. When we left, it was a lovely, sunny part of the day. That soon changed.

We tootled on up to Almonte for bird seed and stuff for our lonely robin. Yes, it's quite common to have robins here in southern Ontario, but normally in groups. Our red-breasted buddy is on his lonesome.

Bob suggested a suet with meal worms and fruit in it. Also, dried mealworms. I'll keep you posted.

First, there have been lots of these wide loads along the way. They travel highway #7, stopping at Penny's overnight in Perth. Lots of motels, and large parking spaces, methinks.

Wednesday, Feb. 17th

The radar looked sinister, to me, but hubby is the driver and the wannabe weather forecaster...
You can see in the following photos what the radar begat! First hail, then more snow. It was rather pretty. I post these, not that they are spectacular, but I might sketch them later.

Oversize load, Perth needs a ring road!

Perth police had a busy time yesterday.

There is talk that we need a ring road around the town.

Truck bypass of Perth must now top agenda: Fenik
Written by Maureen Pegg
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Mayor John Fenik says it’s time to get big trucks off the streets of Perth and get a highway bypass back at the top of the agenda.
Fenik told councillors last night he believes Lanark County will support the town in efforts to build an arterial road, adding he’s never seen so much support for the project. But, he says, it needs a buy-in from both the county and the province.

Then, at the Remembrance Day ceremony, you could clearly hear more trucks than the last post. It was most disconcerting.