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hammock…

18 Thursday May 2023

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it was early Wednesday morning and I was working on a newsletter job I have when the doorbell rang…

so excited to discover it was the hammock chair I had ordered…

I went out to the shed and dug around for the hammock stand that I already have…

with a bit of a struggle I got it together, managed to add the umbrella, and then hooked on the chair…

my neighbour found a big plastic bag for me that I will use when it is going to rain… it doesn’t say it can’t get wet, but I think it will last longer if it doesn’t get rained on…

I did sit in it for a few minutes, but will feel better when the screws (which I found in the garage) are into the bottom legs, lol…

debris…

06 Friday May 2022

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it has been a long, but productive, day and the weather has been amazing, around 22 Celsius…

I brought out the pump for the pond, hooked it up to a different hose and used it to empty the water… it doesn’t take too long with the big hose…

thanks to a great idea that my grandson had last year, I used the wet vac to suck up leaves and debris from the bottom… eventually I put on my water shoes, climbed in and got the last bits out…

I attached the pump to the waterfall and placed all the rocks back to hide it, hoping that there wouldn’t be any leakage, lol…

then ran the hose across the garden and filled the pond up… it took just over an hour and I finally plugged in and turned the pump on…

and it worked;-)… with no leaks…

we also got the hammock out and assembled, put up three umbrellas, and moved two of the chairs for the back deck out from the shed…

spent the whole day outside… how blessed am I…

camping, day 3…

23 Saturday Jul 2016

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weather wasn’t quite so cooperative today… we still had a good time…

woke up to sun at 5:30 but by 10:30 it was raining and it rained hard for a good part of the day…

did some reading in the tent… didn’t get any shots of the rain, too depressing…

we had a picnic there too… all 6 of us did very well together…

our plates were Kleenex… as we sat on the two air mattresses and a couple of chairs we brought into the tent…

here’s the sign to the campground which is beautifully lit up at night…

this was the view around 4:30 when some of our group went to the lake and picked tons of blueberries… sky was nice and blue at that time…

this  was one of the birch trees at our campsite just after 6… beautiful blue sky as we prepped our dinner…

then it clouded over again, and threatened to rain but it didn’t… yay…

here’s a view from the hammock… very popular spot that everyone wants, but few get, lol…

all that blue in the pictures make it hard to believe that it was overcast and rainy for the majority of the day…

camping, day 1…

21 Thursday Jul 2016

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woo hoo…

sitting around the campfire after dinner…


took a while because we had to prepare the cooking utensils…


first, we had to find the correct sticks… and then we had to sharpen them… and get the fire nice and high…

while that was going on, other people were testing out the hammock…


nothing like a smokie cooked on a stick over an open fire… delicious…

then we took an evening walk… the water was like glass at the beach…


dishes done, mosquitoes have won and we are in our tents ready for bed…

the wind is gently moving the leaves on the trees…

feels like we’ve been here for ages… great way to start our family vacation…