We decided to head to the cottage Thursday afternoon to spend a couple of days there and it was absolutely great.  It was nice to have Maggie & Brandon around to help build some furniture but the first evening we just walked around downtown which was pretty much like a ghost town lol.  I guess small towns shut down on holidays so that was definitely an interesting experience.

We ended up eating at Swiss Chalet, it’s close to our cottage and easy which is nice.

Friday we went to the HR Frink Conservation area and it was nice to get out into nature.  A really cool place, I can see us walking around there a lot when the weather is nicer.  There is a nice boardwalk and I’m really excited to see what type of birds I might be able to spot in the future.

Hehe it’s very cute of the locals to put lost items near the entrance, pretty smart if you ask me.  It was pretty cold and windy so we didn’t stay on the boardwalk too much and the grounds were really muddy at certain points so we only walked around for about an hour and a half.  We then went for a drive and woo I found a bunch of Osprey, I love those things!

Mmm what majestic birds, I hope I can catch one diving for fish one day that’d be pretty awesome.

In the afternoon we went home and built the rest of the furniture and lol Brandon absolutely hated it.  At one point he said he realized building furniture is like adult Lego and now he hates Lego haha…  It took a lot of time but was worth it.

We bought a sofa bed which is still yet to be delivered as well as outdoor stuff but we’re getting closer to having it ready for the nicer warmer! 🙂  There’s a licensing fee if we want to run a short term rental in Belleville so I’ll have to take care of that but yeah it’s going to be fun.

Finally this morning I woke up early, around 630 or 7am and saw this which broke my heart.

There was a morning dove mourning the passing of what I guess is its mate and from what I read some of these birds mate for life.  It was by its side till we went out in the morning around 9, it flew away as we exited the house and came back later.  Definitely very sad to see.

We hit a small farmer’s market then went back, lol despite being at the cottage Maggie and Brandon didn’t go to the water till the very end.  As we left I noticed that another morning dove made a nest under the awning at the front of the house which is pretty neat.

We took two cars, Maggie and Brandon went straight home while I took a detour and went for a nice drive.  Got back mid afternoon and we still have some contractors here doing some work, they’ll be here late and all 3 of us are in the small guest room because it’s one of the rooms that’s not all dusty…  can’t wait for the work to be done, we might have missed the peak of the house selling season but I still think we’ll do alright.  Hope to list in May and go from there.