Right on schedule, the sun is out, the glaciers are receding and there's lots and lots of stuff to do!

April and May in Southern Georgian Bay will be a time of re-awakening
for the communities around the Bay. Combinations of Music Festivals, Heritage
Dinners, National Wildlife Week activities, Earth Day clean-ups, Astronomy Day,
and the re-opening of the areas historical attractions are part of the rituals of
spring.
[ see Spring Awakenings ]

Too chilly for gardening? While you're bundled up in your thermal rain-gear for tonight's slim chance of frost, here's a home hobbyist construction project you might want to ponder: How about a nice green tropical slice of Amazon Rain Forest to fill out that empty corner in the living room?

"... this sucker is finally 100% built and operational. So far so good. Things have gone surprisingly well. My fears of mistakenly creating a big moldy, festering, insect larvae maturation tank have so far gone unfounded.

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Sauble Beach became an even more special place last week, with the discovery of a nesting pair of Piping Plovers. OMNR and CWS are taking this VERY seriously, and the nesting site now has an exclusion fence (to keep gulls and other predators from eating the egss) as well as round-the-clock observation by naturalist volunteers and governmental organizations.

This bird is highly endangered - the last time it was found nesting anywhere in southern Ontario was at Oliphant 35 years ago.

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I guess all of you have heard what transpired at last Monday’s council meeting. Here are a few facts that you may not know. Our esteemed Mayor ditched a meeting on Monday afternoon with a member of the Cabinet of the Province of Ontario to make her mad dash back to Wiarton with her little cohort. This is a meeting that our esteemed Mayor requested with the Minister. This is a meeting that could potentially bring much-needed funding to our Town. This is a meeting that was being attended by not only Town staffers, but members of an engineering firm (who are being paid by the Town) and also by our MPP, Bill Murdoch. How embarrassing for our Town to request this meeting and then our esteemed Mayor not even have the courtesy to show up.

While I know its not a forum or blog posting, its just I hate waisting things, anyone want 4 banks of 16 m edo ram(64 all together), or a vortex soundcard(2003) or one cd rom(not rw) or NIC's or a 128 ati pro rage video card(windows xp has probs with this so not recommended for windoze) let me know, its yours, gratis, can arrange somehow to get it to you.May be spring though :)

Congrats to May and Gary on the arrival of the newest Sauble Beach resident, Riordain .And Gary was just thinking at how /quiet/ their house was too....:)

Just in on the SBP Mailbag, new member Chris Graham writes to tell us of his brand new (and amazing) website chronicle of Wiarton and Colpoy's pulled together from his own personal research and archives of the Echo as far back as 1879.

And it's all there in a beautiful web-resource, from the Kalbfleisch House to the famous barge wrecks off Whicher's Mill, each fully detailed in stories and high-resolution scans of modern and historical photos ...

Nearly a century and a half ago, the village of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario ... was permanently settled by my great-great-great grandfather John Wood. A man of many talents ... and it is for this reason that I decided to create this website. The images on this page will be updated as I accumulate more relevant photographs and historical postcards.

Awesome -- The Colpoy's site promises to become one of our primary online historical reference works, a must-browse for everyone visiting or living in our neck of the Bruce.

[ Visit: Postcards From the Bay ]
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We took up the invitation from Michael Ianni-Palarchio and dropped in on the Youth Technology Camp and their grand opening Open House this afternoon -- a pretty amazing place, and I'm proud to say that it's right here in the heart of Sauble Beach.

Michael gave us the Royal Tour starting with some ambling bi-ped robots who greeted us at the door. We saw the Lego Mindstorms robotics design kits and a quick demonstration of just how easy it was to alter the programming on a little robot car. From there an introduction to the stop-frame animation and webdesign tools, a robot vacuum (like in the Pepsi commercial), a self-programming Aibo robot dog who's now scared to step of his shelf (did once, fell, learned his lesson) and another strange homebrewed tele-robotic contraption that can be set outside in the back yard to teach the children what it would be like to pilot a Mars Rover!

Pretty amazing stuff. Our tour ended with a demo of some of the 3-D animation tools for game and cartoon crafting and lastly, a short film created by Michael's daughter using the iMovie software.
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There is a lot of scary innovation lurking about in our neighbourhood woodlands -- I spotted this one while hunting more local sites for the SBP site-cloud and just couldn't resist sharing the find. This is just, like, really too scary ... and such a really good idea too :)

Introducing the Four Season Shoe and Boot Dryer by our good friends down at the Caframo plant. The first question I have is what sort of an evil genius mind would dream up such a thing; my second question is how we could possibly live in this part of the world for so very long and not already invent it. Those of you visiting the SBP from southern climes may have some trouble figuring out what it is and why we'd all really want one, but folks from around here will know exactly why.

... and it's not just to frighten the cat.

[ Source: Caframo Limited ]
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