The End of This Trip

I know that I sort of implied in the last post that our trip had ended and, in a way it had, but in another way it was not yet complete.

As I mentioned at the end of the last post,

Kita enjoying the morning walk

we stopped at our second home by Crow Lake for a 4 day weekend with Michael. He arrived Friday evening around 11 pm (one day later than originally expected due to Thursday being occupied by important stuff at work). On arrival he told us that he had run into a deer on his way here from the airport! The animal suddenly appeared in front of the car and there was no chance to avoid hitting it or stopping. Fortunately he was not injured and the damage to the car appeared to be surprisingly minor.

Cribbage on the deck - but, why the oranges?

We lucked out with the weather as it was a beautiful 4 days with lots of sun and warmth with highs in the high 20’s, even 30 C on one day. Warm enough one day that Michael actually immersed himself in the lake to cool off and  he found the water to be surprisingly temperate. Swimming in Crow Lake on Memorial Day weekend has been a bit of a ritual for a lot of years but it was more often a “chilly challenge” than a means to cool off and usually it was Ann, occasionally Michael, and, more recently, Shayla and, possibly, Ryan who stepped up to the challenge..

To keep the cards from blowing away - of course.

At least on one of our morning walks it was sufficiently warm and humid that even the mosquitoes were there in fewer numbers.

In addition to the regular early morning walks there were others as well, a couple later in the day along our usual route on the road and one at Meisel Woods on the west side of Crow Lake. And Kita enjoyed the freedom of the walks and this morning she had her first encounter with a wild “critter”, closer to her size than the usual squirrels and chipmunks, in the form of a red fox! The chase was brief; there was a bit of a yelp when Kita caught hold of the fox, also briefly, and then a there was a stand-off for a few seconds before the fox took off again into the trees. Kita went after it but we presume the fox was quicker as Kita soon came back to join us on the walk. No injuries to Kita - not sure about the fox.

Meisel Woods

More Meisel Woods

On Saturday Michael and I did a bit of grocery shopping which included a visit to the nearby  “gourmet”  meat store, “Seed to Sausage”, where we picked up steaks, burgers, some of their specialty sausages and bacon as well as cheeses and condiments.  It was fortunate that we worked in our walks because, as you can discern, we ate well! And the great weather made it possible for our snack times and meals to be outdoors, either in the gazebo or on the deck.

Reading

There was a game of “13 handed rummy” and a little cribbage happened on the deck as well as the usual reading. With good internet access we were also able to watch a couple of Blue Jays games on the computer monitor.

A great weekend made even better by a classic Crow Lake sunset!

Michael left today so now the work of getting organized and shrinking the volume of our paraphernalia. Some of it we will leave here so that we can deliver the Thule roof top carrier to its source on our way back to Dundas on Thursday, June 2nd.

That will be the end of our trip which began on April 26th.