Firstly, before sometimers sets in and I forget, Linda Birkby has sold her cottage so we will be holding a pot luck at Razor's Lube and Grill (Little Tomiko Cottages) on Sunday Aug 1. so that everybody can say so long. Cocktails start 4'ish. BYOB, BYOchair. We will try to contact as many people as we can, but if we miss any body, please let them know.

One of the problems with not doing posts as regular as I used to, I sometimes forget when and where certain events occurred. So, here are some random pictures taken at random times and places. I'll add notes where the rememory circuits are working.


Some afternoon(????) Richie, Leanne, Addison, Bear, Ben, Laura and Cody dropped by. Cody is the cute little red head, not the tall goofy one.




There's Addison, hiding behind Ben.












Lee bought a stairway to...




Diesel hitching a ride. I do remembering Vicki serving an awesome supper on this evening and Lee doing an OK job on the steaks.




You too can have a nice camp fire just like this one if you use large amounts of fossil fuel to kick start it.




I DO remember this day, JULY 19 Grasshopper's birthday. I picked the berries and made the blueberry buckle coffee cake myself, from scratch.

We spent last Friday afternoon with the Brown Superkids in town. Not too many pics as the paparazzi was too slow on the shutter button.




The blue heron chicks are getting pretty big. Probably off to college soon.



I just missed this shot. The ripples at the top left are loons diving while George was duck hunting. That is just a stick on the ramp.



This looked like another storm, but it fizzled out pretty quick.



George's loons came up for air.



This one ran away across the water singing "loony" tunes.



Blueberries.



Fog this morning.




That was a good one Tim. I hope the Antichrist Gates isn't running amok inside your computer.

Shalom, Sheila! Long time...etc. I can just see you now on the BIG island in your grass skirt. How do you keep those coconut shells on? At least the skirt won't catch fire on the Wet Coast. But I hear that that's not the grass that they smoke in British California any way. ...PS Who's old?

It's not the heat, it's the humility? WoW, it's been hot lately, too hot for us winter people. The air is almost as humid as the lake. This pic taken at 8 am on a sunny day. I've actually had to jump in the lake a bunch of times already. Yeah, I know, it's not even August yet!




Monday was His Lordship's ^( th birthday. (you can decode the code). Most of His subjects came to the castle to help him celebrate. Here is Bloke Mick with the seated Duke Edwin.




Gord tells such sad stories that it brings tears to Joan's eyes.




More peons.




And a few more vassals.




The Banquet Hall.





Grasshopper has finally gotten off facebook long enough to post her bear pics and some over due winter shots.

Another thunderstorm yesterday. That mad rush you heard was the Little Tomiko solar users running to turn off their inverters, which have a habit of blowing up in an electrical storm.







Hail.
















Water beaten to a white, frothy foam.




Welcome home Razor, hope you enjoyed the fire works.

I'm back. There a a couple of reasons for not posting regularly lately. I'm still busy. Here, around the lake, and cleaning culverts on the Notman road. Not too many silly people doing silly things but that could change tomorrow when someone returns from Chile. Oh, there was the case of camp lot-a-bull's the no wheel 4wheeler, but I didn't actually witness that escapade.


We felt the earthquake here. A little rattling, shaking and swaying. Just enough to say "!@#$" ?

Grasshopper is in town yard saleing today. This time she isn't buying, she is "manning" the tables for the Queen of London who is down-sizing some stuff.

Speaking of royalty, Sir Edwin, master of all he surveys, is back home recuperating and doing very well.


A-frame shingled and painted.




New deck and stairs. We'll stain them next year after the pressure treated wood has aged a bit.




We bought a new stove. It is wider than the old one, so the knee wall had to go and the wall patched. The floor had to be leveled and the flooring patched up.



Now we'll have to paint?




This could be a record year for blueberries on our property.




Some are trying to ripen already. Isn't this usually a July/August thing? Everything seems really early this year.





We had a couple of storms the past week. This one came roaring in with lots of flash bangs and wind and about an inch of rain. Then we had a quieter one that dropped 1.5 inches of rain in a few hours that caused some erosion.




Momma and babies. I'll try to get a pic of George trying to figure out how to catch a duck. He sits on the ramp or a rock and watches them go by.




"Fish are jumpin"

I know that it has been awhile since I've posted. But I've been too busy. We had a really nice sunset the other day, but I was too busy to take a pic. We also had a nice sun rise, but I was too busy. You should have seen the thousands of geese that flew over the past week or so, but I was TOO BUSY!

Also, since we have the high speed high speed, I barely get a chance on the computer because a certain someone has turned into a main line down loader like a crackberry addict.

OK, here are a few pics.


Can you see the bunny?





How about now?




I couldn't get Grasshopper to do the shingling for me, but she was willing to do the painting.




A female merganser beside the dock. Actually some ducks have had babies about a week ago, BUT I WAS TOO BUSY TO TAKE A PIC.




If you squint, you can see baby bass that hatched last week.




The other day Kita caught a baby bunny. He was "right some proud" as they say in the land the land that time forgot. Pretty good for a 15.5 year old.




OK, now that you have the bunny, where do you hide it? AH in grasshopper's garden!




Loon at the dock.




Last Friday we got to spend the afternoon with the Brown Super kids. Calliope with a smile to brighten up the day.




Super Nova with a hockey smile.




Super dog sitters making sure that Kita doesn't escape again.




Kita had his 500,000 mile checkup yesterday and he is doing well for some one who is 108 human years old.

A big "GET WELL SOON" to his highness, Sir Edwin, the Lord of Little Tomiko who is recovering from bypass surgery in Sudbury.

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY

CALLIOPE!

You are too cute. Nice bling too.












I've been too busy lately to take pics or to post. I may have to go back to Nasty Puke for a rest, especially since they have found a cure for festering boils.