A Slower Day

The Birches, Southampton, On 

On Monday, Sept. 7th I was the first one up......to stay......and it was 6:45. Gayle was still asleep beside me so I quietly crept out to the kitchen. Audrey was in the pull out couch bed and beginning to move. The house was quiet. 

Good morning!
Here are us 5 ladies,
having fun.

I needed to finish my blog so sat at the dining table and worked away while the rest of the girls moseyed out from their lairs. (teehee) They settled at the puzzle and I tried to concentrate on my post. When Bill sent me a picture of our sweet boy at the flying field with him, it warmed my heart. 

Breakfast/lunch

We all plugged away until the puzzle was finished around 12:30. Good, now the table can be used for our games. Yes, we are certainly 'games' sisters. 😉 Donna called ahead this time and we agreed to go to a breakfast place called Rise and Shine. 

Cathy suggested this place

My 3 egg ham & cheese omelette w/tater tots was very good and filled me. From there, I drove us to the Southampton Market - a huge place with many rooms and an upstairs. Everything was new, but so interesting so we perused for a couple of hours, maybe. 

Lots to look at

The girls all found something but I walked out with my $ still in my wallet for a change! Lots of things that would be nice but no place for them. It was 3:15 when we came back to the house to relax for a while. I poured myself a Mojito and started my blog before joining them on the porch.

Fun things to read

I waited for the girls and
was entertained quite easily

It's a lovely day again, 21C/69.8F with mostly sunny skies. Perfect! The afternoon was spent outside, sharing photos and poems from past Ladyfests and that was quite fun. We had a lot of laughs. 

A quiet afternoon
going through pictures
and memories

At 6:15, it was time to get dressed for the evening which just mean jeans instead of shorts. I drove into Port Elgin to Allan's Fireside Grill and it is a typical bar-type grill. 3 of us ordered ribs, 1 ordered a quesadilla and 1 ordered a blue cheese steak salad. There were drinks on the table as well. 🤭 My Pina Colada was tasty!

We ate outside and enjoyed
our meals.

Back at 'home', we had an ongoing Scrabble game started and we played a confusing game of Double Series (5 players) and then Donna and I each won a game of Cribbage against each other. Games we haven't played in years. It was shortly after 11 when I crawled into bed.

And look who went to the
flying field with Daddy!
(and had a couple of hotdogs)
Good night!

This was another great day. I hope your long holiday weekend (if you celebrate it in your area) was also wonderful. 

Thank you for the visit!

The Waiting is Over!

 The Ridge 

As per usual, on Sunday Sept. 6th, I was awake shortly after 6:00. Bill and Gibbs were still asleep. Or acting as if they were.🤭 when they got up to go outside I just acted as if I was asleep. It's nice just to lay there quietly

Good morning!
Gibbs and I had some comfortable
cuddle time this morning.💕

I got up about 10 after 7:00 because I wanted to be sure to say goodbye to my sweetie before he went to the Flying field. He will have a good week, and so will Gibbs but I do believe Gibbs knows something is happening. Can that be?

And it's a lovely day for
Ladyfest to begin.

He's following me everywhere, even more so then usual, and a couple of times when I sat in my chair he stayed right on my lap and fell asleep instead of climbing up on the back of the chair. I'm going to miss him too. I told Bill I will miss him in my quiet moments but we both know I'll be busy and entertained enough😅 as will he.

4 Moonflowers today

So just because I felt that maybe I was taking too many clothes I went through my suitcases again but still didn't remove anything other than what I'm wearing today. I had my tea then my shower and packed the last items up, leaving my laptop until the last minute. I usually take my big camera and tripod but I'm not going to. My phone and small tripod work just fine.

We enjoyed Paisley
Btw, that is Steph - top picture
Those puffs are freeze-dried gummy bears
Very sweet.

At 10:50 I made my coffee to go, put the last two case and cooler in Ptooties and slowly drove to Hanover. Audrey arrived yesterday from Montreal and is at Donna's so I picked them both up at 11:30. The drive from there to The Birches bnb in Southampton was a mere 30 minutes.

Mushroom soup with basil

We drove as far as Paisley for a 12 noon reservation at the Paisley Common, a place Bill and I are quite familiar with. 😃 Do you remember Covid year when we stayed home for the winter? This was our Friday night dinner spot. We met Gayle and Cathy here.

This is weird, interesting, strange.
And it has a license plate.
????

We had a great lunch of homemade mushroom soup with basil and enjoyed the ambience, decor and especially Steph, the co-owner/waiter/host. We left there and perused one of the few shops that were open on Sunday. An interesting place, only Cathy purchased something.

We went to the beach while waiting
for the cleaner to finish our bnb

From there, to Port Elgin's Goodwill where we all found some goodies to add to our already full vehicles. Our bnb was not ready for us until 4 pm so we found its location and drove around (a lot) to find an easy, close access to the beach, Lake Huron. It was a beautiful day!

Patsy, Audrey, Gayle, Cathy, Donna

With a bit of time spent there in that wonderful sand and fresh air, we snapped some selfies and returned to our home for the week. Lovely little place. Smaller than others but quite nice! One bathroom for 5 ladies is tricky but we get along, thank goodness! 😂

The water was warm, hope to
catch a dip one day.

We shared a few gifts, one of which was a puzzle I bought for all of us to put together while here. It got a great laugh and Audrey suggested starting right away. So we dove right in. 

We should be done tomorrow
or Tuesday

At 6:30 my tummy was grumbling for food so we went out in search of a place to eat.

I gave Audrey a 7' frog kite
and of course we'll try it on the beach.
Good for a laugh.

Not many places were open on Sunday, some were just closing at 7, others were full but we found Duffy's Fish and Chips on time (they close their kitchen at 8) and had a great meal. 

My chicken quesadilla was wonderful!

The bedroom Gayle and I share

Monday, being Labour Day, not sure what breakfast options we'll have so a good thing we all had leftovers!

Our back yard is quite nice

Back home, back to the puzzle at which we worked on until bedtime just after 10. A fun first day. Plans for tomorrow have changed so who knows what we'll get in to! 

Looking down the street
to the lake.
Good night!

We reached 24C/75F under a clear blue sky. I had a great day!

Thank you for your visit.