Travelling on from last post

While in Ontario we spent a couple of days in Goderich, which we enjoyed - it's a really nice town.  We stayed in a lovely B&B for a few nights, and had a great time exploring the town and the local district.  The historical museum and gaol were fascinating; small towns often have interesting histories.  It has a good quilt shop, Quilters by the Square, where one can buy fabrics for one's autumn leaf fabric stash.  As one did.

In August 2011 a tornado cut a swathe through the centre of Goderich, killing one man.  The beautiful gardens round the local courthouse were flattened and large trees snapped like matches - surprisingly just a few were not harmed, and are still growing while the gardens are being replanted around them.

This wonderful metal sculpture and the plaque below are in Lions Harbour Park overlooking Lake Huron.

 If one is really keen one can watch the sunset from the lakeside beach, then run at great speed up the hill to see it again.  We settled for just the hilltop view.

The east coast of Lake Huron has beautiful sunsets.

A bag has been made from fabrics and a pattern which were a gift from Rose Marie when we visited North Bay, as soon as its pic gets taken it will be posted here for you all to see - it has turned out very well.

Not many sleeps until the fat man in the red suit drops in for his annual visit.  Have you all been good?  Somehow I don't think he will be stopping here this year; that Canadian holiday was a nice present from both of us to each other so the fat man will pass by our house without stopping this year.

Last week was the biennial eye appointment and fitting for new reading glasses.  Don't you just hate having to try on all those different styles, looking in the mirror the whole time?  It's difficult not to be too critical and it is a very fraught exercise, I find.  The new glasses have dark red frames, green would have been nicer......I'm quite fond of green, you know......but all the green frames were styles I didn't like.  Clunky plastic frames seem to be on the way back after several years of fine metal ones.  My new frames are not clunky.

Speaking of green, did you know that emerald is the Pantone colour of the year for 2013?  Apparently that means you will be able to find emerald green in home accessories, and clothing, and anything else your little heart desires.  I'm rather fond of emerald, you know.  A judicious sprinkling of emerald here and there might be just what the Chateau des Wombats needs to spark it up.  Unfortunately there were no emerald green frames at the optometrist........

"Short-sightedness.
Short-sightedness is not always a natural defect.  It may be acquired by bad habits in youth.  A short-sighted person should supply himself with glasses exactly adapted to his wants; but it is well not to use these glasses too constantly, as, even when they perfectly fit the eye, they really tend to shorten the sight.  Unless one is very short-sighted, it is best to keep the glasses for occasional use, and trust ordinarily to the unaided eye.  Parents and teachers should watch their children and see that they do not acquire the habit of holding their books too close to their eyes, and thus injure their sight."

Unfortunately it's not that simple, there's a congenital eye problem here, folks.  It's not just age-related, although that does come into it a little.  It has nothing to do with all the thousands of books I have read over the course of my life either........

Enjoy your days!