A time to remember

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, a day to remember the thousands of men and women who sacrificed their lives in military service.  Many events will be going on tomorrow as a result and the weather forecast is promising.

For those of you who like to read my weekly blog, you are in for a treat:  I am doing two blogs this weekend.  A short one tonight, to recap the week, and another tomorrow, which will be all about Cooper.  You may recall that I mentioned last week that Cooper has now been with us for one year.  My second blog tomorrow will be all about the absolute joy and trials and tribulations of that first year with the Coop.

This past week went by very fast.  We got the professional pictures that were taken of our house in early October. They are very nice.  I attach two pictures of the front and back of the house, courtesy of Sandy McKay.  We also reviewed the article to appear in Our Homes Magazine in December.  It will be a good article.

Good progress was made on our carport thanks to Johnny K and the heavy timber posts are ready.  Matt will continue the work this coming week.

Well, hunting season is now in full force in the Muskoka.  This week and next week is prime hunting time for deer and bear.  You would not believe how many people we saw on the road, trucks and hunting equipment in tow.  Today, on our way to and from Mactier, we saw two men dressed with an orange jacket and equipped with their riffles, going in to the forest to hunt something.....I had never actually seen hunters with their gear on so I was quite impressed.  I wasn't so impressed when we saw, on our way home, a deer carcass gutted and hung to dry on the front porch of a house.  Now, that is totally gross if you ask me.  I can still picture that poor deer hanging dry from that house on highway 141.

Now, you will want to know where is Mactier and why we were going there.  Mactier is about 100 km  from Huntsville, on Healey Lake. It is one of many communities in the Township of Georgian Bay.  We went there to visit Martin and Dawn and their little dog Rylee.  I used to work with Martin and we have kept in touch since I retired.  They have a beautiful cottage, on the lake, and a lot of the work has been done by Martin himself, with the great help of Dawn.  We had a nice lunch and it was really nice to see them again.  Cooper and Rylee had a ball and no doubt they will sleep well tonight.

That's about it for this blog.   Have a nice weekend everyone!