And Around and Around we go!! Excitement in the Air!

Around and around we go-on the mower!!
I haven't been blogging regularly-and I won't even bother to make excuses for myself. Theres not a lot new here just busy days of the same old same old and I sure don't want to bore you all, repeating the same thing over and over, I can't even seem to make it interesting for you. I envy those of you who keep up your blog daily and are able to make it so interesting! I guess my talents lay elsewhere. And writing isn't one of them..(nor is my singing - but don't tell anyone)! 

I trust all of our Canadian friends had a nice July 1st and our American friends had a wonderful day, celebrating today.

We left home last Friday morning and headed up to the cottage for the long weekend- to get the mowing done, and spruce up the property up there. The weather was gorgeous and we put in a full day mowing. When Rick wasn't on the ride  on I was - that poor old mower never stopped and we accomplished our task by Friday evening. Our lawn is 4.5-5 acres of mowing..ugh...but its so pretty when its all done. The header picture is a snap of 'some' of the field.

Ossumer parked up at the cottage

This barn is across the road from the cottage and was built many many moons ago by Rick's grandfather-long before Rick's time. And Rick's mom who was 94 when she passed in 2010 never remembered it not being there, so we have no idea how old it truly is. We store our 4 wheelers etc in there-there is a nice babbling brook down behind the barn-good fishing - if this barn could talk we would hear some wonderful stories. This property was Rick's mom's homestead where she was born and raised. The original house is now gone but we resurrected a cottage/camp of sorts remodeling the old grainery.

Old Grainery -before remodel-when we had our fiver

Our little piece of heaven today-after remodel

Now here is a piece of history-this old wood stove is in our cottage and it has cooked many good meals and kept many family members warm for the last 4 generations. It belonged to Ricks grandmother and she cooked on it for many many years before her passing in 1951-and in the winter I cook on it today. We also have an electric stove for the spring and summer months..

After the mowing was accomplished it was time for happy hour. Our sons arrived on Saturday with their guitars (beer) and instruments, and stayed until Monday. We loaded up the table with good food, and celebrated a friend's birthday. The place was never empty- so needless to say we all had a great time. The music was excellent as was the company and we enjoyed many good belly laughs with the boys and their friends...they are definitely comedians. And charmers, as some way- some how all those kids had Rick and I, bbqing hot dogs for them at 2am Monday morning. Sunday night we enjoyed a show of fireworks in town, then when we got back to the cottage the boys put on another show as they had brought fire works with them. I just love being close enough to smell the fireworks. 

Monday afternoon we all tiredly (is that a word?) packed up and headed home and I dove into the laundry and cleaning up the mh from our weekend away. 

Today was a mowing day here at home, for Mr. Rick while I cleaned house and polished things up for our 'special company' who arrives tomorrow afternoon. Donna and Ralph from Our Adventures with Tassie and their friends Buck and Jeanie will be arriving to visit. The foreman was out today making sure the yard was done up fit for a king of course, and he even installed new 30amp hookups for them. So we are very excited to see them again and are looking forward to their arrival!!! So thats our 'excitement in the air'. And considering it is now 1am I feel I've rambled on long enough - take care all and please stay safe out there. Remember,

"Home is where you park it"