Going to the Cottage

This weekend last, we played the adult version of Going To The Cottage. Friday morning we loaded up Big Red including lounge space for Sadie, and headed up to the Bruce Peninsula to stay with the Lutomski's as well as meet up with the Theurigs. The nominal excuse was to set a time and agenda for our 2013 trip to Hawaii. The three families will meet in Honolulu and then onto Maui for some of us. Leah, be quick, we are headed to Sydney afterwards to further explore Australia.

Anyways, Kathy, Sadie & I traveled the Huron Road Highway with the warning from the bank teller that there just had been a big snow, the area dumped on, the roads were icy and snow covered. Big Red being made for such weather we trekked on, the only skid was on the Whiskey Harbour Road at a sharp left, the Jeep's antiskid system kept us 1 1/4 inches from a minor precipice and we made Devil's Glen Road without further incident.

Observe the road into the cottage, boat house to the right.

The winter sky reaches the open water past the ice encrusted Little Pike Bay. The wind blows flurries of snow, squalls appear near and far. The ice is broken into small pieces with pools of water mixed with chunks of ice. Dangerous as some ice is piled upon the shore and blends with the bobbing and heaving mass some distance away. Alluring yet slippery footing. We kept close watch of the dogs.

Here are Bill, Clara & Kathy posing for a snowy picture of the cottage in its best view. Around the back is a 2 foot deep trench through the rock for the waterline from the new well to the pump house. The rock excavated from the trench is piled high. The area to the West of the cottage, behind the fireplace chimney, the area we had cleared and spread the mulch last summer, has not changed, yet. The area will be the new leach bed for the new septic system which will allow us to install a dish-washer, much to Kathy's liking. I wonder if Great-Grandma Vencl's dishes are dishwasher safe? I doubt it as some are now almost a century old. They will probably crack and craze and loose their luster. I guess that is the price of progress up here in the bush country.

I talked to Connie Collins this morning and she said that the Township is very close to accepting Bill Tyler's development plan: The Shores of the Bruce Peninsula.