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09 Friday Nov 2018

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really can’t believe how fast time is going by…

seems like it was just yesterday that I turned the page to November on my Chihuly calendar…

rather like this picture…

looking forward to getting a 2019 Chihuly calendar and wondering what spectacular photos will be included…

whenever I look at the calendar I remember the amazing places I have been to see Chihuly installations…

the mind blowing Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…

the gorgeous installations at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens…

the chandeliers at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau…

wonder where I might see some next;-)…

neighbours…

26 Friday Oct 2018

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this morning I started my day at the clinic doing bloodwork before my next appointment…

on my way back to the car I kept having to stop and watch the geese flying overhead… I cannot keep from looking up when I hear them honking…

then I met up with my walking buddy… we had breakfast at The Park Cafe, and noticed that all the geese that usually spend time in the pond were off filling up somewhere else, lol… afterward we wandered through the English and Leo Mol Gardens which are rather sad just now but it was great to be outside…

I dropped her off and we checked out her newly renovated garden… as I was leaving I got this pic of a neighbour’s Halloween decorations;-)…

when I arrived home, had a lovely visit with one of my neighbours… haven’t been outside at the same time for ages so it was great to catch-up… they usually spend a few months at their property in Arizona but with health issues they can’t get insurance so will be selling… they do have a winterized cottage just outside the city, so will spend time there…

seems like we have to adapt quite a bit as we get older…

flight…

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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woke up to a text from my daughter in Ottawa sending me some photos and video of a great blue heron…

I love them and she spotted this one while having her breakfast at Dows Lake before walking to her office…

a few minutes later I came across this memory on Facebook… two years ago we decided at the last minute to see if we could get a balloon flight… and we made it…

I had booked a trip a few years before just to be able to have an opportunity to fly in a hot air balloon… that time, it took five tries to actually get up into the air, so this was a treat…

lovely way to start the day…

Opapiskaw…

03 Monday Sep 2018

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yesterday my son-in-law and I came home after supper as he had to work today and I was looking for a quiet day before going back to work…

Sunday started with solo time at the water’s edge…

while we were eating pancakes and bacon one of the Park rangers came by to advise everyone that a momma bear and her two cubs had been spotted nearby and to be sure to clean up their site before heading out for the day… not five minutes later the middle grandson saw them in the campsite across from ours… we jumped into the car, with our breakfast and hollered out the windows to let the other campers know… within a few minutes the bears were gone but it was pretty exciting…

then it was off for a day on the water… we’d found a measuring scale for seeing how long the fish are and took it with us…

sadly, only one of us caught anything and the fish were a bit small, lol…

when we got back to the campsite we made a lovely chicken dinner and said farewell to the three who were remaining…

good drive home, a hot tub with the my oldest grandson and son-in-law and then a sleepover at their house…

Opapiskaw, Sunday…

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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another beautiful day in paradise…

early this morning I walked down to the beach and got a few great pictures…

in an effort to find a good internet connection I walked down a very narrow trail to get to a spot where there was LTE service…

the trail brought back so many memories… all the years we camped at Falcon and Birds Hill and went on many hikes along trails that were just like this one…

at the end of the trail were some pretty rocks which I clearly am not going to be able to take home, sigh…

there are many poplars here and the sound of the wind blowing through them is also a reminder of camping in Birds Hill with friends…

missing my beloved… he would have loved this…

Opapiskaw, Saturday…

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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up early and, after the rather long hike to the bathroom, spent some time at the water’s edge… beautiful view as the fog rolled across the still water and I could hear fish jumping just out of sight…

nice way to start the day… tomorrow I might take a chair down to watch the sunrise…

breakfast made on the campfire, followed by fishing, tubing, wakeboarding and kneeboarding…

in amongst all that I had a boat driving lesson and did quite well…

Opapiskaw, Friday…

31 Friday Aug 2018

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Labour Day long weekend… last camping trip of the year…

three of us grocery shopped, hooked up the trailer, filled up with gas, and hit the road for Opapiskaw…

when we arrived we set up the trailer and fetched the boat from a friend’s seasonal site… the other two arrived a bit later…

we are now working on supper, doing some relaxing and exploring… a few of us played catch and some went for a walk to check out the water… it was so calm…

hope it is like that when we want to go wakeboarding and kneeboarding tomorrow, lol…

trying to figure out how I can take some of the rocks home, although they are a bit big…

now to walk down by the water so I can post this;-)…

strap…

30 Thursday Aug 2018

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last year, on our final camping trip of the season, the strap on the kneeboard broke…

the board came from my son-in-law’s grandparents and he is very attached to it… new boards are designed differently and he doesn’t like them…

so, recently I started searching for someone who might fix the strap…

found strapping and Velcro and spoke with a local upholsterer who agreed to do the sewing for us…

once my son-in-law checked out the strapping we realized it wasn’t quite right… he found some from a ratchet he had at home and we dropped off the Velcro and strapping to be sewn…

now we have a nice new strap… it should get attached to the board in the next few days;-)…

screen…

23 Thursday Aug 2018

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early in August my son-in-law, youngest grandson and I drove out to the campground we had booked for our vacation to leave the boat… only one of the vehicles can pull the boat and trailer so it means two trips to get both of them to our destination…

we had a great day, boating and fishing… we also checked out the shops;-)…

I picked up the sweetest screen door protector…

a lovely butterfly made up of two parts with magnets in the middle… it looked very cool on the screen door…

I really liked it, so while we were there last week I picked up a few more…

very cute;-)… and will surely help people realize the screen is closed, lol..

tent…

22 Wednesday Aug 2018

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was thinking about how our camping game has improved…

in August of 2015 we camped in two tents… one for the boys and one for the adults… we also had thick air mattresses and a tarp that covered both of the tents…

there was a humongous thunderstorm during the night and the tarp saved us from being drenched… after it started to rain again in the morning we decided to pack up and go home…

we camped the second night in the basement of the kids new house, lol…

August 2018… for the last ten days we were in this tent trailer… we bought it last year and after the first trip one of the ends broke…

the kids finished making repairs, painting and replacing the floor just before we left… so much more comfortable than the tents, lol…

it reminds me of the camping trips we made when the girls were young as it is very similar to the one we had then;-)…

my beloved would have enjoyed it…