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rowing…

22 Saturday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, Boathouse Restaurant, campsite, Canada Games, chips, grandson, Kenora, memories, rowing, sunset, Tops and Bottoms Regatta, views, widow

yesterday, started our morning at the campsite… quick breakfast and my daughter, oldest grandson and I headed to Rabbit Lake, on the outskirts of Kenora… 

it is a lovely little lake that is going to be the site for rowing at the Canada Games over the next few weeks…

we spent a good portion of our day here… waiting for the boats to arrive, watching the kids get them offloaded, and then various practices as they prepared for today’s Tops and Bottoms Regatta…

we headed into town for a bit of the time where we had lunch at the Boathouse, which seemed fitting, lol… while we were there it started to pour… there was thunder, and lightning was flashing… we had to go back and get our boy, but did stop for some chips from the Ye Old Chip truck… I mean, we were in Kenora, lol…

picked up our boy, came back into town and checked into the hotel… our room had a great view of the harbour…

back at Rabbit Lake the sun came out and we actually got to see some rowing… very proud of my grandson as he prepares for his first races…

after practice it was back to town for supper and an early evening…

he went out with his teammates and we had dinner in the Waterside Restaurant which is high above the water and offered stunning views… the food was very tasty…

not sure how many pictures I took, lol…

memory-filled day…

chopping…

21 Friday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, brothers, camping, chopping, dinner, Falcon Lake, family, grandson, memories, nature, sky, sun, time, widow

yesterday my grandson picked me up at work and we drove to the lake to meet up with the rest of the kids…

a lovely drive and time to catch up with the oldest…

when we arrived at the campsite folks were starting to prepare dinner… perogies, garlic sausage, onions, mushrooms, corn on the cob, French beans and yellow wax beans…


and, as they nearly always do, cooked over the fire… takes a while, but was delicious…

not sure if the slightly murky looking skies are due to the wildfires in BC… have noticed that the sun is often behind a haze…


it was entertaining to watch the two men in the group as they had fun chopping wood for the fire… 


they are brothers and worked so well together to get the job done, but were clearly enjoying every minute…

family time…

precious…

20 Thursday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, garden, George, hospital, morning glory, pictures, precious, purple, surgery, widow

early this morning I picked my first pepper of the season…


looks like another two or three are starting… funny thing is I don’t really love green peppers, lol…

the morning glories are blooming all along the deck… up till today they were only flowering in one spot…

they remind me of when George would bring me pictures of whichever one was blooming every morning when I spent six weeks in the hospital…

it was so sweet…

over lunch we went to the Farmers Market and I got a great bag full of treats…


radishes, tiny cucumbers, peas, new potatoes and yellow beans (which we ate before I took the picture)…

summer is so precious…

recovery…

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

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some lovely pictures this morning…


flowers make me happy…

yesterday marked five years since my cancer/hernia surgery… I hadn’t been able to lift anything for weeks as the hernia was causing a lot of trouble… for the next six weeks as I was in recovery mode I still wasn’t able to lift anything over two pounds… I spent the summer having friends and family coming over to look after the garden and take care of me…

things are much better now and I am so blessed…

project…

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

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wonderful day…

lunch out with a friend… went to The Forks…


ordered a tasty lunch… 


caught up on our lives and discussed a project we are working on together… this is great because we haven’t worked together on anything for quite a while…

and then tonight I spent time with two wonderful women working on the same project… we had laptops, iPhones and telephones to get us through the meeting, lol…


so much more fun to work with others on any project…

pretty special day…

fishing…

17 Monday Jul 2017

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here fishy, fishy, fishy… 

that was how we started our early morning fishing expedition yesterday once we were on the water, lol…

within about two minutes of the lures being dropped over the side of the boat, as we were trolling, the first Jack fish was caught…


and they kept coming… the younger boys caught the first four and then we adults caught some as well… I was pretty excited when I caught one… totalled 11ish… some discussion as to whether they counted if they jumped off as we were bringing them into the boat, lol…


the last person to catch one was my son-in-law… he was using his fancy catfish rod that we picked up last week for his birthday… he was also the one driving the boat and bringing in the fish when they came up to the side…

between he and my daughter they were able to get the lures out of the mouths of the fish, who were really trying to swallow them whole… some of that process was a little gross…

July is not a time to eat Jack so we never did get to have fish for breakfast…

this was my early morning snack…


pretty fine place for a jar of chia pudding…

misty…

16 Sunday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, blessed, boat, fishing, loon, misty, s'mores, sky, sun, tubing, widow, wonderful

last night, after our supper, cooked on the fire, we had s’mores… we used chocolate covered cookies and smooshed the marshmallow between two of them… yummy… couldn’t get a photo because it was dark…

today the sky was very interesting… this is the view I had when I woke up…


the dog and I took a short walk and got this picture…


up early again, but everyone else got up too, and we went fishing…


the sky was foggy or misty or smoky, we couldn’t decide which…



got a fun shot of some of the boats in the marina…


later in the day finally got a nice picture of one of the many loons we saw throughout our time in the boat…


there was lots of tubing fun..

wonderful day…

pop-up…

15 Saturday Jul 2017

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last night right after work my daughter and I headed out to meet up with the family at Falcon Lake… we picked up a few groceries and were on the road by 6:15…


traffic wasn’t too bad and we arrived to find the pop-up camper ready and the three guys around the fire… for supper we had burgers on ciabatta buns and veggies…


delicious… they went for a short walk as I was finishing my blog post…



lovely fire… very relaxing…

a good night’s sleep and I was up and out early… this is the difference between six am…


and ten am, lol…


bunch of sleepy heads…

this is the first trip with the tent trailer and we are having fun figuring out where to put things and how other things work… my beloved would have enjoyed it… we talked about him this morning as the Coleman propane stove they have is the one we used for camping trips… it is older than my daughter;-)…

I am forever amazed at how these kids can cook just about anything over the campfire, which is always delicious, but sometimes a bit slow…

haul…

14 Friday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, flowers, garden, haul, light, local, morning glories, purple, shopping, summer, sunshine, widow

started yesterday with a morning glory sighting… 

they are just so stunning… make me smile every time I see one… I am always astonished at the light that seems to pour out of the centre of them…

it was a lovely day so we had lunch in the Millennium Park… the sun was shining and Emptyful was misting rather nicely over us…

another colleague walked by and took this great shot of the four of us…


once we were finished eating a few of us walked over and around the Downtown Farmers Market… we were pretty quick but I was so happy to have found peas and small cucumbers…


what a haul… had a few last night and they are delicious…

ah, summer…

mussels…

13 Thursday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, delicious, dinner, friends, memories, moments, Mona Lisa Restaurant, mussels, widow

last night I spent the evening with a dear friend…

we had a wonderful time… we went to Mona Lisa on Corydon for dinner…


as I often do, I ate off the appetizer menu…

we started with fresh bread which we dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar…


then I had the bocconcini e pomodoro with layers of fresh bocconcini cheese, roma tomatoes, red onion, dressed with extra virgin olive oil, oregano fresh garlic and basil… very tasty… and so pretty…


finished off with cozze – fresh atlantic mussels served in your choice of sauce: plum tomato or creamy vodka saffron… I chose the creamy vodka saffron sauce… 


what a perfect choice… these were by far the best mussels I have ever eaten… the sauce was heavenly and I ate every bit of it…

we talked for ages… really appreciate the opportunity to spend time with the important people in my life and make  memories…

life is good…

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