{"id":21978,"date":"2022-08-25T20:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21978"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:51:22","slug":"episode-6-sharing-cottage-life-with-george-and-penny-august-23-25-2022-georgian-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21978","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 6 SHARING COTTAGE LIFE WITH GEORGE AND PENNY AUGUST 23-25 2022 GEORGIAN BAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 6        SHARING  COTTAGE LIFE WITH GEORGE AND PENNY   AUGUST 23-25   2022 GEORGIAN BAY<\/div>\n

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COTTAGE LIFE ON  GEORGIAN BAY<\/div>\n

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Some regular;ar readers may wonder why the episodes stopped so abruptly,.<\/div>\n
Marjorie and I took a three day holiday with George and Penny and sampled cottage life<\/div>\n
in Ontario. <\/div>\n
why should you be interested?  There is a chance that some readers do not have cottages\u2026or do not<\/div>\n
have old style cottages that were once common.  So here are a few pictures<\/div>\n
of cottage life on Georgian Bay, Ontario.   We are so lucky to have the Great Lakes<\/div>\n
nearby  so just pretend you came along with us.  It will be a short trip\u2026.time enough<\/div>\n
for a wilderness walk and a lingering swim before the leaves turn red gold and the water<\/div>\n
cools.<\/div>\n

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SURPRISE<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat day is it , Marjorie?\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAugust 24, 2022, I think!  Holy Cot, this is our 59th wedding anniversary\u2026we forgot\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201c59 years have passed by ..full years.  Do you think the boys will remember?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI doubt it since we did not remember either\u201d<\/div>\n

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Penny and George took over\u2026dinner preceded by gin and tonic.  And followed by<\/div>\n
outlandish stories of all our married lives.,,all four of us\u2026.hooting and laughing at<\/div>\n
the foibles of married life.  A wonderful time.<\/div>\n

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\u201cRemember when you insisted that our honeymoon hotel have one double bed\u2026.no<\/div>\n
other beds, Alan?  You did not want marriage to start with separate beds.”\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, and the hotel creeps just shoved two single beds together with a big sheet disguise.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRemember what caused the two beds to split apart as we consummated  the marriage.?”<\/div>\n

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Stories like that rolled from our lips\u2026.four voices trying to top each other\u2026good time friends..<\/div>\n

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Nothing quite like a cottage road weaving through an oak and white pine forest.<\/div>\n

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One upon a time cottages were small cabins tucked in the forest like this one.<\/div>\n

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And footpaths led to the open water.<\/div>\n

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Sand wind blown in places but held in place in others\u2026.held by wild grasses.<\/div>\n

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Penny and Marjorie all set for two hours swimming and wading and talking and laughing.<\/div>\n
Carefree time.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 6        SHARING  COTTAGE LIFE WITH GEORGE AND PENNY   AUGUST 23-25   2022 GEORGIAN BAY alan skeoch august 23-25, 2022 COTTAGE LIFE ON  GEORGIAN BAY Some regular;ar readers may wonder why the episodes stopped so abruptly,. Marjorie and I took a three day holiday with George and Penny and sampled cottage […]<\/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-21978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978","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=21978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}