HOMESTAY PROGRAM
Part II: Quality Time With Mom and Dad.
Location: Kinmount, Ontario.

My parents decided that it would be prudent of them to take me far far away for a few days so they could have me to themselves, as I had basically been absent for my first 3 days at home (see Ben & Becky's Wedding). We went up to my parent's (and more historically, my Dad's) old stomping grounds near Kinmount, Ontario - about 200 km north of Toronto (maybe). Anyways, Dad used to own a piece of riverside property where he built a "cottage" (little more than a garden shed) where he could stay on weekends to fish, canoe, and enjoy the beautiful peace of Canadian wilderness. Back then, it really was wilderness...now there are cottages here and there, but back then, it was my Dad (later, my Mom) and the fish and the trees and the river.


Note the sweater and jeans. It was remarkably cool when I got to Canada, although everyone had been saying how hot and humid it had been... The tune I was playing here - you can probably tell - is "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by legendary Canadian fisherman Gordon Lightfoot.


Safety first!


I didn't catch anything all day. My dad caught a little small-mouth bass in the morning, and on the way home, we stopped at his secret spot and caught this little sunfish. But as all good fisherpersons know, it's not how many you catch, or how big they are, but rather, how many times you wipe out on the slippery rocks getting to your secret spot (Dad and I - once each).


On the beautiful porch of Kinmount Bed and Breakfast (http://www.fobba.com/member_kinmounthouse.shtml) where my parents had come several times before. A gorgeous old house renovated beautifully into a gorgeous B&B. Patrick Healey is our host - excellent cook, easy conversationalist, generous with time and knowledge, good guy.

Guess how old my Dad is? Go on........... 70 years old, y'all. Seventy.

Delicious desert provided by Patrick - note the award-winning cranberry loaf.
Me Ma and I.