Our company has gone home. Sunday morning we dropped them off at the airport shuttle at O'dark-thirty. Ciao, adieu, adios, TTFN. We aren't smiling that they left, it must be gas.




SJC, we had the sunset that you were looking for on Sunday evening.





We went to town yesterday, (there no polling stations in the center), on the way back there was a big grey wolf on our driveway. It was the closest one that Grasshopper has seen. It stayed in the road for about half a minute. Sorry, no pic.

A couple of mornings ago.




Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been surrounded by ladies of the Campbell Clan. Momma Grasshopper and Grasshopper's sister Lizard have been here alllll week and I've been treated as a gossoon. (look it up Rich). The only reason I'm online now is that the girls have gone to terrorize North Bay and I'm in between risings of bread. I'll vacuum and start supper after the bread is done.


Grasshopper and her Mommy. I don't know where Lizard went to, the boat is not that big that someone could get lost.

Feeding the Whiskey Jacks.




We had a hard frost this morning. Good thing I remembered to cover the tomatoes. SJC, the long range weather is calling for a little cooler than normal, but, hopefully, with lots of sun. You might want to pack your Dr. Dentons.

Happy birthday Liz! The BIG Labbat "50"!

What a beautiful week. I'm slowly catching up on my to-do list. I think that I'm up to stuff that I was going to do in mid June, but was held up by all the rain. SJC, you should have been here this week.


No time to stop and smell the leaves.


Another morning shot.




Linda and Lynn-Marie kayaked over yesterday. That's Lynn waaay back behind Linda. She kinda sounded like an outboard. City folks don't seem to get enough exercise.



Hey Tim, I see that Yellowknife's high today is 2c, got your snow-sneakers on yet?

Another feast at the Fowler's.




The guests of honour were Josie's cousins, Jan and Elsie from Australia.



This pic is for the blokes down under.



Here, I think Keith and Jan are learning about our crocodillian mosquitoes.



Catherine put on her "Dr. Ruth" hat and "educated" Elsie.



Another typical Little Tomiko sunset ended the evening just right.

Happy Birthday Rachel ! Have a nice

day with the Superkids.

The giant tomatoes are ripening, finally. Some of them look mutated.




This shot looks like freeze up.



A nice afternoon pic.



Yesterday morning I noticed this little guy in the back yard. It seemed like it was cold so I put him/her up out of Kita's reach and in the sun. The bird kept flying down and I kept putting it back up until it just died. I think that it was some kind of warbler, but I'll defer proper ID to the expert, Joseph.

We had our first frost Wednesday morning! You can smell fall in the air. It's kind of weird to see fall coming so fast when we didn't have a summer.




It was another foggy morning.




This blog has been brought to you by the Wonderful World of Mac. Good bye Vista and the blue screen of death. Happy retirement Bill Gates, you got out just in time.

Happy Birthday Kman! This is what

you looked liked 7 years ago.










We got so much rain from hurricane Gustav that Grasshopper's paddle boat sank. The only thing keeping it up was the rope to the dock.







A hitchhiker.



Close up shot of the hitchhiker.

The geese have been flying south at a furious pace.

Just scenery pics today. We have had hot, dry, sunny weather ever since Anne left our shores.

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.


Grasshopper's sister Anne is visiting and I can't get a word in
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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.