We wake up Wednesday, June 7th
to beautiful, gorgeous, brilliant, sunshine! I was dreaming again and it was
one of those reoccurring ones. I always seem to dream about getting lost
(direction-wise) or getting left somewhere not able to reach Bill. My deep-rooted
fear perhaps?
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| Last night at The Ridge |
I was up at 7:15 and opened all the
blinds in the Suite. By the time I poured my tea, Clemson was up and went out
for his morning business. Realizing how warm the sun was, even though it was
only 10C in the shade, I turned the inverter on. I unplugged from electric and
turned the portable panel to face east.
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| Clemson's get away gate |
Bill slept until 8:30, my night owl,
and was pleased to see the blue sky when he got up. As I finished reading blog
posts I decided to try and learn a bit more about my camera. My sister, Audrey,
tries to feed me valuable information. She refers me to various websites but it
is still a lot of ‘tekky/camera’ speak and I’m lost before getting too far.
Depth of field, I get and now found
the button, and ISO I know how to change, however changing the f-stop while in
AV mode is beyond me. I’m still willing but unless it sinks in this brain, it
is useless to me when outside taking pictures. LOL I don’t know how you camera
guys do it.
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| Pretty little yellow flowers |
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| Our pond weeds are almost reaching the surface |
So, Bill finished his coffee and I
pulled the plug on the gray water tank. It was full and needed to be drained
before my shower. Our fresh water tank is below 50% so my sweetie is going to
fill the bladder this morning. He will fill the small propane tank today so I
can barbecue also while he is away. With the weather turning nice, I’m sure I’ll
be doing that.
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| Full barbecue tank |
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| Filling our fresh water tank |
He wants to make sure I have
everything I need before he departs for a couple of days. My hero. I remember
when we lived at the house in London, for the first few years I dreaded using
the barbecue. I don’t know why, it was just always ‘Bill’s job”. Maybe I
thought it would blow up or something. Who knows? I’m happy to know how and to be comfortable
with our Weber Q.
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I've mentioned our corral a number of times
This is a view of it from the top
No horses, though |
With all these jobs done, Bill hopped
in the shower. Clemson and I walked down the lane to mail a letter. He needed
to stretch his long legs before we left him alone for 7 hours. We have backups
in case something were to happen, we know people who don’t live too far away
who would come and get him.
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| This bumble bee was loving my geraniums |
We left the Suite after a light breakfast
and although the gps took us a different way than we’d originally thought, we
arrived in Stoney Creek at the Funeral Home at 2:30. We travelled Hwy 10 for
the most part until catching the 410, then the QEW and so on. We knew we’d come
home a different way.
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| Through Priceville, then Flesherton |
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| Pretty town of Shelburne |
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| Some plates make me chuckle |
It was a nice little reunion for Bill
and I, seeing many of his cousins and Aunt Ruthie. These are all relations on
his Mom’s side of the family. So, Glen, Gary, Greg, Uncle Ray’s sons. Cheryl,
Maryann, Heather, Donna Marie, Colleen. Gary’s son, Raymond and Constance. I
think I’ve mentioned everyone we knew. We were sad to have just missed Peter and Kelly. Darn!
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| Orangeville |
After the afternoon visitation ended,
we were invited back to Uncle Ray’s house where Glen lives for a drink and
something to eat before heading home. This was really nice, we were both hungry
and the food was delicious. Thank you, Cheryl and MaryAnn.
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| These are awesome skyscrapers! 25 - 30 stories high |
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| The Burlington Skyway |
We left the house on Pottruff Rd. and
took Queenston to the QEW. We couldn’t believe the traffic coming from the
other direction! We were very glad to be heading north.
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| The QEW was packed coming the other way |
We crossed over the
Burlington skyway and I captured a few pictures of Lake Ontario and even the CN
Tower off in the distant haze.
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| A little intimidating! |
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| Beautiful wild flowers |
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| Fergus |
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| Newest Arthur water tower |
When we saw the traffic advisory that
there was a slow down AFTER Guelph Line, we were grateful to be turning off
ONTO Guelph Line. This would take us home the route we wanted which included
Hwy 6 through Fergus, Arthur, Varney and Durham.
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| Donald Brown Funeral Home |
This was an absolutely gorgeous day
and we enjoyed the blue skies and sunshine even though we were in a vehicle for
most of it. We’re glad we took the time to go to the visitation since Uncle Ray
did not wish to have a funeral. It was a nice quiet celebration with his
closest family members.
We arrived home at 7:10, a much
shorter time period than our drive out.
Coming up the drive we noticed not one,
not two but three female turtles off to the side digging nest holes. My
goodness, we are overrun! I love it.
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| One, two |
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| Three, all in a row |
Then when we got to our gravel parking
site, one special greeter sitting there waiting for us. As we looked each other
in the eye, I snapped this picture.
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| He/she is so cute!! |
We didn’t need supper tonight since
we ate just after 4 but Bill barbecued up 4 burgers. He will take two for his
supper tomorrow night and leave two for me for Thursday and Friday night
supper. We set about packing the rest of his stuff up so he will be able to
leave for London by 6 am.
I hope you have had a great day. I
have included last night’s stunning sunset at the beginning of my post as well as tonight’s gorgeous
display below.
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| An early shot of tonight's portrait |
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| And The Ridge says goodnight |
Thank you for reading along. Your
comments are always welcome.
