dragonfly day

Yay, the phone lines are working again! Jeff theorizes that a lightning surge blew a protector. The Bell guy came and brought some new ones.

Today's Blathering is so named because the dragonflies seem to be hatching on Canoe Lake right now. We watched one come out of its case (cocoon?) this morning, which was VERY cool; I've never actually seen a dragonfly emerging, have only seen the dry husk it leaves behind. We gathered around the tiny creature and watched it slowly unfurl its wings, drying off and getting strong enough to fly.

It's amazing, how such a tiny event can seem so magical, but it does.





Jeff and I took Brittany to Tea Lake this morning. We explored a small island, feasted on apple juice and cheese string, went swimming after. The lake's much warmer that it was around ice-out time.

Larkin, Rick and Brittany left around 1 pm. Jeff immediately went into a cleaning frenzy while I took a three-hour nap. :-)

Ruth, Kaarel, Sara and Annie arrive tomorrow. Luisa, Reid, Ronnie and Michael are coming for lunch on Monday.





Larkin and Rick said a bear visited them in the night earlier this week. They never saw it, but found evidence when they came down in the morning: large paw marks on the boathouse door, marks indicating that something had been trying to get into the barbecue.

Sure makes the idea of going to the outhouse in the middle of the night that much more exciting.

[edited 8:48 pm] Wow...swarms of dragonflies outside the cottage window, swooping and soaring in circles, feeding on mosquitoes. Go, dragonflies, go!

Last note: I'm on a dial-up line until Tuesday, so please don't send me any big files until then, thanks! :-)