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hometown envy or my weekend

i suffer from hometown envy.  i am envious of all the hometowns out there, the ones that i see you visiting, taking pictures of, the ones where you are finding your relaxation and entertainment.  like kath who lives in the visually gorgeous area known as niagara.  her living room window frames the gestation of grapes and just down the road there is a birthing center where all those new born grapes are squished and bottled for our enjoyment.  she has a plethora of fruits and vegetables at her fingertips and of course she has the craziest thing of all, the niagara falls, canadian side. woo hoo.  

 

every time i look at your photos and your towns i am filled with enthusiasm.  i am all "let's go there right now"!! a. busted me out of the jail called recovery, he woke me up at 7:00 a.m on saturday morning and asked me how i was feeling. "let's go to the garlic festival."  nothing makes me happier than jumping in the car and going somewhere, anywhere.  we toss charley in the back, grab our environmentally friendly grocery sacs, coffee to go and we go.  i have been out of commission for a week or two and had a serious case of cabin fever, this was a big outing for me but man we had fun.

i took pictures, charley behaved herself, we had the world's worst garlic breath by ten in the morning!  but so did everyone else. 

 

we met the lady who built this furniture and wrote a book about building your own twig furniture.

i challenged myself to work with some of miz booshay's  picturing taking advice, i worked towards some bookay of my own. easier said than done, i looked quite the amateur pulling scraps of paper out of my pocket to check different camera settings. hey, i never said i wasn't a newbie.  

 

and look where we had lunch, we lined up and ate at kathleen's kitchen! i wish!

margie

My weekend, in photos

Spending Time with Family


 
Watching Butterflies

 

Waiting for the weather to change, again and again.



Volunteering at a Regatta



Am happily tired, like this guy was.

What did you do?

Kath

fishing for friends

just a few weeks ago three girlfriends and i went up to a cottage for two days. it was a beautiful day and after a night of partying and gabbing, we were up early and sitting on the dock. before long the fishing rods were hauled out, the worms retrieved from the cooler and the fishing began. one of the girls had never fished. never.

we fished the entire day, we ate chips, drank beer, slept on the dock, ate steaks, drank wine, went to bed early. we had the best time. we didn't shower, the water pump was broken and the lake was too cold but we were away from home, no one was looking at us. we took time to leave our responsibilities and just chill. i took photos all day, the girls taped me snoring and played it on the stereo speakers so the whole lake could hear, we lit fireworks and read magazines. we had a big breakfast, and stopped at a chip truck on the way home for hotdogs and fries. we laughed and laughed.

all the women, each of us, once in a while have to take time off to be away from everything,
it's important

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because these fancy fingers learned how to hook a worm

and then these same fingers took that fish off the hook.

girl power, team work, fishing for friends.

 

margie

summer in the city

july first was the first day of summer around here.  june rained on our party.  we canadians are entitled to a great summer, we have such a winter.   since the first of july, sunny and hot every day.   

we have been busy with road trips to here 

swimming here

going here bluesfest

doing this

for the wakeboarders in the family 

and last but not least, kissing this

yay summer.