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2008 – A year in 18 photos

The PolyBlog
February 25 2024

Wow, what a huge year.

February. The Malcolms visited Roundhay for supper, and Becky’s first baby shower was in Peterborough.

Bruce, Jenn and Paige visiting
Becky's baby shower in Peterborough

March. We had a big snowfall in Ottawa and another baby shower.

Big snowfall in Ottawa
Becky's baby shower in Ottawa

April. Andrea completed her literacy practitioner certificate at Algonquin and Baby G arrived.

Andrea's adult literacy practitioner class at OCDSB
Grace's birth

May. We got to visit with Baby G and Andrea went to Pakistan.

Grace at 3w old for Mother's Day
Pt 4 - Around Islamabad

June. More visiting with Baby Grace.

Grace at 6w

July. Visiting in and around Gatineau Park.

Visit to Gatineau Park

August. A cottage weekend with the next-gen and Pat and Robyn’s wedding.

Cottage weekend
Pat and Robyn's wedding

September. Grace came for a visit, we got married, and we went on our honeymoon.

Grace visiting
Our corner
Napali Coast

October. The big news that we couldn’t share yet and Kate and Matt’s wedding.

Our big news
Kate and Matt's wedding

December. Christmas at Roundhay

Christmas at Roundhay

2007 – A year in 15 photos

The PolyBlog
October 16 2023

February. Andrea went skating on the canal with her family. March. Andrea went curling and did a trip to Pakistan. May. Time for a long weekend at the cottage with baby Paige. June. It was a busy month with Brian and Marnie’s 40th wedding anniversary (not shown), Marney’s retirement, and Andrea and I bought a house. July. We took a trip out to the Luskville Falls. August. Another long weekend at the cottage (no, everyone isn’t really into basketball, it’s part of an annual Malcolm Olympics tradition). September. The knitting group at CIDA made a baby blanket for Noel, and … Continue reading →

2006 – A year in 21 photos

The PolyBlog
October 1 2023

January. Andrea went to Bangladesh for work, with stops in Dubai before and Zurich afterwards. February. Only a few photos for the month, with Andrea skating on the canal with her parents and sister. April. April was a bit busier, with Andrea knitting me a bear and visiting Gatineau Park with Andrea’s family. May. The month saw the standard “opening weekend” for the cottage. June. We did the Ottawa Race Weekend (just the 5K), got to meet Baby Laura (Sebastien’s daughter), celebrated my birthday on our deck, and went to Wakefield by steam train. July. We were a lot busier … Continue reading →

2004 – A year in 15 photos

The PolyBlog
September 24 2023

Another year wrapped up in the gallery. This was the first year with a digital camera, so the number of photos obviously increased exponentially. But, for some reason, with all the various movements of files over the years, the file folders were a disaster. I had about 4500 photos and video files for the year. But I knew when I started that at least half were duplicates. After I cleaned everything up, I got that down to 1385 photos (less than a third were unique, two-thirds were dupes!). I then curated that to a much smaller 486 active shots in … Continue reading →

2003 – A year in 4 photos

The PolyBlog
September 17 2023

Since Andrea and I didn’t yet have a digital camera, the photos in my digital collection for 2003 are all ones that were scanned at some point, partly as I recall, to go on the new PolyWogg website I was designing at the time. In March, Andrea took a work trip to Hong Kong. There was a park near her hotel, and she took some pictures of nearby buildings. One was identified in our notes as a church, but Google Image Search revealed that it is actually their former Supreme Court building. It was my turn to take a trip … Continue reading →