Bambi came by for a visit!

Geraldine has a boyfriend

Gerry and Jerry!

We were in the house, with the screen door open, and I distinctly heard a bullfrog croak. Twice.  Now, the females don't, and we know Geraldine (formerly known as Jeremiah) is a female. You can tell by the size of the ear drum, which is a lot larger in males. Outside I went. Sure enough, we now have a Jeremiah.

This morning they are sitting side by each.

The honeymoon is over, though, as Geraldine sits in one end of the pond and Jeremiah the other!

I caught him, wanting to see him up close. 

As I watched the day before, he went after a leopard frog, the little cannibal. The leopard frog made it onto a log. (Surely, I can write a poem or a song with all this?!) It's a frog eat frog world out there!


Geraldine spends her days in the garden, waiting for bugs and leopard frogs, who haunt the dewy grasses. With our cooler nights (15C. last night) she spends the night in the pond, the days in the garden.

Geraldine

The goldfish pond

Trip to Prince Edward County: Part III – shopping!

Here is my final post for PEC.
Birdhouse City is such a hoot. This is a fun spot. Hundreds of bird houses! I think the rock was a bigger hit than the bird houses, though!

My girls

Strike a pose!

We had a girl car and a boy car. Hubby and son-in-law were in our car. We got into the kids' car. Off we went to Bloomfield in Prince Edward County. This is one of my favourite stores.

Yes. I bought two things...

This is what I bought for the house!
Her wing opens and you can put a tea light in it.

Ants - I spray painted them!

We stopped for coffee and buttertarts, and did a Selfie/Groupie!

We visited when we stayed here for our 10th anniversary in 2012.

• Sir John went to The Waring House
• Prince Edward County - Marine Museum

Trip to Prince Edward County: Part II

Our Isabelle is creative! 
Carrot with dip and peas.
Sort of ants-on-a-log!

This is where the kids were renting for a week.

It's called Mill House.
It is a beautiful spot, bought for the land and the 150-year-old home renovated to be a rental. There is a lovely renovated barn, suitable for weddings (here is one bride & groom's photos!), barn dances, and big parties.

Someone popped out from behind a bush
and scared her Gramma!
Someone thought that was really funny!

The kids have had friends pop in from southern Ontario, and been having a blast. We were their sole Wednesday visitors!

 The house has four bedrooms and can sleep lots of people. Thursday and Friday they had 7 adults and 10 kids in the house. Caitlin and Dave had a birthday party, as they share Aug. 16th. It was delightful.

Prince Edward County is a fun place to visit. Sandbanks Provincial Park is amazing, even on a chilly day.

We share photos on iCloud, and it looked like so much fun. I know many of our fellow grandparents wish they could be closer and visit more often. This is a good alternative, as well as blogging, Skype, etc. We are modern grandparents!!!



We weren't there for the fooferaw, as we had to be back in town for hubby's follow-up food intolerance test appointment on Friday with our Naturopath, Dr. Jen. We just had a one-day visit with the kids, and drove back in pouring rain, with frogs hopping across the road in the dark. Yikes.




Jos' song on the player piano


Jos' song from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
This video is about Jos' song. She was playing on the player piano and wrote me a song!

These folks, the Vaders, are part of my son-in-law's family. Something like cousins once removed...his grandmother's brother...
They bought the property for the land, for farming, but rent out the house after 8 years of renos.
The house was bought from a couple in their 90s, very busy farmers and involved in the community. The Vaders have kept some of the furniture, and the artifacts in the house, which is so respectful.
What a project! Such a fun extended family! How wonderful to be able to support local family farms!