Closing the Cottage

Windy, cold and cloudy until the day we left. That was very typical of the cottage season this year. My favourite part, sitting on the swing reading a book and looking at the lake. Least favourite black flies. No explanation needed. This weekend Kevin helped with pulling up the dock. It was nice to have the extra person to get this done. We tried a bit of tarring of the second cabins roof edge but it was so windy we couldn't get much done. In fact the thin tar left a splatter of drops all over my face. I thought I had got dirt or dust in my eye when in fact there was tar on my eyelid. Dad scrambled to get the boat before it floated away. The boat kept getting hit by waves and by the morning it was swamped. I'm hoping that I will be able to get up one more time in November and just savour the weekend.

Things that happen at the cottage

I talked to a person who has a home on the lake where our cottage is and we chatted about things we liked about being up north. One of the things was making toast on the stove. It's better than a toaster, just tastes better. I decided to show a picture of my stove toaster. All was going well, I balanced the camera while posing the bread. Just by my fingers is the ring that closes the toaster. It should be right up against the base of toaster. It's not. The next picture would have shown one slice on the floor except I was too busy swearing.

Fixing the roof made all the ladders multiply. They had to do it because to make me feel safe. I needed this safety in numbers while balancing on small bars of metal or wood. Nothing less would do.

Finally, there was a pillow that Dad hung up on the clothes line. We kind of forgot about it for a week or so. Rediscovering it this weekend there is an interesting couple of stains on it. No religious figures more like a mouse? warthog? frog? with a lady in a large dress. You decide

Energy sucking Work or Relaxing Cottage

Sometimes you plod through the day working on each little project or problem and at the end of the day your tired but you've accomplished something. Other times you do the exact same thing and each project or problem leads into a new set of things that must get done somewhat immediately. Today was a mixture of both. I got work done but it didn't lessen the pile of work at all. When I got home all I wanted to do is sleep. There is one person that even when they are not at work they are draining my life force. It isn't that I dread dealing with this person it is just so tiring. Yes, there is a bit of burnout, yes there is the rut of dealing with the same problems. Solutions ... winning the lotto would help.

The Meeting

Imagine back to back meetings where you have only a small part in and you are working on your laptop and it's a Friday and you only had a cup of tea in the morning. Both meetings were interesting and I followed each without a problem, it was the project I was working on during the meeting. At one point I stared at the screen just thinking how I would work out the database. I must have had the blank chicken stare going on for quite a while, I wasn't listening to the meeting and there was the horrible moment that I could have drooled, had my mouth hanging and I wouldn't have noticed. Deep, Deep in thought ... or looking like a sleep deprived fool.