{"id":18364,"date":"2021-09-17T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:40:22","slug":"episode-430-turquoise-arm-chairs-on-an-empty-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18364","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 430 TURQUOISE ARM CHAIRS ON AN EMPTY BEACH"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 430    TURQUOISE ARM CHAIRS ON AN EMPTY BEACH<\/p>\n

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Alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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So inviting.  Two empty Muskoka chairs on an empty beach on the east shore<\/div>\n
of Georgian  Bay.  On private property..  Not our chairs.  So tempting.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI am going to sit on one of those and contemplate how the universe is unfolding.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThen I will join you,\u201d said our hostess Penny.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And George along with Marjorie and our dogs arrived.  A little much.  Very<\/div>\n
nervy invasion .  Squattng on chairs without permission.<\/div>\n

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Then along came Dave!   The owner of the chairs\u2026.the owner of this part of the beach.<\/div>\n
Not a good sign.  I felt a confrontation coming. <\/div>\n

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But that did not happen.<\/div>\n

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\u201cSit down, no problem.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat magnificent chairs\u2026and the view\u2026wonderful\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, we think so too\u2026I was just coming down for my breakfast.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSorry,we could not resist those chairs.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cPrecisely how I feel each day here on the beach\u2026so glad you feel the same.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy is this huge stretch of beach so empty?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSummer nearly over\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYour cottage back there in the forest?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes\u2026you can get to the road on our boardwalk if you wish\u2026you will<\/div>\n
find our cottage, and I bet I know which one you will admire most.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Dave had a large modern cottage\u2026an artistic structure with many rooms nestled into the forest. But he preserved<\/div>\n
the old cottages as well.  There was a time long ago when these tiny buildings were all there was to cottage life.<\/div>\n

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I could say a lot more about our visit but those words would be wasted.  Scroll down\u2026enjoy.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 430    TURQUOISE ARM CHAIRS ON AN EMPTY BEACH Alan skeoch sept. 3021 So inviting.  Two empty Muskoka chairs on an empty beach on the east shore of Georgian  Bay.  On private property..  Not our chairs.  So tempting. \u201cI am going to sit on one of those and contemplate how the universe is unfolding.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}