Ya Gotta Laugh About It

Our girl embracing an autumn adventure. TAKEN: OCTOBER 17th, 2025 After our epic day of burning on Saturday September 27th, we spent the nex...

What a beautiful view! TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 27th, 2025 Just like the movie Groundhog Day, we landed at the cottage Friday night to wake and expe...

Wee Katie Kate supervising the disconnection in progress. TAKEN: JULY 1ST, 2025 The weekend before my mother-in-law unexpectedly passed, my ...

Miya Maria (left) and Katie Kate (right). Soaking up the super fun Stella vibes. TAKEN: AUGUST 9th, 2025 With us having to unexpectedly canc...

My sister soaking up the sun! TAKEN: AUGUST 4th, 2025 Summer was chugging along nicely and it was time for my sister to travel to us and spe...

The worse part about using a chainsaw in a heat wave? Steel toe boots & long denim pants! TAKEN: JULY 13th, 2025 I would love to be able...

Happy Canada Day! TAKEN: JULY 1st, 2025 I would be remiss if I didn’t put up my annual dog shot of the pups at the cottage on Canada Day.  T...

Katie Kate is the epitome of a great team player! TAKEN: JUNE 28th, 2025  What a week.  I was so grateful when end of day Friday of the Cana...

The first of many controlled brush burns. TAKEN: JUNE 21st, 2025 Well, we moved into the cottage this weekend. We moved in with a well thoug...

  As we took our third stab at cottage clean up this past weekend, our focus was on the immediate beach front. Our challenge wasn’t only t...

After yesterday, everything aches! TAKEN: MAY 31st, 2025 Well, we were back at it yesterday, with our dueling chainsaw in action at the cott...

The only good thing to report? We've opened up our view! TAKEN: MAY 17th, 2025 When the ice storm of the century hit Muskoka the final w...

  The older I get.... It seems quiet is what I seek most. TAKEN: JULY 23rd, 2022 (Me, floating around Orillia Lake) I'm not quite sure w...

Stella, who?  Can't you see the yellow football?  ...We had a great day!! TAKEN: OCTOBER 5th, 2024 Well, with the weather on our side, w...

My smiling sister embracing cottage life whilst enjoying a drink with our dad. TAKEN: AUGUST 9th,   I'll start with the fact that she...

As you’ve read here many times before, music is a big part of who I am. Numbers and analysis may be how I earn a living, but everything musi...

As the year comes to a close at midnight tonight, there is so much I am very thankful for. So much so, that I have no idea where to start.  ...

Seems I have everyone in the house looking for a great deal. Thanks for your help #OreoGang! TAKEN: NOVEMBER 26th, 2023 Several years ago, w...

Well, we unexpectedly bought another boat.  It will be our fourth motorized vessel in the twenty plus years we have owned Orillia Lake. It w...

The Oreo Gang making sure my husband is disconnecting the water intake properly. (Miya Maria on the rock, Katie Lulu on the step, and Annie ...