Well this August long weekend was certainly busy. Things started early for Brandon and I, we went to the cottage mid day and when we got there built the patio furniture that we bought back in May lol. We also built two desks that can be used for computers then went to play some Pokemon Go, had dinner and met Maggie at night after her badminton match. Saturday as usual Maggie went to the Belleville farmers market then we went to JYSK to pick up a new center beam for one of our beds. Their stuff is a bit on the cheaper side, a bit to cheap if you ask me and one of the beds broke. I have a feeling it won’t get any better so we’ll probably have to replace it soon.
Maggie & Brandon headed back while I took photos and tidied up a bit more, I’ve been really bad and we haven’t done any short term rentals yet, that’s on the list of things to do and it’s definitely on the top of the list. I took the scenic route home and the Lexus NX is no IS lol… The drive is still enjoyable but I mean the NX is an SUV that’s high up in the air, with the IS it had grip for ages and you could really throw that thing around the corner. When I got home, Brandon wanted to go swimming so this time Maggie joined him in the water and I took some pictures. 🙂
Hehe now that I know what to do with the pool to keep it clean and clear, it’s definitely quite nice to have and they spent about an hour and a half splashing. Poor Slinky could only watch us from the inside of the house… A bit later I did let him onto the patio however watched him closely as I’m worried he might run off somewhere.
Sunday Eddy & I went to near Algonquin (to our usual spot) to do some astrophotography and it was a ton of fun. Clouds were in the air but we really lucked out and the weather cooperated once we got on site. Oh on the way up Highway 35, a black bear decided to run across our path and it’s a good thing it did it during the day because it would have been difficult to see at night!
The sunset looked quite nice so we took a quick stop to take a few photos. I brought my BNVDs up and also played with the DBAL A3 as you can see, the blue light behind me is from the thermacell mosquito repellants and they work pretty damn well! The bugs were pretty bad when we got on site around 930pm but by 11 were mainly gone. I saw a fox run by us on the road under nods and man it’s so much fun to play at night. I took a time lapse with one of the cameras and it turned out pretty well, I’ll post that a bit later.
Got back around 330am and by 830 I was up and about. Not too tired and it was a rather lazy day at home, except I had to help Maggie build a drawer set she bought from Structube and that was an absolute nightmare. It was pretty expensive too but total particle board garbage, I told her never to buy their stuff again. The instructions were pretty poor, there were what I felt a lot of redundant screws and it just took so damn long… She bought a second for Brandon’s room but I told her there’s absolutely no way I’m going to spend 4 hours building a second one as it was an absolutely horrible experience.
Live and learn though sigh the long weekend is over and it’s back to the grind tomorrow.
