IN CLOSING MODE

This week has been cool and mostly sunny.  There is an orangeness to the sun as it slants across the deck in the  evening.  The soy has changed to a golden colour and the fields glow.  

Quite a lot of finishing up of things has been done here.  Only the roof canvas of the gazebo remains on the deck.  Removeable cushions are stacked just in case it gets warm enough to sit out there, which really means when the wind is not whipping up the hill from the lake.  So far only the dock, bathed in sunlight, provides a comfortable sit even with the wind.  The cupboards are bare now and the remaining dry goods are boxed ready to transport back to Sarnia.  

Yesterday, we went into Brockville to do our last laundry at a laundromat [we think], to do some shopping for items for our cruise and to purchase a turkey and all that goes with it for our Saturday pre Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving dinner.  Out on Oak Leaf road, we came to a stop to allow a dozen or so wild birds to cross the road.  There were three young ones and a very worried mother.  As they crossed over, she turned and ran back in front of us again and a gobble of birds scurried up over the side of the road from the tall grass and they all ran to the other side. It seemed they were gone, but more birds began rising from the grass and they too crossed the road.  Could it be that the worried bird was the mother of them all.  She ran back and forth across the road after all the others were safely hidden in the grass on the other side and then finally she joined them and we moved on.  

No turkeys in the Super Centre!  None!  Not even frozen.  I'm told they will be in on Monday.    No gourds or squash either, but I did get some small pumpkins for a centrepiece and will collect some leaves, pine cones, later.  

I shopped at a strip mall across from the Super Centre/Walmart complexes, and found everything I wanted right there.  When I commented to the clerk at Reitmans that this was a great mall, she was excited to tell me that Michaels will open soon as well.  

The sky here is a canvas.
Don't be fooled, the horizon
here is straight despite its appearance
in this photo.

We drove to town with the intent of taking County Rd 5 the Temperance Lake Road and across to the highway to Brockville, but missed the turn and so drove on to Lake Road.  Ah, we came to another road [Seely] and one of us wanted to turn right, while the other wanted to turn left.  We pulled out the GPS and Larry was right, turning left was what we needed to do.  We passed through the village of Lyn where our grandsons have had ball tournaments in the past, where I visited an old acquaintance with my Australian cousin when she visited here a few years back and where my parents had lived in their last years.  The house has changed.  There is an addition on the back and it may be painted a different colour.  I have an emotional attachment to this place as it is where my mother died so long ago in 1983.  My dad, the next year.
This village is the home of Burnbrae Farm, egg producers.

We warmed the cottage with a fire at night.

Today:  Friday Sept 16th:    4 degrees celsius   We live in a refrigerator!

Logs are burning in the stove and we are wearing lots of clothes.  Hurricane Maria is heading down the same route we will take in a few more days!  

Turns out the hurricane, Maria,  was not as bad as people feared though I am sure not too pleasant.  We had a rib dinner at Suze's  for Larry's birthday and followed that by another smuck-the-girls game of euchre.

Another fire in the woodstove required when we returned to the cottage.