"But, if you never take time, how can you ever have time."

After an insanely busy week at work,l it was nice to be able to unwind over the weekend. A weekend that started off with a great BBQ at Dave & Elaine's. Ordinarily, I don't feel comfortable at large get togethers, but I really felt at home that night. Thanks for putting on the dinner - I think it meant a lot.

It was fun and if it weren't for the work being done at the cottage, we would have stayed later. Great times - we really have to try and do some things like that again. Even on a small scale.

Saturday was spent poking away at whatever was needed. I wasn't intending to do any serious work, but I started on a little garden shed and I guess I got right into it. Oh, by the way, pounding nails into dried 2x6 hemlock might be a great work out for the arm, but not so much for the hardware. There were a handful of nails that bent rather than be hammered in (3" galvanized at that) and I broke the head off the hammer I was using. So I opted for my 3lb sledge to finish the job so there were less.....disagreements. Take a look at what the shed was sitting in - maybe it was originally meant to be an ark.

My friend Darryl was up to put the finishing touches on the power to the shed (got a whole new panel in there now) and no more power problems in the cottage itself. Ahhhhhhhh.

Satruday night was a hoot - we had a lot of fun and stayed up a long time. Deb had a great idea to put a bargain chandelier in the gazebo (just a plain matte black 5 arm single bulb thingy) but does it ever do the trick. We must have been out there for hours and I whipped up a few improvised drinks over the course of the evening. I really got stock up for the holidays.

So, now we are looking at our dwindling summer weekends and wondering how much we can squeeze out of them. It seems that there is never enough time to do the important stuff, work always gets in the way.

Finally back on -

I was going to rant about my battles with technology (having to fix our home network and the ERP launch at work) but instead, I'll move on to more important things.

Onyx (our newly adopted cat) is fitting in quite well. It looks like Stitches (our "fraidy" cat) is warming up to him. Jezebel is another story.....(there's a reason she earned that name). They'll get it sorted out - they eat together, sleep in the same room....there may be the odd slap-fight, but nothing serious.

The canoe gets a tour on the lake for the first time this year, this weekend. Because, for the first time this year - I won't be doing any construction. YAY for ME.

We are getting a new electrical panel put in at the cottage. Sort of got tired of using the old one as a secondary heat source.

The big launch to the weekend is a bbq with the gang on Friday - looking forward to that.

Resetting....

Yesterday's sevice for Wendy was nice.

After a week of running on auto-pilot trying to grasp that one of "our gang" was gone it felt good to be part of the huge number of people that came out to pay their respects. Being able to share stories was great, being able to re-connect with old friends was even better.

Wendy had so many varied interests, she was able to open channels for people who might not have connected, otherwise. Putting the odd small comment on a pic or a post just to let you know she was there turns out to have been a big deal for me now.

I go through a lot of blogs my friends have as links, but rarely post anything. That needs to change.

So - I think I am going to try getting serious about updating this blog, making sure all my contact info is up to date in my email and phone. And I am going to try and use the internet as well as Wendy did.....she pretty much set the bar.