May 19 – 25, 2017

The car was carefully packed the previous night and we left the city at 6:30 AM to beat the May long weekend traffic. Mark has had 3 hours sleep, all night gaming is fun, and he slept most of the way. Sidney is nervous, I am not sure if she likes the cabin or maybe it is the 6 hours drive listening to the Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand and Bruno Mars screaming thru the 6 speakers in Mimi’s VW station wagon.

For the past few days, we enjoyed much above normal weather that unfortunately ended with a record wind storm that took the power out for about 20 hours. That was a good reason to extend our stay and we accomplished more work on that extra day than in the previous 5 days; gardening, decoration, and layout of the future shed. Mimi went on her first kayak solo trip for 3 hours with no sunscreen. Luckily for her, after a difficult night with sore muscles, the sunburn mysteriously transformed into a suntan the next day to her delight.

We have been away for 2 weeks and the Stuart, our neighbours on the East side, have cut our lawn again and it makes us uncomfortable. We are accumulating favors and unclear on how to return the kindness.  They are nice people, full time resident and with full disclosure of the whereabouts of people in the community.  Their last story was about the destruction of the bat colony in their attic, the need to lift the roof and the poop removal with full body suit in 35 C degree weather. They said the colony moved to the neighbours house for a short period.

While feeding apples to the horses in the field next to our cabin, we exchanged salutations with Luke Mills, the neighbour across the road on the west side. The Stuart have told us that he keeps to himself, lives frugally on the rent from the lands he inherited years ago from his now deceased parents.