Vacation Projects At Rockledge Cottage...

This is my first week of 3 weeks of vacation.  I'll be here for the first 2 weeks straight.  Abby came with me.... She loves it here too.  Marc will have to work most of the time but at least we're all together...

Its only Wednesday and I sure have been busy....in the garden planting some new flowers in the 91F degree weather...whew...

A new hibiscus that opened up the next day....

a what will be rose hibiscus in bright red sitting by the grill...

 and some daylillies which it appears I didn't take pictures of...  The place we buy our flowers is having a sale and all perennials including peonies, designer daylilies and hibiscus are all marked down to $7.00!  I HAD to take advantage...

We've had changes to the outside of the cottage...the door and windows at the right corner have been replaced from what you see here....

siding was removed temporarily from the front and windows were taken out...nothing but empty holes on this beautiful day....

then off came the door to the deck....

and voila new sliding door and windows...

Siding is back on and we love the sliding door. 

There are many windows in the livingroom and it makes such a big difference to have even more light come in...and easy access to the deck.

and a great view of the big lake....Lake Ontario...

Now this is what we see into the kitchen....I have been busy working in there today.  I'll show you later when I'm done.  Vacations are great times to pick up and do projects....

next week I'm having a vacation on my vacation....I think unless something else comes to mind...

Have a wonderful week.... Judi xoxo

Forgot the Thingy and Can't Show You Anything...

Man!  Am I ever mad at ME!  Really and truly mad at me.

I left the cord to transfer pictures from my camera into computer....AT THE COTTAGE! *sigh*.  I could just spit!

I KNEW when I pulled it out of my computer bag this morning to tuck my computer in to take it home...that I would do that.  And I did. 

We had such a lovely weekend.  Marc and I planted around the newly made beds around the deck and I wanted to show you.
So now I can only "speak" to you not show you anything.  After buying the plants and working outside most of the afternoon we were treated for Father's Day dinner by Janet, Marc's daughter.  She took us and her hubby, Ryan and his mom and step-dad and of course the little ones, Jack and Reed.  We sat outdoors at a nice restaurant beside a canal.  We watched the boats going by and the children loved waving to them.  They fed the ducks and geese that swam by.  It was simply lovely!

On Sunday Ryan took Marc golfing.  While they were playing 9 holes I worked again in the garden.  I surprised him with another flower garden that I dug up and planted in his absence.  There is a spot right beside the door to the kitchen that doesn't catch much sun.  The grass doesn't grow very well against the wall so I planted shade plants/flowers.  He liked it!

I'll show you pics next week.  Then you'll see what we've been doing outside.  It was such a nice weekend.  It was a bit warm at times but mostly more humid so we probably lost some weight between all the working out we did and what we sweated!  *crossing my fingers*.

I can show you this lovely bag with a little note on it....into which I temporarily slipped some lavender flowers from the garden a couple of weeks ago.  I can show you this picture but I'll share the story that goes along with it in another post.  Its fun.
Again, I did not want to come home.  :o(  I was there all day Saturday and Sunday and left this morning and had a 1/2 work day.  Yay! 

Did you have a good weekend?  What did you do?

Hope you've had a good day today too...& you took pictures & were able to transfer them...

Judi xoxo

Happy Memorial Day....A Cottage Weekend...

****There are only a couple of days left before my Decorated Sugar Cookies GIVEAWAY....Take a look at my post on May 20th.  Visit my Etsy Shop and come back and tell me what your favourite cookies are..  The Draw will be this Wednesday.  Good Luck!!

                      Happy Memorial Day to all my American Friends....
We had a restful weekend at the cottage this weekend but we managed to work around the cottage and I did some planting.

I planted containers on the deck...

Our  new hydrangea was like this last weekend

 but look at it one week later.

The herbs were planted in the wheelbarrow.

This is the 2nd summer for this hydrangea and I was so excited to see how nicely it has grown and it has flowers!

The shop window box is planted....

but I forgot to take pictures of the flower garden around the shop.   The wind chime is once again hung in its usual place by the deck....

This is the new hanging plant by the front door....

and isn't this a lovely display of hanging flowers next door at Bob and Georgias?

Although the weather wasn't as warm as they said it was going to be (except for today) it was great for some people who braved the coolness and the cold waters to jet ski and travel on their flat boat.

Marc made spaghetti....

and bread.....

and it was lovely.  I didn't want to leave this morning.  But I'm back and baking an order of decorated sugar cookies for a baby shower.

I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.... Judi xoxo