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…
31 Friday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, calm, camping, family, Friday, fun times, Labour Day, long weekend, moments, Opapiskaw, water, widow
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;-)…
14 Monday Aug 2017
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our last full day here…
we got up early and the younger boys, the daddy and I went fishing…
we arrived back with 2 pickerel which the daddy filleted, and we will have for a late night snack…
brunch was ready and we had bacon pancakes with chocolate bits sprinkled on top… pretty tasty…
cleaned everything up and met the kids at the diving rock…
had a fun day as one person learned to wakeboard and others had turns on the wakeboard and the kneeboard… and snacks on the boat…
total of six seventeen year olds along with the twelve year old, the eight year old, three adults, and one dog…
amazing how well we all got along…
supper was tacos in a bag, one of the boys’ favourites… not quite the gourmet meals we’ve been enjoying, lol, but we are planning on pickerel and bannock as a late night snack…
four teenagers along with the mommy and daddy went fishing and the younger boys have been keeping the fire burning using only small logs, twigs, and bark which they have been finding in the woods… been very entertaining…
gonna miss these guys tomorrow night, lol…
05 Friday Apr 2013
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had a lovely early birthday dinner out with the BSers… we went to Pad Thai and had a wonderful dinner, shared a couple of cards as we celebrated my birthday and another person’s retirement, and enjoyed lots of chat and laughter…
the BSers out for my early birthday dinner…
it is always entertaining to get the cards signed… whoever they are for pretends not to notice people signing and passing items under the table, or in a menu, lol… part of the fun…
it was a great end to a rather strange and busy week… don’t think we’ve ever been this early for a birthday celebration, but as Pat is in town this week, and we were all available, we went for it…
sadly we came outside to discover snow on the ground… it is April 5th, for goodness sake…
really…
hoping that tomorrow it will all disappear…
14 Thursday Mar 2013
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just had a lovely evening out with some of my colleagues…
we started the fun at In Ferno’s on Academy where we shared a few appetizers and particularly liked the butternut squash on crostini… yum…
butternut squash crostini with sage and balsamic reduction…
then we headed next door to Redeemed, where we had the store to ourselves with the complete attention of Allyson who treated us royally, with snacks and great stories…
searching for treasure…
after lots of laughter, snacks and much changing, we all headed home with some special item…
found the treasure…
what a lovely way to spend an evening… and what a great group to do it with…
