More Thanksgiving photos

See earlier post for the first set of Thanksgiving photos. In this post the first photo is Ruth and Shayla disseminating Milkweed seeds, then Ryan in front of three or four beautiful maples, three is enroute home from the walk and four is just before Thanksgiving dinner.
The blogger requires low resolution photos - creating those files reduces the intensity of the colors so they appear a bit muted on the blog. Envision slightly more intense colours, especially the reds, than you see on your computer screen.

Thanksgiving, 2008

This was a great Thanksgiving weekend! Shared with Ann, Pat, Shayla and Ryan and Vic and Babs and Sheila Harms.

The weather was beautiful, sunny and warm all weekend so as much time as possible was spent outside walking, canoeing, kayaking, reading, snoozing, talking, catching up on dictations; and inside, eating, playing crokinole, taking swimming officiating exams, more snoozing, etc.

No one went in swimming on purpose though there were a couple of involuntary partial immersions.

The foliage colors were quite spectacular this year - hard to remember from one year to the next, but this one definitely seems to be one of the best.

A few photos give a glimpse of the colour around Patterson Point this year.

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More cabin changes

These are not great photos but I am posting them just to give some views of our new room and the placement of the new east window in the cabin.
The first picture is looking into the new room from the kitchen and the second is similar but includes the bathroom.
The third is looking toward the kitchen from the north end of our room.
The fourth is the new east window in the second floor of the main cabin.
Fifth is a photo of part of the front of the new shed.

Quiet time

Shayla stayed with us for a few days after Ann and Ryan left - this is the first time we have had the opportunity to be with her on her own. It was fun for us and I hope for Shayla. She did lots of crafts with Ruth, helped with meals and she helped me with projects like putting a preservative on the cedar siding on the gazebo. We went for walks, played lots of games, Shayla and I went canoeing one day and Ruth and Shayla went to Perth together and Shayla got Ruth into the water!
Shayla is now back home and things are quiet until Rick and Joanne get here the Tuesday after Labour Day.
Not many photos but there is one to document Ruth's swim and one of Shalya in her water colours "lesson". A Great Blue Heron flew into the bay and "perched" on a rock while we were eating dinner in the gazebo and that same evening there was a unique red sunset in a virtually cloudless sky.

Games and crafts

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Michael, Ann, Shayla and Ryan were here for a few days (too few) last week and over the weekend (joined by Pat for two days). We were lucky to have great weather the whole time they were here, so there were walks, swimming (Shayla and I swam to Gull Rock, accompanied by Ann in the canoe and Ann swam back so the tired young and old could ride), canoeing, kayaking, catching fish, games, crafts, lots of photos and the annual shared "surprise" birthday party for Shayla, Amber and me.
Too many photos to show on the blog, but here are pics of crocinole on the deck and sculpting in the gazebo.

Dinner and games in the gazebo

When Vic and Babs were here we had our first full dinner in the gazebo on a beautiful but very cool August evening - the photos show the jackets required.

We have had several dinners there now including Rick and Ron along with Ann, Shayla and Ryan and Ruth and me. We haven't worked out the best arrangements for dinner for more than 4 or 5, but that will happen.

Since Ann and the kids arrived we have had two evenings of after dinner games.

The first two photos are a bit blurry as they were taken through the screen.

The next is a photo of the game players in the gazebo (not that clear) with the evening sun shining on the gazebo and the last is taken inside as the game goes on.

New West Window in the old cabin.

Rick and Ron came yesterday to do some additional work including installing another new window in the "lower cabin" on the west side. As can be seen from the photos it is a long narrow window set low in the wall. It gives a very nice view of the lake from different areas of the room, including while lying in bed!

As is the habit this year, we had a very heavy and long rain this morning so they were not able to install the other windows as they had planned. That will have to be done in September when they return.

The photos show the holes from old window and new from outside and inside, Rick getting ready to put siding on and the last shows the completed new window in place with new siding highlighted by the setting sun.