This week I welcomed quite the celebrity to my cottage: The Traveling Bugga!
The Traveling Bugga! (TB, for short) has been to all sorts of far flung places in the world, and in the past few days he saw fit to visit me at my small lake in the Ottawa Valley. Now, I’m not sure that it compares to all the other exotic destinations, like Antartica, Tasmania, New Zealand, China, France, Norway and Las Vegas….. but perhaps even a Bugga! craves some peace and quiet every now and then. And that, I could offer.
TB brought a couple of friends along….. namely Gryphon and her lovely daughter.
Had I prepared properly, naturally I would have rolled out the red carpet and greeted them with sufficient fanfare. But, alas…. a huge tree had fallen down and managed to block the path from the road to the cottage, so TB, Gryphon and the little princess may have had to hop over some of the branches on the way down. It’s terribly embarrassing, of course, and I would have photoshopped and added a red carpet and so on…. but there was so much to remove that there didn’t seem to be any photograph left in the end…… So please just imagine that it was fabulous.
Gryphon and the princess went swimming and canoeing along with me and the kids, while TB relaxed on the Muskoka chairs, and possibly even enjoyed some of the Yerba Maté that was brewing next to him. We also spent a couple of days just chatting and knitting and enjoying the quiet countryside.
But all good things must come to an end, and TB had to take his leave and bring his entourage to the next stop on the Canadian tour – the Calypso water park, located between Ottawa and Montreal. I heard they had a blast. In the meantime, we’re left to enjoy the lake at sunset.
Beware of the dragon!
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