Month: August 2025

It’s playdate Sunday so we opted to hit up the Princess Sodalite mine in Bancroft to get some sun shine, fresh air, and exercise swinging hammers, and moving rocks with our hands, and feet. The kids spent seventy five minutes going ape on everything they could get their hands on. Worked up a good hunger, and a need for a brief rest. We even ran into some other friends with a cottage nearby, which was unexpected, but pleasant. Their year old Boxer Bentley was there too. He is always good for a wrestle!

Busting up quartz and anything else that they could find not nailed down! It’s a great place to go if you want to sprain an ankle on all the loose screed. Fun times! I personally find a patch of ground and then pick through all the bigger rocks to uncover smaller more precious stuff that might have gone unnoticed in-between. Some days it works, and other times it’s all effort with no pay off. Such is life!

My wife’s friend and her husband, and children were there too. They have Bentley the boxer. She was one of our bridesmaids way back when. They looked to be having a good time. It wasn’t too hot, and all their boys could swing hammers, and smash stuff for however long they could stand it. Perfect for Minecraft obsessed kids I think. Here she is picking through some finer shards of rose quartz, or selenite (I don’t recall which).

We have our guest until 5:00 pm today so we started at the mine, and then grabbed lunch, and have driven to the cottage for some water sports, swimming, paddle boarding, and tubing fun. I want them to be active more so than being indoors playing on uncle Andrew’s PS5. Not that Goat Simulator isn’t a riot to watch & play, but they are supposed to be active! Not sedentary.

So not much of a lazy Sunday, but should be a good time anyway. I know my eldest daughter is happy to see her friend during the summer. Take care out there.

I’m a little out of it. I have not slept very well as of late, and the side effect of that is my being a bit on the spacey side. Not much, just a bit off. Ha. Hard to tell really. Like operating at 98% instead of one hundred. Not much, but I feel it.

I don’t know whether I need to revisit the mattress, or the air temperature, air quality, or moisture level. Something is off, which is impacting my sleep quality, as well as my sleep quantity. Had night terrors recently too, which ruined one night’s sleep this week via stress response, and lying awake afterwards for quite a while before returning to sleep. The dog has been restless on the bed lately too. I could do without that nonsense, that’s for sure.

I do believe it is Saturday now. The temperature is going to start to climb once again. Yet another prolonged heat wave to muddle through — yay. Not to mention that it hasn’t rained in more than a week, so everything is tinder dry. I pray the fireworks tonight don’t set off a major blaze in the park, or surrounding housing. Fireworks aren’t worth a major community fire that takes out a subdivisions worth of houses.

It’s not often you get to discover something that really makes your dog’s day, but figured out it’s boat rides with the family, so now Captain Dopey here gets to tag along on the trips not headed directly to the marina, and he is all smiles, and waggy tail because of it. Happy Friday to you and yours.