Sep 2 - another day and a half

Yes, it's been that long. Our life is so exciting !

The weather is beautiful. Sunny, moderate winds, 72F, it was perfect for a bike ride yesterday and I did partake. Before that I went over to Deloris's to look at a window that she wanted caulked. I concluded and convinced her, that caulking would do nothing. It would only emphasize the peeling paint. The area needs scraping, painting, caulking, some dry rot replaced ... inside and out ... you get the idea. Any application of any fix to a small area would make it look worse.

Today, per my promise of yesterday, I went over with a half-dozen stakes and pounded them in at the edges of her driveway and spray painted them orange so that she can see where the edges are on the way down the slope when she's driving. It's a fairly narrow laneway with a steep dropoff on one side all the way and both sides for part of the way. Now, after the driveway work, those edges are soft too so you don't want to get too close.

Jimmy is guiding at Smokey today but he called yesterday and talked to Sandy saying that he got his splitter going and would be over tomorrow morning to help me deal with the wood. In anticipation of that, I decided to drop the birch tree that was mostly dead (note the past tense) between Jason's place and ours. It's not dead anymore -- it's past being dead. It is now cut up and awaiting splitting as well with the maple from Worosz's and the basswood from Robinson's. Unfortunately the maple that was at Robinson's shore that Dale Brooks took down when he was doing the driveway simply ended up trashed at the end of the road. He was paid to cleanup, not make firewood. There was a lot of maple there -- now the shoreline looks barren ... unfortunately.

What else ... oh, I took the minnow traps over this morning and after I complete this blog I'll pick them up again. I'm trying something new -- Donnie says that he floats his just under the surface. I'll see if that produces more minnows. I went out fishing this morning and got a small bass, a crappie and a sunfish -- all of which went back into the lake. I went through a passle of minnows though because there were perch around stealing them. It seems that the larger bass have stopped biting, or perhaps I've just not found any the last couple of days.

Sandy has gone to Toronto for her colour/cut and may or may not be back tonight. She didn't get a lot of sleep last night and was concerned that she might be too tired to drive back. I'll hear from her in a bit with the final decision on that because her appointment was at 1:30. Prior to that she was going to Sherway Gardens shopping centre and the St. Lawrence Market.

I've decided to do the ride in Toronto on Sunday which means heading out of here late Friday (after Mass and an early dinner), staying at Stef's, going to the ride early Sunday a.m., driving back that night. It's a 200k -- normally I would complete something like that in under 10 hours; the organizer says 12-13 and that we'll ride together; I'll probably head out on my own at some point and hope to do better than 12-13 although riding around city streets can be slow.

Tomorrow, assuming that Sandy is back and the weather continues to cooperate, we'll go for a boat ride. Jason is coming up later today, I believe, and counting on me for help -- presumably to move his boat and perhaps the quonset hut -- prior to his garage being delivered tomorrow morning. He's getting a pre-fab steel garage -- like Ikea you only have to bolt it together. In this case though, I think that it's a number of days work with power nut drivers to assemble same. He got a great price, in my opinion, and will be pleased with the result.

That's about it.