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ventured…

20 Thursday Jun 2024

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our first whole day at the cottage was low key…

the sun came out occasionally, but the wind was busy the entire day and there was a fair amount of rain…

we ventured out a few times to watch the waves and listen to the birds…

in between, we read and napped and watched nature take its course out the windows…

my daughter got this lovely shot on her new Galaxy android… between the raindrops, lol…

it take wonderful pictures…

abundance…

27 Tuesday Jun 2023

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there were so many birds at the cottage we stayed at…

after hearing them on the Merlin sound app, I decided not to worry about getting photos of them… my goal was to spot as many as I could while we were there…

I think I saw most of them, except the black and white warbler…

we also saw many pelicans, gulls, eagles, hummingbirds, and at least one heron;-)…

what a wonderful abundance of feathered friends…

waffles…

23 Friday Jun 2023

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came by a waffle maker not long ago and we decided to bring it with us to the lake and try making some…

this particular one had no instructions, so we went on YouTube to figure out the process…

not sure why, but I’ve never had, or made, homemade waffles, so it was a fun learning experience… a friend sent me their favourite recipe, which I printed off before leaving home… what I didn’t do was actually read the recipe, lol… so, we went to the store here to pick up a few of the necessary ingredients, like regular milk and baking powder, but we couldn’t find cake flour, so made do with plain…

it was fun searching the kitchen to find the items we needed for the process…

once everything was gathered, it didn’t take long to produce some rather tasty waffles.. we had fresh strawberries and also picked up whipping cream…

delicious and fun, although it does take a while to make them, lol…

a great experiment, and maybe supper will be chicken and waffles…

already thinking about other things that it might make;-)…

chance…

30 Saturday Jul 2022

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this picture came up on my Facebook memories a few days ago…

it was a reminder of the frightening ride we had on the chairlift at Mount Washington eleven years ago…

we sat at the bottom of the chairlift for a long time… both of us had a fear of heights… but we decided to do it…

we got on the lift and started up, but the person who helped us didn’t put the bar down…

I felt so scared that I may have bent the side and back bars on the chair, lol… when we came down they were careful to make sure all the safety features were in place…

we were proud of one another;-)…

this photo came up too…

it was from a few years ago when my kids tried to get me up on a wakeboard…

we tried for what felt like hours to do it… one was in the water with me and one was driving the boat carefully… it just never happened…

but, once again, I was pleased that I had taken the chance and tried new things, lol…

my beloved would have laughed and laughed, although he didn’t love being on the water…

time…

13 Monday Sep 2021

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recently home, following a two day vacation, which easily felt like four days…

drove up to the cottage with a friend one morning and returned home the next evening…

we had a wonderful time… we sat on the beach for a while, spent time walking and beachcombing, spotted numerous mushrooms, watched a wonderful display of pelicans and cormorants, ate great food, relaxed, and talked by the fire…

what a delightful break…

cormorants…

31 Tuesday Aug 2021

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spent a delightful afternoon on the water…

we jumped in the boat and went to a few different fishing spots… no luck at the first one but we did much better at the second…

saw turtles and cormorants… the cormorants got a bit tired of us following them along the canal, but I got some great photos…

I also caught two fish and brought another one up to the side of the boat where it decided to jump off, lol… and the rule is, if you don’t get it into the boat it doesn’t count…

one of the Jack’s I caught was around 30 inches (second biggest of the day) and put up a fight before getting into the net… the other was smaller, but really any fish is great;-)…

good thing I have all these excellent fishers around me to provide backup and helpful instructions…

stuff…

28 Sunday Jul 2019

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started my day in the hot tub… rather quiet as the waterfall is turned off while awaiting repair, lol…

walked to the grocery store; consulted with Hilda the Gardener, who then did some amazing clean-up in the side garden and tidied the main garden; and packed up all my stuff for another few days of camping…

ended the day watching boys jump into the lake from a rather tall rock, which we climbed, and now we sit by the campfire…

did manage to get one flower picture as well;-)…

been a full day… think it might be an early night…

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…

camping, day 11…

31 Sunday Jul 2016

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been another full day…

up early, took down the tent and packed the vehicles…

then we headed to the beach for our last day of water fun…

went fishing to start the day off… son-in-law caught two Jackfish which we tossed back as they weren’t very big… amazing how long the little boys last without complaining about being bored…

then we spent time on the beach as numerous family members arrived… it was really hot… the shore was crazy full of boats and people, although there were not nearly as many watercraft on the lake… 


saw a few native water lilies as we entered the channel…

four boats and a seadoo crossed the lake together to the Death Swing, where my daughter cut her heel on the propeller, bled a bit and it will be irritable for a while whenever she bends her ankle, but she’s okay…

great fun watching people swing off the ropes into the water… 


there were probably fifty boats there… great calm area for a refreshing swim…

saw an eagle as we headed back across the lake…


last few minutes of our ride across…


not sure if I’ll get any more in this year…

dinner at The Nest and heading home…


lots of wonderful fun memories…