Dec 30, 2020
It is so incredibly beautiful up here at the cottage, that I thought I would just write and tell you about our Christmas and what we have been doing. The trees as I look outside are white. It is more beautiful than a Christmas card. Every branch is covered with...
Sep 7, 2020
From Sue Brown This is one of the best emails I’ve read in a while: no politics, no sex, and no “axes to grind,” just food for thought! I FIRST STARTED READING THIS EMAIL & WAS READING FAST, UNTIL I REACHED THE THIRD SENTENCE. I STOPPED AND STARTED OVER READING...
Aug 30, 2020
By George Biondic I’m taking advantage of the pandemic to write a memoir. This is a segment from it. Pozega, Croatia October, 1959 There wasn’t much time, so Luka (a poor, seven-year-old boy) had to act quickly. He was supposed be go straight home after school,...
Aug 28, 2020
From Erlinda Biondic My husband and I walk around our neighbourhood mornings and evenings. Now with the pandemic, we get out sometimes three times a day. We have our routes. In the morning we go West and in the evening East. Since the sun is at our back in the...
Aug 18, 2020
By Heather Trusler I first summered as a toddler on Georgian Bay at a little place called Go Home Bay in 1953 and have summered here ever since. My husband arrived up at 3 1/2 months and has spent every summer here as well, but, as he was 5 years older than me, we...
Aug 10, 2020
By Heather Trusler 47 years ago, when we started to build our cottage here on Georgian Bay, we chose to keep a yearling pine and let it grow. When we built a bigger deck in 2002, we incorporated the growing tree right into the plan, creating a large hole through the...
