Forest

Worry

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Laura

I have heard from friends near Tiny House Ontario that it still has not rained a drop.  The Weather Network calls for rain on Thursday but they have not been right yet when calling for rain.  They said that there would be rain there today, for example.

I am afraid that my garden looks like this (or worse):

I am even more afraid that worried that the trees are still falling and I hope that THO is safe there alone in the drought.

I won’t get back there for a few more days to water, I have no idea what to expect when I return there on Sunday.

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Reading Outside

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Laura

Over the last weeks of heat wave, I wished I could lay down outside to read when it was simply too hot to do anything else.

I mentioned this to my husband and magically he had a solution.  A zero gravity chair.  $50 (at Canadian Tire) I believe, he said.

Thank you!  I love it!

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Garden Watered and Fooding

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Laura

My husband and I carried in 100 litres of water from our neighbour’s house today.  Thankfully they are good to us and our garden.  I hope I can produce enough that I can bring some stuff up to them!

Finally we saw a tiny bit of benefit to all this water carrying.  We picked to make a little pasta sauce.  A few good sized tomatoes, a green pepper, lots of basil and flat parsley.  I added salt, oil, garlic, gnocchi and a good beer (my favourite kind) on the side.

Since we returned with all this to Hamilton from THO, it is not really a zero mile diet, not even close but the sauce was great and so too was the cold beer!

I will be in Hamilton until Sunday so I will catch up on my posts I hope!

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The Force of Nature!

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Laura

My husband and I were sitting in the cloth porch this afternoon.  We were discussing plans for the next week because he is away on business and I had to return to Hamilton for the week because there is a list of things that need doing here.  Suddenly there was a HUGE explosive noise that happened not too far away from the house.  I could tell that it was within the property that belongs to us, just South East of Tiny House Ontario.

My husband is not a rural born person and he was puzzled, but I knew right away that we were losing some HUGE trees to the drought.

We walked back through the land.  All of the forest small plants are dead, small trees too are failing.  We found the big tree that we thought had come down but then we saw that not only was one down but quite a few came down.  We lost a lot in last year’s tornado but now one of the biggest trees on the property lost a huge part and there are about 8 more trees that have come down.  We did not stay too long back at the ridge, there was still a lot of noise coming from the trees and I certainly do not want to be under one of those if they fall!

Can you see the tree spirits in the images?

My God!  We need rain.

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Friends!

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Laura

Andre who I re-met again on Facebook a few years ago came to visit Tiny House Ontario last night.  I have not seen him face to face for about 30 years now.  We had been planning on him coming for some time because he is a talented amateur videographer and photographer and he thinks that THO will make for some interesting shots.  Last night, his visit was to “size” it up.  ;-P  He brought his daughter Chantelle and his grandson Andrew out with him.  Andrew reminds me a lot of his beautiful Aunt Cindy, so he will be a stunning grown man in a few years.  Little Andrew played music for us on the stainless steel pot that I gave him.  I bet he is the next Tommy Lee, but perhaps not so Motley.

Just at dusk my childhood BFF Lesley treated me to a pop in and brought her husband Clarence over as well.  YEAH!  We chatted into the night on the cloth porch.  She is just as sweet today as she was as a little girl and her husband too is a smashing great guy!

I am sure I have mentioned that I LOVE to have visitors.  Particularly when they come by in the evenings.  At Tiny House Ontario, where there is no disturbance in the nature of things I can’t help but reflect.  To say that I am fortunate to have the friends that I have is not enough.  I am charmed in this way.

Blessed be, all of you.

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