Stair Bumping

In each house we grew up in, we had a set of stairs.  Personally my childhood would not have been complete without the glorious art of stair bumping!

We’d go down on our bums and run up to the top again…we’d go face first, feet first and on occasion share the stairs and go down together, all the while Mum was yelling “alright now that’s enough!”, “someone is going to get hurt” or my favorite to this day “show some decorum girls!” Hahahaha

In the late 1970’s there was “extreme stair bumping”, in a previous post I wrote about my brother riding in his baby walker down a flight of stairs……they were legal in the 70’s.

There are many different styles of “Stair bumping”  people have been known to use garbage bags, sleeping bags, mattress’ and of course cardboard, it’s just like tobogganing inside where it’s warm and cozy 😀

A definite “bucket list” item.

The best kind of bumping is just setting off from the top step on yur butt and to try to pick up speed as you go 😀

As the photo below says “why didn’t I think of this?”

If you’ve never experienced Stair bumping here’s a video to see what you’ve been missing

Megz and Lolo

My daughter Meghan is finally home. She’s been on a wonderful trip to Alberta, she and a friend “Lolo” flew out two weeks ago, and just returned home today.
It was their first big trip alone. They are only 14.  They stayed with a friends family who was gracious enough to keep them both for 2 weeks whom they’d only met on an exchange trip they took this year with their class.

I can’t thank them enough for allowing the girls to stay with them for such a long time and helping to give them such a wonderful experience!

On the way home they needed to take a 3 hour bus ride back to Calgary Airport, another adventure in itself , board the plane, which had been delayed an hour and finally back to Toronto, where “Lolo’s” father picked them up at 10:30pm and then spent the night in Toronto before heading home today.

We are busy catching up, she really hasn’t stopped telling me all about their trip since ohhhh about 3.5 hours ago, she is having a much-needed shower, so I have a little time 😀

I am so happy she is home.

Hope everyone has a wonderful night just like us

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Liberating

I did something last night to Daughter #1’s horror that I don’t think she’ll ever be able to erase from her mind.

I went outside in my undies!!!

Oh the horror!!!!!

It was so hot in my house last night (85 degrees to be exact) that I stripped down to my skivvies and marched straight outside!!

“Muuuummmmm!!!! That’s gross.”  (a bit harsh….I don’t think I look that bad ) 😀

I said “Well it’s not like I’m sitting on the front steps of the house in my mentionables eating watermelon for all the world to see!!!”

I was in my very semi secluded backyard at 9 pm.  😀

There was something so liberating about it, I felt like as though I was breaking the law and getting away with it, or like when I was little ,swiping little bits of icing off a freshly iced cake that I wasn’t supposed to touch… while no one was looking…and fixing it up as though I was never there 😀

So lock your doors and close the blinds,

Mamas goin out again tonight!!!

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Summer Slow Down

Summer has arrived in Muskoka!!

  The small town I live in is all of a sudden alive after many months of sleep…slightly poetic non? Oooooo French too.. 😀

Port Carling at the end of Summer

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aerial view – Hub of the Lakes

Three times in two weeks I have narrowly missed being T-boned, hit head on and left questioning why some people have a driver’s licence at all!!

On my way home from work the other day I was waiting to make a left hand turn onto my road,  when the person waiting to make a left off my road decided  she’d just put the pedal to the metal and maybe push me out of the way? she missed me by mere inches!!

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Yesterday coming home some guy in a huge black SUV decided it was a brilliant idea to pass on a double line and on a corner….again scared the cheese right out of us, all of a sudden there he was!!!

And then again today!  I had just pulled out onto the road and was coming up the small hill near the “Corner Store” when BANG there was another unsafe idiot driver, she was making an extremely wide turn I mean wide she was in my lane!!! This time scared the cheese whiz out of me!!

There was actually and accident in a parking lot on the weekend!!!!  A head on collision???? Really??? in a parking lot!!!!  People must slow down and pay attention!!

Many people come to Muskoka to unwind, slow down and enjoy time with their families….why is everyone in such a hurry????  or maybe that’s it, everyone is so relaxed and breathing in the Northern air that they just aren’t paying attention? hmmm.

on a happier note and to change the subject

Daughter #2 is having a wonderful time in Alberta, so much so, that I received a text from her last night saying “Can we move here, I love it , I don’t want to leave”  so much for “Mummy I miss you , and I just want to come home and give you a huge hug“ 😀

I am so happy we were able to send her out “West” again, she was there in May for an exchange trip with her class, and was invited back along with one of her friends from school.

With views like this I wouldn’t want to come home either! Will post some of her photos when she’s back

Daughter #3 is having a great time with Grandma swimming, shopping, gossiping and trying to keep Grandma out of trouble. 😀

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Daughter #1 enjoys spending time with me now that her busy weekend is over and has nothing else to do… 😀

Son #1 is busy working so we don’t see too much of him 😀

Happy Monday!!

sorry couldn’t resist

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Friends on Friday

I am so sick and tired of these so-called friends of mine who can’t handle their alcohol.
The other night without a word of a lie they dropped me THREE times not just once but THREE times….

While carrying me to the car.

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