14 posts tagged “ontario”

A well-made groin. (above–the rock thingy). Spouse just kept at it until he couldn’t doing anything else to it.

First, hello officially from the US.

It was so perfectly beautiful.

I went to Maple Lake three times between June and September 2008, staying for 4 weeks straight in July/August plus two extra long weekends. My original plan involved staying up to two months but by late May my son had decided to take Driver’s Education over the summer as there was no room in his academic schedule during the regular school year. Plus, the class is offered at about half the going rate(or less) than traditional driving schools.  Last summer he took Health Education and something else. Killed summer vacation dates then, too. But as a wise person recently pointed out, in only a short while he’ll be away at college! I’ll miss him terribly but the cottage is much more likely to be occupied by me and spouse is *cough* getting older and accruing some good vacation time–so he can stay awhile as well. He very much likes it which I think is kinda cute as he married into summering on Maple Lake.

***Don’t miss the last photo. It’s the best.

Spouse working doing stuff at the Lake.

Dug up a pesky stump

Prepping for grass

Spouse removed an old stump and planted a patch of grass where it had been. That patch is now known as the best patch of grass on the property. LOL

South side of Maple Lake (click to enlarge)

 Ack! Tried to find a cool older (5 years ago) photo for comparison. It’s pretty amusing but I’ve used three PC’s in the last week and I’m not even sure which one they are are on–just which one they are not on. So… more later.

St. Peter's Church, Maple Lake, after 2006 tornadoes

Maple Lake in Grey (2007)

Maple Lake Dawn

Moonlight (R. Corrao)

Sept 1, Sunset (2008)

Thanks to Alice and Frank and my Dad (pictured, age 2 months) and my Mom for picking my Dad.

Dad's Baptism?

Frank, holding 2 mo. old Jim, Alice

I love how well this photo cleaned up (and yes, I know I could have done a better job) . My grandmother looks so pretty and, for the very first time I can see the same jawline on my grandfather, Frank as that of my Dad (and me to a degree). Very interesting and fun to know.

 well-made groin. (above–the rock thingy). Spouse just kept at it until he couldn’t doing anything else to it.

First, hello officially from the US.

It was so perfectly beautiful.

I went to Maple Lake three times between June and September 2008, staying for 4 weeks straight in July/August plus two extra long weekends. My original plan involved staying up to two months but by late May my son had decided to take Driver’s Education at Fremd High School over the summer as there was no room in his academic schedule during the regular school year. Plus, the class is offered at about half the going (or less) than traditional driving schools.  Last summer he took Health Education and something else. Killed summer vacation dates then, too. But as a wise person recently pointed out, in only a short while he’ll be away at college! I’ll miss him terribly but the cottage is much more likely to be occupied by me and spouse is *cough* getting older and accruing some good vacation time–so he can stay awhile as well. He very much likes it which I think is kinda cute as he married into summering on Maple Lake.

***Don’t miss the last photo. It’s the best.

Spouse working doing stuff at the Lake.

Dug up a pesky stump

Prepping for grass

Spouse removed an old stump and planted a patch of grass where it had been. That patch is now known as the best patch of grass on the property. LOL

South side of Maple Lake (click to enlarge)

 Ack! Tried to find a cool older (5 years ago) photo for comparison. It’s pretty amusing but I’ve used three PC’s in the last week and I’m not even sure which one they are are on–just which one they are not on. So… more later.

St. Peter's Church, Maple Lake, after 2006 tornadoes

Maple Lake in Grey (2007)

Maple Lake Dawn

Moonlight (R. Corrao)

Sept 1, Sunset (2008)

Thanks to Alice and Frank and my Dad (pictured, age 2 months) and my Mom for picking my Dad.

Dad's Baptism?

Frank, holding 2 mo. old Jim, Alice

I love how well this photo cleaned up (and yes, I know I could have done a better job) . My grandmother looks so pretty and, for the very first time I can see the same jawline on my grandfather, Frank as that of my Dad (and me to a degree). Very interesting and fun to know.

It's another rainy day here at the cottage. It's very, very cold for this time of year as well--if we are lucky there will be a high of 60F today. I really doubt it though.
I'm glad I brought hoodies because I'm wearing them with the hoods up--indoors.
I've not ever had to use a space heater that I can recall but both of them are cranked up right now.
I've been blog-keeping, younger son is watching 80's and 90's cartoon openings on YouTube, and spouse drew the short straw has gone to West Guilford to do laundry. Supposedly, the weather is going to improve slightly as the weekend progresses so we figured we'd get the bigger chores out of the way whilst it is like this.
Anyway what better a way to feel cheery than to look at some photos of last night's trip into Haliburton to Win Yeung for some Canadian Chinese food, followed by some sightseeing around the village.

No one home: a home at the perimeter of Stanhope Airport

Head Lake, Haliburton

Moon over Grass Lake, West Guilford

Grass Lake, West Guilford

Though the sun is shining and I’m grateful, it is in no way warm. The water, after many sub-normal temp weeks simply never warmed up–so swimming has been less than a daily activity. But as they say you take what you get when you come up here–and there is still much here to savour.

A walk in the woods

Lots of nature–any time of the year–any weather!

My spouse, who is a much earlier riser than I, took these out in the back field area.

Hopefully no rain today so I am off!

Just as we got the DVD player fired up to play the non-director’s cut/non-European cut of Blade Runner the other night, I looked out the window and saw this:

Heaven On Earth

About one-third of the biggest clam I've ever seen in Maple Lake.

It's been another rainy day here at the lake--not steady--on and off--a few sun showers. Temperatures are bit low so it was perfect to tackle more cleaning (I know).
I love to go barefoot but am persnickety about clean floors so last night I started with tile/linoleum floors and today the wood flooring. Good exercise, I must say!

I'm super happy to ditch the flip-flops and except for the odd kibble that Raven has picked from her mixed flavour dry dog food--there's nothing on the floor that doesn't belong there.
Spouse has been assembling a slider which is a gilding bench for outside. I don't know what possessed him to purchase it but he's putting each slat on and then getting to the assembly of the sliding part. I totally would not have the patience or persistence that he's shown.
He's going to have to find a stopping point soon tho' as we are going to watch the DVD of "Blade Runner." Just discovered before leaving that younger son has never seen it--he'd thought it had something do with Wesley Snipes' "Blade" movies but once I put it in context he was up for watching it. I think I've seen it 7-8 times. It's referenced so often when that genre is written about that you really can't go wrong watching it. That, and it is amazing. (For the record, I do like the original theatrical version with the Harrison Ford voice over best.)

Above and below are a couple of interesting pics I took yesterday using the waterproof housing.The water was very choppy and I'd not ever done this before so I want to get out there again and practice not floating to the top as I'm trying to get a shot of the lake floor.

S'posed to be a run of good weather after tomorrow. Have plans for The Sculpture Forest , go-karting, and canoeing. So far. :)

Above: the artist's community here in Haliburton County, Ontario is really blossoming. This is a lovely wood piece at The Art Hive, an Artist's Collective on the other side of Maple Lake from me. She is life-size! The lady who was working today is one of the artists and she couldn't have been nicer and more down to earth.They have a coffee bar there so I have an excuse to wander in whenever. Lovely stop.

Previous post on my Maple Lake Ontario blog with much more info about The Artist's Collective.

Well, it's five days actually that I've been here at the cottage but I slept the entire first day so that doesn't really count.
It was so quiet here all week--peaceful.
However that has changed as of this a.m. when my perpetually in motion weekend neighbour mowed his grass and woke me up. Bless him , he never starts really early but I'd stayed up late watching a terrible online copy of "Hancock" though it was good enough that I'd like to see it in our local (20 miles away) multiplex after the guys get here..

Just spoke with them and it looks like I'll have another two days on my own. Son has his monthly blood test in the morning tomorrow and spouse has shopping and bills to pay so no getaway until Sunday a.m. I think it's better to tie up all loose ends than rush out of there especially since it's a 3-week trip, It'll be different but nicer once my guys get here though.

Torbay Cottage, North Bay~

Well folks, it’s t-minus about 64 hours and the clock is ticking down to my momentous leave of my entire family for a week at Maple Lake (they’ll join me for three more weeks at the end of week one).

It’s a bit unnerving and I can feel the anxiety starting to creep in–not about a week alone (are you kidding?–nirvana!) but of leaving the guys behind. With the youngest being almost 16 y.o. no one really needs me but I’m a control freak so I’m completely beside myself that they’ll forget to do all the things that I always do–and then what? Probably no big disaster–but tell my itchy brain that!

My main concern is the additional three weeks when spouse and younger son and our dog, Raven will join me at the lake. I’m afraid that eldest son, who does not have the vacation time to use so is staying here, will let my plants die.

I should be getting anxious about the near-700 mile drive there–but I’m not as I’ve done it so often–either alone or with a kid or two.

Moving along.

I stopped by Maple Lake Ontario  today to check on the weather and the bugs and before doing so I checked on the the sun setting in Ontario and what a beautiful sunset it was!

I have a number of really pretty sunset web shots to share, then long-range weather, then bug forecast.

*About the webcam shots. It’s quite hard to obtain a good webcam shot due to factors including that most webcams are outside so the lenses get dirty, the webcam gets skewed to a strange angle, and bug juice collects. What I do is grab the shot and most times or in the case of the Dorset and Haliburton webcams, always clean them up and try to bring out as natural a photo image as I can.

Kincardine Harbour~ from Lighthouse One

Kincardine Channel overlooking the Penetangore River which connects to Lake Huron.

Silver Lake Resort~

Dorset Sunset, July 15~

Haliburton Sunset (enhanced)~

Once again the goofy neon car image at the top right area is where the road turns sharply, avoiding a plunge into Head Lake. I used to love going around that as a kid. Still do.

Extended Weather Prediction for West Guilford:

That looks really good to me!

Hrm. Don’t forget your DEET!