LUNA MOTH

Rick found this beauty along his path today so I got a picture just for you.  I have only seen one of these up here before and it was a treat to see one up close.
My friend Ute has a beautiful painting by Sheila Curry of the Luna.
They are almost mythical...

CHIPPY

During our breaks, we watched Ricky wash his trailer - I had cleaned out some drawers and found some old stale almonds that I decided to feed to the resident chipmunk.  While he was out of his hole, I placed some almonds by the hole and waited for him to return.  It was so funny, the look on his face - like where did these come from?  He stuffed his face and stored them away.  I put a few more just to get some action photos.  But I never let him see me placing them there - I don't want him to associate people with food as I think this was the chipmunk who we used to feed peanuts and he bit my toe when I ignored him one day so I don't want to start that again.
Look how clean the trailer is - Ricky worked his ass off today (sorry Mr and Mrs Barr).
See Ya Bye

FISH!!!!

It has been a good couple of days for fishing!!  We hit a stream today but the water levels are so low because we haven't had any rain but the guys caught a few small ones (which we had for dinner along with some walleye they caught the other nite.  Then we decided to go to the Mississaugi after dinner for some river fishing.  First Rejean got a nice rainbow (first picture) then Ricky got a nice brookie.  Then I hooked into a nice rainbow (middle picture)  I first thought I had a snag but then it moved and in the current, it was a nice fight. Rejean did the honours of landing it.  We had to leave because we heard some thunder in the distance and it is not a smart thing to be out fishing in a storm.  The bottom picture is of a nice brookie Rejean got in the river a few days ago.  We cajuned it which is what we will do with the rainbows tomorrow nite.  You get the cast iron fry pan nice and hot and then WAM delicious!!!
Did I tell you that I love to fish?

FEEDING TIME

About a week ago I discovered a Downey or Hairey Woodpecker nesting hole in a tree on the other property - I have been around it a couple of times since and the mother and/or father are busy feeding the little guys.  Every time a parent appears at the hole, you can hear the chirping of the babies - I can't tell how many there are.  I got this picture tonite and with my new camera to boot.  You can see the grub in the beak of the bird.  These bore in trees so the parent had to really peck to get this morsel.
See Ya Bye

CHENEY LAKE FAT ASS MARATHON

Stacey ran in the First Annual Cheney Lake Fat Ass Marathon in a record time of 5 hours and 50 minutes - she acknowledged that she stopped and took a lot of pictures along the way and there were a few large hills as well.  But who was keeping track?  As long as she finished with a smile - which she did as can be seen in the last picture.  She ran from our place to almost Thessalon - along highway 129 - she heard moose and saw the bushes move but didn't see the actual creature.  That was one of her goals when she came up was to see a moose and she did see a calf run across the highway - she thought that she could get a picture but they don't stop to pose you know.
Tonite we are all going over to Roger's for a visit.
See Ya Bye

FINALLY, OUR MIRROR

I will have to try and get a better picture - maybe with my other camera - but we finally have our mirror up.  It looks amazing and is just what Rejean wanted.  The design is sand blasted onto a 1/4 inch piece of glass and then a mirror is placed behind it with a 1/2 inch space between so you get a dimensional effect.  I think with enough drinks in you, you won't need the mirror to give you that effect ;o)
Joanne Nicholls did the glass - she also carves stone, rocks, glass such as wine bottles and wine glasses etc.  She does do good work - she did some cupboard doors for a friend on Axe Lake and some jewellery and glasses for the Alpaca Farm.  She also does memorial stones for pets or loved ones.

I am very happy with it.

BUSY AS BEAVERS

It was raining (yeaaa) a bit this morning so Steve and Rick decided to do some other work - like replace the rotting stairs by the trailer.  Steve had seen some flat rocks on the other property that would make some nice stairs so that was their project today.  Turned out beautiful.  These should outlive us all.

What do you think Joan?