Nature Friday - Where Did It Go?

This was the beach at Grammie and the Big Guy's house in October of 2018.

This is the beach in July 2019 (looking the same way!)

Looking the other way.

This is the tiny bit of sand in front of the cottage (aka Grammie and the Big Guy's place).

Where did the beach go?  Lady never remembers seeing the lake so high this late in the season. The Big Guy remembers it being higher around 1985 when Lady was 10 (clearly not that important to her as she doesn't recall it). Climate change? Weather pattern cycle?  A bit of both?

Phod doesn't care, he doesn't come for the beach, he comes for the water.

Lady, now stop writing and start throwing!

Thanks to Rosy and the Boyz for hosting Nature Friday!

Another Walk

Lady messed up the time for this so some of you saw it yesterday! She clearly wasn't ready for August!

On Tuesday we shared our walk to the boat club. Today, we will share our walk to the south of the cottage.

On our way, we met this toad. Lee gave him a kiss, but he was not her prince. 

The road on the way there.

The river we crossed over.

Lee checking out the river.

Lady didn't know this trail had a name. She just thought it was the way to . . . .

the lighthouse! This is the Point Clark Lighthouse. The lighthouse was built between 1855-1859. It is one of the few to be made primarily from stone. Lady, Lady's Dad, Lady's Grandmother and most likely her Great Grandmother have all climbed to the top.

This is our best lighthouse pose!

It was very hot, even at 7:30 am. The walk is about 1.5 km (almost a mile) one way to the lighthouse, and there is sooooooo much to smell.

We hope you enjoyed this walk today.


PS. Grammie and the Big Guy have been kind and let Lee sleep with them (we have fireworks and another thunderstorm). We are not sure if she slept, but she didn't keep the house up, so we are all ok with that!

Wordless Wednesday - Post Storm Nap

A Walk

Come on an evening walk with us at Point Clark. 

This is what the roads look like here near Lake Huron. 

Lady says it is more sniffing than walking . . . there is a lot of peemail to read.

On this walk, we walked to the boat club. Years ago, Lady's Grandfather kept a sailboat named the Trillium here (Lady's family has had a cottage/now house here since sometime in the 1930s).

Walking down to the beach we saw JAWS! (Note Lady was born the day Jaws entered the theatre, weird random fact).

 Lake Huron

On the way back, what did Lee see?

A bunny!

Last stretch back to the cottage.

This is our garbage can. Because this is cottage country, you have to mark if you have garbage or no.

Hope you enjoyed our walk!

Mischief Monday - Road Trip to a Storm

Greetings from Point Clark!

On Saturday, we got up very, very early, and got into the car with Lady. We knew it was going to be fun even if she didn't give us breakfast. This with his anti-nausea meds meant Phod did not throw up!

Ok, being in the car was not that fun. We were in it for 87 million hours (Editor's Note 8.5 hours and we covered about 740 km/560mi).

Hailey sat up most of the drive there

But then we finally got here to visit Grammie, the Big Guy and their dog Tendra. 

It was fun, until the thunderstorm came. The one during the day was less stressful. Lee found the perfect place to hide. 

 It was the one at night that caused the mischief.

A very heavily medicated Lee thought the only safe place in the house was in bed with Grammie. Since that couldn't happen, Lady ended up in the living room, with all the lights on, and music playing. Lady had to spray Lee with water to get her to stop digging the wall. (Lady felt very bad about this, but one squirt seemed to stop. Lee and she was able to sleep in the hall).  Lady slept on the couch from 1-3, in her bed from 3-4:30, and then everyone was up for a bit a 4:30 (that may have been Tendra's fault). Finally, we were able to sleep until 8. Needless to say, we had a fairly quiet, nappy day yesterday.

Lee trying to get to Grammie's room

Phod not sure what is going on in the middle of the night

 There is suppose to be another thunderstorm tonight. Lady hopes we can work it out so if Lee needs to she can just sleep with Grammie.

Nature Friday - A Baby

The quality of these pictures is not great. Lady was working at her desk and was in the middle of a consult when she looked up to see Bambi in the yard. Over the past few weeks the fawns have appeared in our neighbourhood. 

There are also two young bucks with little antlers starting. We hope Lady gets some better pictures soon!

Lee vs The Pool

As mentioned Tuesday, a puppy pool can now be found at our place. While Phod took to it like a fish out of water,  Lee was more hesitant.



Yes, I am clearly a caring a sensitive wife!




In the end she would stand in it a bit and drink from it. So that is something! We will see if she starts to like it more (at the lake she will only stand in it).