Roof Over Woubled Waters

Happy SPRING TIME!!! Well, the warm part is sure to come, soon. Promise. Anyone out there know how to make a 'fingers crossed' symbol?

The Boys headed off to The Cottage today to do some more improvements. This time it was a roof extension over 4 of our slips. As things was, the water side of the roof has some nasty rust lines on it, which, if our boats hang out too far, transfer themselves onto the swim platform, etc.. So, the 2' we added today will alleviate that concern.

Here we are, hard at it. Or, ah, Von Brauweiller appears to be hard at something else. Remind you of this years' FFF?

If I Had Money

If I had money;
I tell you what I'd do;
I' go downtown;
And buy a Mercury or two;
I'm gonna (did) buy me a Mercury & cruise Anchor Girl up and down the road . . .




What can I say? I needed another camera platform :-)

The Good Old Days - These Are Those Days!

The last weekend at the Port of Orillia for 2007. Sounds so final, eh? Well, in case you haven't noticed, I am acutely aware of how fast time flies for all of us and one of my main inspirations for this whole web site thing is to try to get that message across to everyone.

Let's make the most of it folks! Before we know it, we're looking back on 'the good old days'. Guess what? These are the good old days!

 Again, Anchor Girl & I are sooooooooooooooooo looking forward to the upcoming season on the water!!! Actually, I'm hoping the relaunch clock slows down for a bit, as I'm wrapping up a number of pre-launch projects. Amongst them is replacing the the lower unit on one of my out drives (heading to Orillia this weekend to pick up the replacement - thanks for heads up on that one, Commander), bottom painting, building a roof extension at the front of three slips (before the ice goes out) at the cottage & finishing the brackets I'm fabricating for our new deck. Phew, I'm gonna really enjoy some hang time once the boat gets back in the water. . . And the new cottage deck is finished. . . And the inverter & vhf radio are installed. . . And the carpet is redone in Boogaboo's cabin. . . And the carpet, electrical receptacle & lights are installed on the dock. . . And the new opening is built behind our slip.

 Hmmmmm, what am I forgetting?? Fear not, A. G. is sure to think of something . . . Oh well, it's all good.

Fenelon Falls Lock

 Speaking of Fenelon Falls, this coming Canada Day lands on a Tuesday this year, so A. G. & I are gonna be taking the Monday off as well and making it a 4 day long weekend.

With all this time to take advantage of, we are planing to do a mini trip to Fenelon Falls for that weekend. The working itinerary is to head to the bottom of Kirkfield Liftlock on Friday (3-4 hours from home) & spend the night there. Saturday we would continue on to Fenelon Falls Marina (2 hours travel time) & spend Saturday & Sunday nights there. Monday, we'd head back homeward & stay the night at one of the locks before Lake Simcoe & head home on Tuesday.

As well, you don't have to worry about going through the lock, as the marina is before the lock, right on Cameron Lake.

Here's some pics of the anticipated spots to whet your whistle;

View from F.F. Marina

Kirkfield Liftlock, bottom sideAnother view of the bottom side of Kirkfield

Finally, a look at Lock #39.
A very pretty spot!!!