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Me neither, but it's not insurmountable. For instance, in Barrie, we now have regular daily GO train service between our station and Union Station. Makes it much easier to spend a day in the City without worrying about having to get a car around.
 
I have only been in Toronto once (other than changing planes at the airport!) When there I walked a lot and rode the free bus that went to the big hospitals. We stayed near Sick Kids and spent time in the Neuro area of Western.
 
@Mendalla change "sometimes" in the reference to 401 near kitchener to "regularly".
Traffic has and will be bad around Cambridge Kitchener due to road widening, bridge replacements, et.
 
yeah! I was tired of hearing about ON. Traffic. Enjoy your cottage Pinga. Growing up we often had a week either camping or at a cottage at Sauble Beach. It was a way to also visit my paternal grandfather. He ran a small ice and firewood store and lived in the back.
 
Tabitha said:
Growing up we often had a week either camping or at a cottage at Sauble Beach. It was a way to also visit my paternal grandfather. He ran a small ice and firewood store and lived in the back.
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I've probably mentioned it before, but my grandfather built a place in Haliburton County back in the forties (I think) that the family still owns today. My family went for a couple weeks every summer when I was growing up. Like you, it gave us a chance to hang out with our grandparents, who often spent much of the summer up there from when Grandad retired until Grandma's health got too bad for her to go. I stopping going regularly when I was in university due to working summers and having kind of lost interest in the place.

More recently (as in, the nineties and noughties), Mrs. M and I used to go occasionally, including once in the fall to see the colours in Algonquin. We took Little M a few times when he was little. Once he was old enough to travel more widely, though, we preferred travelling to cottaging. The place is still in the family, jointly owned by my aunt and my brother (who took over Dad's share) but we haven't gone in over a decade.
 
Made green tomato soup. I think it turned out well. Might do another batch sometime, will swap out the chicken broth for veggie as Chemguy isn't into chicken soups (I knew he didn't eat chicken noodle, didn't realize chicken-y tasting soup was an issue though) and veggie broth was used in one of the recipes I saw, I kind of combined 2 and altered a bit.
 
I made soup today too...chicken based, and with a bunch of vegies from the garden. Lately, I bring a bowl out to the garden, pick a variety of vegies, and create a dish with what I have picked. Today's soup had carrots, kale, spinach, onions, green pepper, beans, tomatoes and garlic, all from the garden. No recipe. Just some luck and a prayer or two!
 
We made soup last night for dinner. Beef broth with beef, cabbage, carrots, and potatoes seasoned with curry. The Chinese call it Communist Soup since they got it from the Russians before their relationship with the Soviet Union went downhill (though the curry is our own touch). We have been making this one literally for decades, probably since before we were married.
 
Nancy said:
I made soup today too...chicken based, and with a bunch of vegies from the garden. Lately, I bring a bowl out to the garden, pick a variety of vegies, and create a dish with what I have picked. Today's soup had carrots, kale, spinach, onions, green pepper, beans, tomatoes and garlic, all from the garden. No recipe. Just some luck and a prayer or two!
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I don't know enough about cooking with green tomatoes to not have a recipe as a starting place!
 
Nancy said:
The curry sounds nice...but my husband doesn't care for curry. The rest of it sounds yummy though.
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The only thing morally proper to not like is Brussels Sprouts as here the leifs of a world court erupt ... and the powers hate world courting with the future and interfering with powerful success ... thus corruption either way! Lord Acton ... ?????? If Nordic take some attention ... as this is for cool folk ... no heated winds accepted ... perhaps hint of a vesper ... or whisper in the pines ... wood used to stoke Sammy's Kettle ... the McGee one ... out there in the dark ... looking on ... dis grunt led .. thus knight chitz ... bumps appearing as niches and nooks!
 
Roasted, bbqed or sauteed with bacon are all good.
Why were they always boiled whenever I had them as a kid? Not by my parents, but I do recall them being done that way when visiting others.
 
I had never met a brussels sprout that wasn't boiled until a few years ago. I now add them to stir fry mixtures and really like them that way. .
 
Northwind said:
They're still good boiled, if not boiled beyond recognition.
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I think I'm just too turned off of having them that way because of how they were done when I was a kid. I wouldn't be opposed to trying them boiled, but I'm not going to be the one to do it!
 
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