Ten Thousand Words

Don't be frightened, it's not REALLY ten thousand words. Just doing the math on ten pictures, each being allegedly worth a thousand words....ipso ergo sum. Some pics from our recent week-long excursion to eastern Ontario....there, and back again!

1,2 - Birdhouse City in Picton. Yes. Exactly as it sounds.

3,4 - got roped into helping a neighbour of the family farm in Prince Edward County into unloading four wagons of square hay bales. Oh that takes me back. Or hurts my back. Can't remember which.

5,6 - homemade BBQ at The Farm with my Uncle. Patent Pending.

7,8 - A few days of relaxation back at The Cabin in the Ottawa Valley.

9 - arrived home to a new metal roof! Now we just have to paint to match. Or turn the house into a Pizza Hut, which is I think Jane's fiendish plan.

10 - the nest of baby swallows spilleth over! Got home just in time, by the next day they had flown the coop.

Add in these little helpful comments, and you're actually looking at almost 10,200 words!!! Go, you voracious reader, you! Your literary rapacity knows no satiety.


 

June Miscellany, Part Deux

OK, for those of you that already saw this post in it's initial and very flawed state (Hi Val!), I have apparently resolved the wonky photo issue by deleting and re-posting. And now, without further ado....June Miscellany, Part Deux!

Some random pics for your own particular amusement. The first pic is taken from roughly the same vantage as a shot from May 2007 from before we bought the place, feel free to look back in the blog archives and see the difference five years makes! Some other random shots on a lazy hazy June weekend - our neighbours, the best attended (Old Colony Mennonite) church in existence; homemade draft beer in cool wooden mugs; cats enjoying the out of doors; baby Swallow's first meal request....and of course cat making meal request trying to get at baby Swallow.