Labour day has passed and with it comes the (almost) end of another great season of cottaging. I say almost as there's still a couple of weekends left to go up for close up etc (and maybe a weekend of winter cottaging) but after labour day it's a very different (and equally as fun) experience up north.

Erin, Oliver and I didn't get up as much as we would have liked to this year (of course anything less then moving up Victoria Day and coming back at Thanksgiving would qualify as "not getting up often enough") but while we were up there it was a ton of fun. We were worried at first that this year would be nothing but chaos as we chased a now-mobile Oliver around the property but it turned out to actually be a little easier this year rather than last.

One great help was the new deck across the front of the cottage - we had it for the end of last season but Oliver didn't start walking until Labour Day weeked '05. This year he had a good 50 feet of "fenced in" deck to run free on, so Erin and I could sit out there with him and but not have to be always on top of him.

As the previous post indicates it was also a bit of an exciting year as well. Right before the August long weekend our chain of lakes was hit by a pair of tornados (F0 & an F1). Thankfully no one was injured, power was down for only a few days and the community rallied together to get everything cleaned up.

An extra little bit of excitement came as Jim finished the pine ceilings in all of the bedrooms! Needless to say everyone is glad to have the pink insulation and plastic sheets covered up. The ceilings look great and Erin and I both look forward to waking up to them each morning.

The slideshow below is of all the photos from the 2006 season:



All the photos can also be seen here.

This entry was posted by Ryan, on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.