Finally, a quiet weekend in Barry's Bay

A quiet weekend was the plan after a month of weekend travel. Nic had a friend over Friday night and then went to Chris's place for Saturday night. I was invited for my first fishing expedition to the local lake by Adam from next door. We went bass hunting and Adam was successful with 5 fish before I managed to pull one in. With the sun going down over the lake, the bullfrogs croaking and the lonely loons calling mournfully at dusk it was a very memorable Canadian evening.

Saturday morning Ella was off to a friend's place while Nic, Chris, Jordie & I went to the Combermere markets before going the back way to Chris's place. We later joined them for a barbeque at their cottage on the lake. This was followed by several canoe trips on the lake. We took a couple of rods in our canoe and I managed to land my second bass for the weekend. We followed this up with a bonfire, marshmallows, spiderdogs and another Canadian campfire delicasy; S'mores.
http://www.canadianparents.com/recipe/campfire-smores

The kids went off to catch fireflies and we set off a few fireworks. We'd been here in the winter, ice fished, rode skidoos and four wheelers on the ice and had races down the road on toboggans. It was a remarkable transformation.

Sunday was planned to be a little quieter. I utilised my 'other special talent' and prepared frozen mango, strawberry and mixed berry daiquaris to share at our end of year staff party on the lake on Wednesday. We then collected Nic in the afternoon and went to the Shulist farm in Combermere. (Halinka is the Grade 3/4 teacher at school). The kids had a ball. They helped release speckled trout into the pond, played on the swings and trampoline and went to see the cows, pigs and chicks. I got to talk to a Canadian bloke who was into playing with rocks even more than myself. Paul built a beautiful house and had plenty left over for stock fencing and general landscaping. The farm was surrounded by lush green fields (we've had 3 dry days so far in June) and beautiful mountain vistas. If it wasn't for the Canadian black flies (and mozzies and deer flies and so on) I could easily settle in here.... until winter set in at least.
With a 'quiet' weekend such as this one it's no wonder people come from miles away to spend their weekends here.

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