"Touch The Sky"

Out the computer room window we can see the night sky. A few nights ago it was so pretty.

We went for our walk this morning under a clear, star-filled sky. An hour later the clouds started to creep in. This is looking out over Lake Ontario. We are supposed to get some rain starting this afternoon.

If you recall I mentioned in my last post this past weekend was AppleFest. We had a great time. Janice and I went to the street fair in the morning leaving Chuck at home to paint one of the bathrooms. I don't think he was unhappy not going! The street fair was packed. I couldn't take any photos. After lunch we all headed over to the car show. So many great cars. This" Dukes of Hazzard" replica car was signed under the hood by the gentleman who portrayed "Cooter".

Chuck checking out this old beast. I guess it is popular now to have the bodies of the old cars to look like they were just pulled out of a barn or field. We saw a number of cars that looked like this.

A local D.J. did a show from the car show. We do listen to his daily show so we went up and introduced ourselves. We chatted for a few minutes and as we were leaving he handed us a gift certificate for a nice restaurant. Janice and I will do a girl's lunch with it one day soon.

Janice and Chuck peeking inside this fantastic car. We had absolutely perfect weather on Saturday. Sunny and a little cool.

Sunday Chuck and I walked up to one of the local museums. Somebody (me) thought they were open for tours but I was wrong. It is a home preserved and furnished as it would have been when it was built.  The 1850's I think! Chuck is looking out over part of the original farm which is now a conservation area. On the right is a barn where many times a year plays are performed.

This is the house from the front. It sits high up on a hill. If you looked out the windows at the top of the house you could see Lake Ontario.

This is the road leading away from the house. So pretty. I want to go back in a few weeks when the leaves are changing and take a walk down it.

I assume this is a bathtub. It must have been quite a job filling and emptying it in the old days!

Sweet Pea enjoying one of his snacks. According to a neighbour he is owned by someone. He just enjoys visiting. I still don't know his real name.

Here is a bit better photo of one of the other cats that visits. I keep a bowl of water out on the deck for critters to drink out of and I have seen this cat there quite often.

The only problem with having so many cats around is it means we don't get many birds. I do miss the birds but hopefully as the weather turns cooler the birds will come back to the feeders.

We are continuing to clean out our gardens. Sunday afternoon we were trying to yank out three bushes from one of the side gardens. It took us around forty minutes to dig one out. Just as we were starting on the second one an elderly gentleman pulled up in his minivan. He hopped out and asked us if we needed a hand. He was on his way to help his son, who lives around the corner, pull out some trees. He hooked up a rope to his trailer hitch and pulled both bushes out in ten minutes. He then offered to take them away as he was going to the dump afterwards. How kind! Our gardening neighbour has set aside a number of plants from his garden for me and is anxious to get them planted in our garden. Goodness, people have been so kind to us since we moved here.

We had a wonderful weekend and we have a visit from Kim to look forward to shortly. Can't wait!

Have a good week everyone.
Take care.
Robin