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I've often mentioned that I work at RONA, which is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes.
When I was growing up, our family business (Pleasant View Farms) was engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of farm and landscaping/nursery supplies: hardware, fencing, pesticides, plants, hay/straw for bedding, containers, firewood, seed, clothing, paint and on and on.
In 2002, after many years in various endeavours (museums, teaching English, marketing, I was accepted in the seasonal department at RONA, where I employed the skills and knowledge that I had garnered so many years before at Pleasant View Farms.
If you visit while I'm at RONA, you'll likely find me in the greenhouse and/or garden centre. I also spend a good deal of time on the seasonal hardware floor.
It's just part-time... a day or two a week, but it suits nicely.
About RONA
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Rona Inc. The Group's principal activity is to retail and distribute hardware, home improvement and gardening products in Canada. The Group operates in two segments namely Corporate and Franchised Stores and Distribution. The Corporate and Franchised stores segment relates to the retail operations of corporate stores and the Group's share of the retail operations of the franchised stores in which the Group has an interest. The Distribution segment relates to the supply activities to affiliated, franchised and corporate stores. As of 19-Feb-2008, the Group had 77 Big-Box stores, 327 Proximity stores and 235 Specialized stores and 40 specialized ICI.
RONA.ca Information
www.rona.ca/content/investor-relations
General Links:
www.mssociety.ca/en/events/biketour/default.htm
RONA History
1982 - Ro-Na purchased the assets of Botanix.
1984 - Ro-Na created a purchasing alliance with Ontario-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. through Alliance RONA Home Inc.
1988 - Ro-Na merged with Dismat, another building materials company, to create Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc.
1990 - Ro-Na formed an alliance with Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 - ITM Entreprises S.A., a France-based group, invests $30 million in the Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. ITM becomes a shareholder and forms a purchasing alliance with Ro-Na.
1998 - Ro-Na eliminates the Le Quincailleur and Dismat names and introduces RONA L'express, RONA L'express Matériaux and RONA Le Rénovateur Régional. It also changes its name from Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. to RONA Inc.
1999 - RONA opens a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (61,000 m²), doubling its warehousing capacity and achieving considerable cost savings.
2000 - RONA acquires Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. It permanently opens its online store on the rona.ca website.
2001 - RONA acquires 51 Revy, Revelstoke and Lansing stores and thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.
2002 - RONA closes a public offering consisting of a total offering of $150.1 million of Common Shares. RONA's Common Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".
2003 - RONA acquires Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores. RONA also opens its third large distribution center in Calgary, Alberta.
2004 - RONA acquires Totem Building Supplies Ltd., an Alberta company. RONA Dream Home airs on Global. RONA also joins the AIR MILES Reward Program.
2005 - RONA Dream Home 2 airs on Global.
2006 - RONA acquires a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc..
2006 - RONA acquires Curtis Lumber Building Supplies
2007 - RONA acquires Burnaby, BC based Dick's Lumber
2007 - RONA acquires Nova Scotia based Castle Cash & Carry
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Imagine stepping off a narrow side street and finding yourself face-to-face with this stunning, classic corner of Portugal, most certainly in the historic heart of Porto. This image encapsulates the country’s profound love affair with azulejo tiling, as an entire multi-story building is wrapped in beautiful blue and white ceramic tiles. The patterns are intricate and traditional, primarily geometric and floral, creating a visually rich texture that gives the old building a fresh, almost shimmering facade under the bright sun.
The building itself maintains a sturdy, historic feel, featuring numerous windows and small wrought iron balconies on the upper floors, typical of Portuguese residential architecture from the late 19th or early 20th century. The blue and white coloring—the colors most commonly associated with Portuguese decorative arts—is a deliberate choice that ties the modern streetscape directly to centuries of craft and tradition.
The setting is pure European cobblestone charm. The intersection is paved with rough, irregular stones (calçada), leading the eye into the background where the street narrows into a dimly lit canyon flanked by taller buildings. The contrast is sharp: the bright, tiled façade on the left stands out against the pale, unadorned stone and plaster of the neighboring buildings. The scene is grounded by modern urban elements, including traffic signs (a clear 'Do Not Enter' sign), bollards, and a solitary figure walking quickly away from the intersection, giving a sense of the place being both a historic museum and a living, bustling part of the city. The presence of small shops and ground-floor businesses hints at the commercial activity sustaining this beautiful urban core. This view is a perfect snapshot of urban elegance and historic resilience, capturing the unique texture and light of a Portuguese afternoon.
A slither of fabulous northern pebbledash and a painted wooden fence. Compliment each other perfectly:)
Metal screws casting long shadows in bright spotlight, artistic lighting on white surface and wall background
This ton of bricks hit me when I walked into the first barn (see what I did there?) on the tour. I'm assuming it's a pile of bricks salvaged from an old building.
This is the first picture I took at this event. The next picture is the LAST picture I took.
DeKalb County Barn Tour
Egan's Farm
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August 9,2025
My pictures from the 2025 DeKalb County Barn Tour
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Rüdersdorf, Germany – 2017, April 23
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[This is a series of 10 photos about Red Fox Farm) Approximately 2 miles north of Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Virginia is Red Fox Farm, part of which is visible from the highway. All images were taken from the shoulder of the road and restricted me to the beautifully maintained tobacco barns. The farm is an excellent example of late 19th and early 20th centuries tobacco farm in Southside Virginia. Robert Jeffreys acquired the property about 1887-1888 and introduced the flue-curing technique of curing tobacco to the region. He focused on growing bright-leaf tobacco, used mainly in cigarettes. The dark-leaf previously grown in the area was used for chewing tobacco. There are five tobacco or curing barns on the property, dates unknown, all are about 18' square with a single opening where tobacco was hung to dry inside. Four barns also have an open shed. Unskinned logs were the building material, approximately 8 inches in diameter. The gaps between the logs were chinked with clay and sticks (see image 6 in this series). The gable roofs have metal roofs. The setting is picturesque with many standing trees contributing to the aesthetics. The farms economic and historical significance and the well-preserved outbuildings typical of the times justified inclusion on the National Register of Historical Places June 10, 1993 with ID #93000508
The farm implement is an antique animal-powered cultivator
See the National Register nomination form (in pdf format) for an informative discussion of tobacco growing and curing at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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7DWF Crazy Tuesday Theme: Backlight.
You have to have a mighty acorn to produce a mighty oak.
By Sean Walsh.
Teil einer Skulptur von Benjamin Bergmann.
Dazu noch eine Treppenandeutung und eine Art Farbfehler beim Wandanstrich.
Berlin, Germany – 2017, April 14
(Pentax 67, Super Takumar 55mm F3.5, Kodak Ektar 100)
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Ein Café unterwegs nach Egilsstaðir. A café on the way to Egilsstaðir.
Ich lade die Bilder in etwa der Reihenfolge meiner Tour hoch.
I'll upload the pictures in roughly the order of my tour.
• Interessant waren für mich die Baumaterialien (es gibt auf Island keine Tongruben und auch keine Wälder). Durch die von Vulkanen geprägte Landschaft und die ungewöhnlichen klimatischen Bedingungen waren übliche Baumaterialien wie Backsteine oder Holz nicht oder kaum vorhanden. Die Verkleidung der Dächer und Außenwände mit Wellblech und örtlich vorkommendem Bodenmaterial erhalten wieder mehr Aufmerksamkeit.
• The building materials were interesting for me (there are no clay pits and no forests in Iceland). Due to the volcanic landscape and the unusual climatic conditions, common building materials such as bricks or wood were not or hardly available. The cladding of the roofs and outer walls with corrugated iron and locally occurring flooring material is attracting more attention again.
Das Foto zeigt mit den dunkelgelben Krokussen einerseits kultivierte Natur im Steingarten, andererseits mit dem Ziegel auch ein Stück menschliche Kulturgeschichte. Dieser Ziegel mit den Insignien H und D sowie dem Doppeladler mit dem W stammt aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts vom Wienerberger Ziegelwerk des Heinrich Drasche. Wien war damals die viertgrößte Stadt der Welt und deren Wachstum verlangte viel mehr und bessere Ziegel als die bis dahin in Feldziegeleien getrockneten Lehmziegel. Heinrich Drasche erfand den industriellen Brennofen für Tonziegel und durfte auf seinen Tonziegeln denDoppeladler zeigen, was vom kaiserlichen Hof nur relativ selten erlaubt wurde. Das heute aktive, große Baustoff-Unternehmen Wienerberger ist der Nachfolger vom Ziegelwerk des Heinrich Drasche.
The photo shows with the dark yellow crocuses on the one hand cultivated nature in the rock garden, and with the brick on the other hand also a piece of human cultural history. This brick with the insignia H and D as well as the double-headed eagle with the W originates from the Wienerberger brickworks of Heinrich Drasche in the middle of the 19th century. At that time, Vienna was the fourth largest city in the world and its growth required many more and better bricks than the clay bricks that had been dried in field brickworks until then. Heinrich Drasche invented the industrial kiln for clay bricks and was allowed to display the double-headed eagle on his clay bricks, which was only allowed relatively rarely by the imperial court. Wienerberger, the large building materials company active today, is the successor to Heinrich Drasche's brickworks.
On the very last day of our New York vacation before heading to Maine State, we had a little time in the morning. It was an extremely humid and hot day in New York - you feel sweat going down on your face. We took a little walk from Park Slope to Gowanus, Carroll Gardens to Cobble Hill for a Thai food that I loved. It has been four years since I went to New York the last time, and many things changed in Brooklyn as well. Somewhat similar to San Francisco's gentrification, but things happened earlier and perhaps faster.
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