2016 Honey Harbour - painting chairs.

Last week, back at home, I spent some time repainting a wooden chair and painting another one to match. Peggy gave me the chairs years ago and she had painted them too. They are probably more paint than wood now.

Painted in the same colours as my interior walls so they will fit into any room.

The project this year at Greg and Aimee's cottage was to paint the Muskoka chairs.

Starting with the bottoms. Aimee paints so frequently at the cottage that she has a "painting bathingsuit".

We painted them a pretty pale yellow and

Aimee painted a series of dots around the central table and

the arms.

I painted the two small Muskoka chairs, for the grand children.

My initial plan was to paint the fish from Finding Nemo but, while researching cartoon images on the internet, we found pictures of the Minions. I had been feeling a little nervous about trying to get the likeness of Nemo and Dorey onto the chairs and the Minions looked a lot easier. Aimee assured me that all the kids loved them.

I gather Minions are from the Despicable Me movie.

I have never seen it.

Greg insisted that they had to have bums.

The painting took a few days and we were pretty lazy other than that. It was hot and windy and we only pedal boated once. We drank, read, played cards and ate .......
One night we were feeling so hot we didn't want to cook and just wanted something light so we made a grilled cheese sandwich.

One french loaf, cut horizontally into three. Layer smoked cheddar, sliced apple, bacon and a little maple BBQ sauce, on to two layers and top with the third.

Brush all over with butter, wrap in foil and bake on the BBQ. We sliced it for supper and then had the few left over pieces, with eggs, for breakfast.

We had one rainy, cool, windy day so, of course, we baked.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

and date squares.

It was no wonder that by the last day we were feeling fat and bloaty. It was a lovely, calm, sunny day so we pedal boated over to the dock and took a 3km walk.

This little chipmunk was on the road we walked on and he didn't run off until he finished eating what he was holding.

We pedal boated back to the island, had lunch and then kayaked for about 2 hours. Trying to get a weeks worth of exercise in one day.

Perfect pedal boating and kayaking weather.

We kayaked mostly out in the lake but also in the shallow marshy areas around the island.

Lovely white lilies and the yellow ones were just starting to bloom too.

No idea what they are, but they are a gorgeous water plant.

Greg saw both mink and otter, (allegedly!)while sitting quietly at the gazebo, in the morning. The osprey were in and out of the nest frequently, squirrels, raccoons and chipmunks came up onto the deck (we ferried one squirrel over to the mainland) and the heron sat on the railing daily.

Drying his wings.