Last Sunday, Heather decided to walk the Inglisville loop.
From the house to Lawrencetown Lane, turn right up the Trout Lake road. At the top, right again, along the Inglisville gravel road, pass the DNR rifle range turn, and then back down the mountain to Highway 201 and home.
Partway along the Inglisville Road, a deer ran across the road, at the same time, she heard gunshots to her right. She turned around and came home. The hunting season has started. This week, we limited our walks to the French Basin trail and the Valley View Park trail.
On a visit to the Inside Story in Greenwood, I picked up Donald Savoie’s latest book on John Bragg, the force behind Oxford Frozen Foods and Eastlink. The book title is The Rural Entrepreneur. It follows his other books on economic development, Visiting Grandchildren and Looking for Bootstraps, and his books on the McCain and Irving families.
What attracted my attention was Chapter 6, Rural Development: one community at a time. In Bragg’s case, it was Oxford/Collingwood.
Through LinkedIn, Jonathan Murphy shared a post ’GIS made in Canada – Doug Seaborn’s vision’ and from Hugh Millward’s’ Wickedly good work using GIS at SMU’.
This week, I have enrolled in the Tai Chi class at the Middleton campus, NSCC. It is one of many programs offered by CORAH (Centre of Rural Aging and Health). I am looking forward to my first session. This should complement my training sessions with Cathy Bruce West at Healthy Bodies.
We have been busy chipping brush. This will be used as Winter mulch for our fruit bushes (gooseberries and red currants) and the grapes.
Postscript
From Alexander Graham Bell:
”When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Last sentence in Savoie’s book. p.244.
Acknowledgments
Heather McCormick at CORAH for Tai Chi registration. Cathy Bruce West for the weekly training sessions. Jonathan Murphy for the LinkedIn link. Heather shared the chipping, mulching and putting the garden to bed. Edward added the graphics.
Reference
Donald J. Savoie, 2021, The Rural Entrepreneur: John Bragg, Nimbus Publishing.
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