Happy Weekend

After work today we’re headed home to spend the long weekend with family. I can hardly believe summer is already winding down, but I’m really looking forward to the extra day to hang out on the lake. I’m cut from a simple kind of cloth. A good day for me doesn’t include much more than sitting lakeside with people I love, a glass of good wine, a camp fire and a soft breeze off the lake. Wherever I might be the world over, if I can find a quiet moment by myself to sit at the water’s edge, I feel like I’m home.

This is the place I call home. My mother and stepfather’s house which butts up against 100′ of beautiful Lake Ontario waterfront. It’s where Mike and I go for peace, serenity, and more often than not, a good party involving lots of lawn games. (What, bocce ball, what??) And it’s here I shall be this weekend…

{Photos I took over Memorial Day weekend of my niece as she contemplated just the perfect way to keep the fire roaring…and then flopped on the ground exhausted from the effort.}

Happy weekend, everyone! I’ll be back next week with a patty pan squash recipe or two to share!

Nina

The drive home took longer than we had hoped. It was bittersweet to arrive. We’re both sorry to have left Bar Harbor, but so happy to be reunited with our black lab, Nina. She has been with me nearly every day since I adopted her in 2005.

These silly little bride and groom doggie chew toys were a wedding gift to Nina from her Aunt Cheyanne, one of my BFFs from college.