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Attended my first meeting
with the Knights Templars in Toronto on 8th November which was held at the
Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI). As you may have noticed I've
attended several events at the RCMI and Neil Fraser had suggested I join
it some time ago and was willing to be a signatory on the application.
Well as I was sitting beside the Past President, and he also suggested I
should join, I bit the bullet and filled out the application which he
signed. A fellow member at the Knights Templar meeting did the other
signature for me.
As it happens the RCMI is a
really good club where you'll find very friendly folk who are more than
willing to greet a new visitor and make them feel at home. And as I may
have mentioned before it is a particularly friendly place for the few
smokers who are holding out with the sight of many ashtrays all over
the club :-)
The Knights Templar meeting went well and
the long table was filled. I hope to help them build a web site and thus
give the general public an insight into what the Knights Templar do.
I stayed the night with Nola and Harold in
Toronto and we managed both a curry and later in the evening I made my
special Scottish "chips" as a snack :-)
In the morning I head out
to meet up with David Briant at Aberfoyle, just below Guelph where we had
some lunch. David had arranged for me to visit the Scottish Community in
Crieff due to it being created by Scottish Pioneers. I took lots of
pictures and you can see my collection at
Crieff in Ontario.
On Friday 11th November I headed up to
Wallaceburg to get the first consignment of my wine and here are some
pictures...
There is my white wine ready to be bottled. On
the right I get some special labels and wee gift cards
The bottles are being washed and the wine
corks are being immersed in water with the corking machine ready for
action
Here are the details of the process my wine
had gone through
And while my 15 bottles of white wine are
having the labels added the balance of my wine is being prepared for
carbonation
And the last drop is now being ported into the
carbonation unit
And here is the label going onto my White Wine
On one side my red wine is being prepared and
on the right the finishing touches to the bottling of my white wine
And here is my other 15 bottles of white wine
being cooled down for carbonating which I'll pick up next Monday
I also got some cheap wine racks to store my
wine
and the first of my red wine being bottled
As well as standard bottles I also got a four
party sized bottles and two half bottles and a neat couple of labels for
them. On the right I got a special cork in the event I don't drink the
whole bottle :-)
And here it is in my car boot ready for
transportation to it's new home :-)
And my sparkling wine being bottled on the
following Tuesday
On the way home I went past the Wallace mural
to see what it looked like up on the wall...
On Saturday I attended the Elliot Clan AGM
which was held in London, Ontario and had a grand time. This is the
kind of event that really brings a clan together and everyone had a great
time. So many raffle prizes were brought to the lunch that everyone won
something :-)
I have done a wee story board
about the event which you can see here! |
