Last evening we had a small pot luck at "Tina's" Lube and Grill. The place is so clean that you can eat off of a welder. No pics of people eating, 'cause I was too busy eating. The chicken leg burners were greatly missed.

Part of the Szymanski family that were able to come up this year.




I don't know who the guy sitting down is. He just followed his nose out of the bush.



Trailer park trash. They always show up for free food.




No pics of the Hostess, she managed to disappear when the camera came out.

George, making sure that he gets his share of the beer. "Darn, they're not twist caps. Where did I put that church key?"

The Whiskey Jacks are back already!

The Provincial Tax Grab, I mean, Land Tax Reform meeting was held this morning. An over flow crowd showed up, but, I think that we could/should have had even more citizens show up.







At the end of the presentation there was a question and answer session, but, as usual, a lot of the answers were of the "I don't know" variety. The new tax rate will be, for this area, .0004 times what ever value that MPAC assesses your property. This all comes with a new "reformed" assessment appeal process that wasn't explained all that well. Of course there will be no increase in services provided.

Michelle and Kurt, sorry that I got it wrong, time seems to go by faster when you get old.

Happy anniversary Michelle and Kurt!

#9 I think (sometimers, you know)

Saturday evening.

Nice paint job Lee. Sorry for the picture, that's the best I could do at 30mph. I'll get a better pic the next time I make land fall in that area.

So, what's the news?

Elvis has left the lake. (Elvis, I bet you heard that one more than once)

Only one day of very scattered showers since the last post. Nice and sunny but a little cool for some folks. You can feel autumn in the air and some trees a turning colours already.

In the International pool championship, the Chester's Jesters team soundly defeated the Kelly's Heroes. I believe I heard "Kelly's Zeroes" shouted from a big blue boat as it pulled away from the dock. In the guys versus gals game, the guys LET the girls win, 'cause we are smart.

Don't forget the tax meeting on Thursday at the Tilden Lake Community Center, and you might as well bring your own Vaseline.

Happy Birthday Super Ellia!

Five years old and a real Cutie,

and you like nice trucks.










sjc, yes, Anne fixed the George drapes or we wouldn't have let her leave.

Speaking of Anne, we took her to the airport tooooo early this morning. Thanks for coming Anne, and thanks for leaving.

Sun set last night.

The Sand Dam road is finally repaired and open to traffic. This does not mean that you can drive with the pedal to the metal.

There will be a public meeting at the Tilden Lake Community Center on August 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to explain the new taxation system for unorganized townships. Or, in other words, how they are going to "put it" to us, without the benefit of Vaseline.


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We put her to work sewing the very first morning.

Update on the Sand Dam road. No change yet. Apparently the logging company and the MNR are having a urinating contest over who will pay for the repair.

Two more days with out rain! Yesterday the thunderstorms missed us. They got it pretty good in Sudbury with pea sized hail.




9C again this morning.



If you look really, really close, you might see the young loon snorkeling while fishing.




No new updates on the Sanddam road.

Two days with out rain! YIPPEE!

The Sand Dam road is still not repaired. It is passable with caution. If Mr. Soprano and his "family" can go over the temporary repair, then I guess that most people can. The latest report is that it might be repaired on Thursday.

+9c this morning. That'll warm your cockles!

Sand Dam update.

The Sand Dam road has a temporary repair at Ben's Pond. Slow down and use caution. Ontera is on the job, so the phones should be back this afternoon???

Rainbow this morning at 6:30 and it wasn't even raining.

The Sand Dam road washed out at Ben's Pond during those storms and is not repaired yet. I'll let you know when it is open.

A rainbow in between storms yesterday.






We had some really bad storms yesterday. So far this week there have been two solar inverters and one generator killed by lightening. The Fowlers, Shaws and Frasers are not ignoring you, they also lost their phones.

It's still rainy and stormy.

Storm clouds over Bedrock on Thursday.

We have a loon family visiting our shore. The baby is now too big to ride on Mamma's back.

We had a big storm on Saturday evening, dumping an inch of rain, almost sinking some boats tied up at the Frasertown marina. The weather has been too bad to do much visiting lately. Yesterday was a nice day, except when it rained. In between showers we had a nice visit with Frank, Joan and Cathy. Nothing else to report for now.

Mergansers on our shore.

The escape.



Last evening.



Still cloudy and raining. I think we are starting to get cabin fever. Seventy days or so 'till the first frost, but who's counting? ME!

Glad to help Razor. Happy wife, happy life.

The view while drowning worms last evening. The only bites we got were from mosquitoes.

TWO! Count 'em, two days in a row without rain! Temps in the mid twenties. The bugs aren't too bad during the day, except for the nippers which chew Kita's ears off. The black flies are mostly gone and the mosquitoes don't come out 'till after dark.

Happy Birthday Grasshopper!

This newspaper clipping is from the olden days when girls in uniform pumped your gas for 20 cents a GALLON. Boy, that was a looooong time ago.

I spent the last couple of days installing a solar system for the Doc and doing some rewiring. Another one off the noisy generator. The systems are now pretty much just plug and play, making installation almost idiot proof. Soon, even you can can install one yourself, making me obsolete.



Weather, more rain and thunder storms. Almost time to board the boat, two by two.

On Friday, Lynn-Marie visited Linda and waved to everybody on the lake with her kayak paddles. She also brought a whole day without rain. But, on Saturday we got 3/4 inches of rain in half an hour. Some streets in the city were flooded.


A Tadpole.

I forget what evening this was.



On Monday we picked up this northern 'bogan to haul behind the Yammie. It came all the way from Inuvik. Thanks Frank.

On Tuesday we dog sat Lexxi, Linda's doberman(woman?). She doesn't realize how lucky she was to be on the other side of the door. George howled, hissed and growled all day.

Yesterday I thought that we would get one day without rain, but we got a shower at sun down.

Wild life pics.

This rabbit is very tame and lets you get to three to four feet of him before he casually hops away. Unusual for a rabbit. A rabid rabbit perhaps? When Kita sees the rabbits now, he mostly just ignores them.



I found this very rare Northern Penguin cavorting at the beach.

I also found a complete snake skin shed. Thirty-one inches long. Don't worry Lizard, it was a long way from the house. It must of been two, two and a half, maybe even three feet away.

Jason, don't get your skirt in a knot, I've been out of town, or, rather, in town. We went to Kitchener to visit the Bishop Superkids. With the price of gas, a trip to Michigan to visit the Brown Superkids wasn't in the budget at this time.

Fireworks at Bedrock on Canada Day Eve.

Scooter-girl Ellia.



Finally got to meet Superhappy Athena.

Superkids at the Spraygrounds.




Kita watches over Athena.



Kman learned to ride a two wheeler while we were there. Awesome, Dude! Ellia will be riding very soon.