Time to Leave, The Last Brunch

The Birches to The Ridge

It was another later morning for me on Sunday, Sept. 13th but I still was not last. My blog was completed last night so my morning was free to finish packing. We can all be quite organized when it is necessary but with a smaller house, we did manage to have an organized chaos all week.

Good morning!
Our last day begins

With checkout at noon, we played another common game of Scrabble (for the record, I was near the bottom for each one. Mom used to say 'sucking the hind tit' 🤭🤣 from our farm days), had our morning brews and yogourt and set up for a group photo. 

Cathy takes her turn in Scrabble.
Donna in the background waiting.

Audrey and I have the tripods. She has pictures to share with our group as well. We washed our beach towels last night and our host has asked us to begin the wash for our towels. We plan to write a united review. So, we were all ready (and a bit anxious to see our men) so checked out at 11:30.

Audrey and I testing our
camera set up.

The plan was to go to a new place called Armen's Cafe for brunch but it was only open Tues. to Sat. Good grief! So much for that, so we walked back to The Lighthouse but on Sunday, it is where everyone and his brother goes so no room there. Ten tables ahead of us. LOL

L to R
Patsy, Donna, Cathy, Audrey, Gayle

Okay, plan C was to drive in our 2 vehicles as far as Paisley and see if we could get in there. Woohoo! Steph made it happen for us and we went upstairs for our meal. Most of us, had chicken quesadillas and we were on our way shortly after 2 pm after hugs every which way.

Ptooties loaded to the hilt
for 3 of us.

Donna, Audrey and I carried on in Ptooties and arrived at Donna's home within 30 minutes or so. More hugs and good byes and I felt a little silly riding by myself for the rest of the way to the Ridge. 🤭 Felt like I was forgetting something (one). It was another awesome day, could have been a beach day!

This was our usual venue,
The Lighthouse but they were backed up
today!

Bill and Gibbs greeted me with hugs and kisses, Gibbs being a little noisier than my Sweetie. 🤣 Donna forgot something (well, the 3 of us did) in my cooler so the 4 of them (A,T,G,D) drove out to pick it up so the leftover could be someones supper meal. 

The Paisley Common's quesadilla
was top notch.
I ate it all!

Bill made himself a couple of bacon and egg sandwiches as I wasn't too hungry. I finished my half Reuben and that was quite enough for me. I thik I've gained (!) Miss Piggy, so will wait and see what the scales say tomorrow. I won't be telling!

Cuddles with Gibbs

Yes, I'm talking about you
💖

We watched the next episode of Reacher, Bill went upstairs and I chose to find a movie called The Words downstairs rather than finish my blog. Sorry, on a busy day, I just don't have it in me to sit at my laptop. 

And look who is cooking his
supper. He does very well on his own
when I'm away. I don't need to worry.
💕

Robin texted to see if I could clean on Monday and because Ron started cleaning the Mat on the wrong day, I have that to do in the morning as well as laundry. 

It looks like rain to the north of us.

I think that catches me up! A wonderful warm day until late afternoon when it cooled off quite a bit.

Together again.
💘
Good night!

Thank you for the visit! I hope you also enjoyed Ladyfest! 🤭 That's a wrap for another year!

Looking for Yard Sales

The Birches

On Saturday, Sept. 12th it was before 7 when I quietly came out of the bedroom. Gayle was still in dreamland. 😴 It is the quiet time (mostly) that I need to finish my blog and this morning, all I needed to do was add pictures.

Good morning!
Starting my day with a good
breakfast, but oh too many
tater tots.

It was another beautiful day in the neighbourhood so decided to eat breakfast earlier. We tried a new venue called Just Like Mom's and as it turned out it was full. Later, from a fellow beach bum, we discovered that was a blessing. 😀

Back to our regular haunt, The Lighthouse, we noticed 3 new waitresses from our previous visits. Today, I went back to the Eggs Benedict with tater tots and they were just as yummy. We brought the last of the tots home for Audrey to finish for me.

We found this 'free' yard sale.
That little stand came back with me.

I drove today, my turn, so from there we searched for yard sales. We found one small one of not much interest to me (hmm, what did I find for $2?) and then heard about a closing 'free' yard sale. I guess it should be called 'yard free'. 🤭 She was a lovely lady disposing of many unique dishes and yard things.

Another beautiful beach day

Whether I had room or not, I picked up a couple of glass dishes and a sturdy wooden 2-tier stand that I know I will make use of somewhere. It was too good to pass up, so Ptooties will be jam-packed when we leave here. We did have room for a few purchases!

We came home, changed into swimsuits and walked down to the beach again. Cathy drove, as she can park close to where we sit on the benches. The wind had picked up as forecasted (I hope Bill's Fun Fly went okay back home) and there were some dark clouds moving overhead.

Audrey brought her 7' frog kite, with newly added string but no reel/handle came with it so it would be tricky bringing it back in IF we could even get it off the ground. She wisely chose to wait until she was home for its maiden flight. Gayle and I went in to swim first and it was chilly for a short while. 

It was so refreshing with a few small waves from the wind. Again, we stretched out on our towels, Cathy on the bench, and enjoyed the breeze, the heat of the sun and then the coolness of the cloud cover. It couldn't have been nicer and I got two beach days!

We walked back and Audrey and Gayle drove down a couple of blocks to the lady with the 'Blocks' to meet her and maybe purchase something. The 3 of us remaining, stayed put, made a cup of tea and I worked on my blog. 

Today is pack up day, never the fun part of these adventures but we do have until 12 noon to check out tomorrow. So, not worrying about that right now, we dressed for supper. We had a suggestion to go to Port Elgin to Saffron, a new unique restaurant. It will test our taste buds for sure.

The menu had items
most of us had never tasted.

And it did. We were there for a 6 pm reservation and after a very chipper (play on words because we ate outside on the patio with many chipmunks running around) part owner relayed the menu and specials. Many things I've not heard of.

Plantain appetizer &
my Mexican beef wrap

I ordered the Mexican Beef Wrap and it was shredded/pulled beef with lettuce, onion and tomato served with sour cream and a chick pea/cucumber/apple salad. I didn't care for the salad but it wasn't terrible. 

The wrap was a bit spicy but it was delicious. Half came home with me, it was huge! Audrey bought an appetizer of fried plantain to share and Donna bought a large piece of homemade banana cream cake for dessert that we all shared. Yummy. Our last night out together.

On the way back to Southampton, we could see the sun making way to setting so we went straight to the beach, parked and walked down to join the 30 others doing the same thing. What a gorgeous sky! Back home, the fury was on for some packing, Cathy, Donna and I had already started.

We went straight to the beach again
to catch this performance.

This was a wonderful day. Bittersweet but I believe it is time. I'm anxious, as I'm sure the rest are, to get back home to my sweeties and my normal routine. Bill took Gibbs to his Fun Fly so I connected with him to see how their day went before calling it a night. 

Good night!

We reached 26C/78.8F this afternoon. Awesome! Thank you for your visit and your comments.