Feb 15 to 21

Monday
I spent a good part of the day working on The Ottawa Genealogist. When this was mostly complete a took a break and then put together the Syllabus for the upcoming Gene-O-Rama genealogy conference March 26-27 here in Ottawa. In the evening we watched some of the Olympic coverage. Walked 7.8 km.

Tuesday
Cloudy day with a bit of sun. In the morning we headed off to downtown Ottawa. We visited Confederation Park to view some of the ice sculptures. Very nice!. We then attended the City of Ottawa Heritage Day celebration at City Hall. The emphasis this year was on sports. The Vintage Stock Theatre put on a good skit as usual. This was followed by a light lunch and then we visited some of the heritage booths set up by the organisations in this city. After that we headed home did some grocery shopping and then went over to our daughters house and took the two dogs out for a short walk.
We then watched the Olympics, in particular the women's snow boarding. This was really exciting to watch the Canadian Maelle Richer win Gold. When we all cheered the two dogs wondered what was happening! In the evening we both went to the monthly meeting of the Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society where we heard a historical talk on the Notre Dame Cemetery here in Ottawa. It was very interesting as some of the Kipp families are buried there and my wife is working on the French Canadian lines of our son-in-law. Walked 9.7 km.

Wednesday
About 2 cm of snow today. In the morning we headed off to the University of Ottawa Library to look at some French Canadian family books and also an item in their Archives and Special Collections. After that we skated on the Rideau Canal for the first time this winter. We did a skate of about 4 km in a half hour. Not bad for older people! In the afternoon I finished off the current issue of The Ottawa Branch News. Proofreading next, then off to the printer. We attended our Ballroom dancing session in the evening. We practiced refinements for the Fox Trot, Triple Swing and Rumba. Walked 6 km.

Thursday
I thought I had finished the Ottawa Branch News, but not quite. Started back on sourcing my Kipp family lines. A little snow today. In the afternoon we went over to our daughters house and took the two dogs for a walk. After that we stayed for a while to have supper and also watch more of the Olympic coverage. walked 7.6 km

Friday
I managed after a four week break due to lack of new snow to get out and do about a 5
km round trip cross country ski. Very nice! Did some more sourcing on my Kipp lines. Watched more TV and Olympic coverage. Walked 6 km.

Saturday & Sunday
Wow! The days go so fast I forget what I did sometimes. I did several hours of sourcing for my Kipp lines. We watched a lot of TV this weekend surfing back and fourth among the channels offering Olympic coverage. We also started back watching The James Herriot series and the Stargate series. Saturday afternoon I spent about two hours working the basement walls. After 30 years we have decided to finish off the drywall and paint. Walked 5.5 & 6.6 km.