Absolutely, even temporarily. Let me know if you're ever in the Kenora area in the summer and hopefully we will be there. We can do up the adoption papers on the deck with a nice cup of hot coffee and watch the sunrise or set, take your pic.
It's a bit of a lame picture, but this is the view from the living room in the evening a week ago:
-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 11:01, 2008-12-21
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
No, I did not mean to repost ,I don't know what happened. We were at our cottage for the weekend and got a lot of grass cutting and brush cleaning done. To our surprise a For Sale sign went up at our neighbours 3000 sg ft. house with 85 acres of land, drilled well and septic system. I haven't heard the price yet but am curious to find out. As long as that property is for sale we are going to hold off on selling ours. After spending a weekend there getting work done and doing a little pickeral fishing the idea of selling is not a priority anymore. The pictures you posted of the cottage are just beautiful, so quaint and homey. Al
Todd, I travelled almost 6000 miles last month via airplane (9 1/2 hours) plus the 1.5 to Toronto and the 3 after the flight to this view-travel time would be about the same in the Pontiac to Carl's place !
You have to remember our regular home is in the Red River Valley in southern Manitoba. Some years here there is enough of them here to pick you up and carry you off!
So far, it seems pretty good at the lake. Maybe it's just so much fun there, we don't even notice them...
There is a screened in gazebo so I imagine that sometimes they must get bad. When I was a kid going to our cabin on the west side of Kenora, the skitters and ticks were bad at the lake, and at home we had few mosquitoes and no ticks. Now we go out there to get away from them. Go figure!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
A screened in porch is a must, couldn't ever survive June/July without one at the family place in the Kawarthas! This year has been brutal. Funny though, I now don't react at all to the Kawartha skitters anymore, but the species in Burlington will give me a huge welt. Go figure? Real nice place Carl. And a great looking family to boot! You must feel blessed.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
God has blessed me with the best wife and kids in the whole world, no doubt. All 3 of them treat me like a king. It is so much fun to go to a place like this as a family and put all the stresses of work and whatever behind.
It still almost doesn't seem possible that we can have a place like that to call our own. We have taught our kids since they were tiny that we are rich. Not in the sense of $$$, but in the fact that God has given us health, shelter, food and my wife and I both grew up in very stable homes. Our parents have been such a great influence on us in that they were patient with us and taught us manners, consideration, how to work hard and how to laugh too. We want to make sure that we pass all that on to our kids and most importantly we want to make sure that we take time for them and show them that they are important in this world.
Sorry for my little rant there........!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
for 73sc, i was in ukraine last year, and there are 'cottages' -called 'dachas' in the country side, but they are very small, more like an ice fishing shack... and used mostly to weekend away from the city and keep a garden plot, some are near rivers, but mostly just for gardening...most people live in apartments in the city so they have the plots to grow some food for themselves... pretty cool...
carl, congrats on the cottage! looks great! ...i can wait for our 'fishing weekend' theres around 40 of us that rent an island/resort for the weekend near nestor falls and fish and party all weekend... lotw is gorgeous country!! ...my one weekend to try my luck at musky for the whole weekend... no luck so far... 4 in our cabin last year, biggest so far was over 50"...
i had a much less quiet saturday night! ...finally got the bbc running in the beaumont, open headers of course, now i have to drive it like that to the muffler shop without attracting too much attention!!
I bet that drive to the muffler shop may be the long way around to get there!
We looked at a cabin near Nestor Falls. Just about 5 miles before you get there, at one point you come down a gentle hill and around around a left curve and there is a small lake on the right, likely about 250' by 1000'. It's the only cabin on that lake. Neat spot, but just a bit too close to the highway for us. The price was great, $129,000 and it had a nice big shop on the yard as well.
Here's a shot of it from the highway:
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
God has blessed me with the best wife and kids in the whole world, no doubt. All 3 of them treat me like a king. It is so much fun to go to a place like this as a family and put all the stresses of work and whatever behind.
It still almost doesn't seem possible that we can have a place like that to call our own. We have taught our kids since they were tiny that we are rich. Not in the sense of $$$, but in the fact that God has given us health, shelter, food and my wife and I both grew up in very stable homes. Our parents have been such a great influence on us in that they were patient with us and taught us manners, consideration, how to work hard and how to laugh too. We want to make sure that we pass all that on to our kids and most importantly we want to make sure that we take time for them and show them that they are important in this world.
Sorry for my little rant there........!
That's not a rant, its a statement of faith! PTL we are all truly blessed, and God seems to favor car guys!! lol
i'm tire kicking on cabins too, i saw that one for sale, pic was from a different angle online!
yeah it will be a nice ride thru rush hour traffic tommorrow morning past portage & main! i have an R plate so hopefully that will keep me away from getting a ticket... i'll have to test the bbc torque on the 4.56 gears before i get my 3.73 in there!! i'll have a few p.o'd neighbours in the morning.
There was a number of pics on that site I think. Nice cabin, but looked to be a bit scary. It had a full set of rebar window cages welded up that covered the windows when you locked up. That tells me something about the history as far as break ins. That scared us off.
I'll watch the evening news for your morning run at Portage and Main!!! Let me know how much bail is set at....
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Hey Carl just came across this old post congrats on the cabin . Have seem posts where you speak of it. Did not realize you had just got this year. Where did all the pics go . What lake is it on. Vern
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1957 Pathfinder deluxe 4 door wagon 1961 Pontiac Parisienne bubble top Traded for a Harley sorry guys.
I refreshed some of the pictures that were missing. Not sure why they didn't show, the link all looked perfect.
Anyway, it is on Little Gordon lake about 25 minutes east of where the bypass meets back with the highway through Kenora. The lake is beautiful, and the water is absolutely perfectly clear. Not a weed or any algae in sight. It's amazing. I have never seen such a clean lake in my life.
We are in the middle of the pic, behind those tallest trees.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Beautiful Carl you are definitely blessed to own a place like that. Now I know why we don't see you Sunday nights
That was true for many of those weekends Vern. I think I made either 2 or 3 cruise nights this year, and that took effort. We are blessed.
We have so much on the go with the size of yard we have and the kids the age they are I'm not sure we'll always get to go in '09 like I'd love to. Fortunately, we have someone lined up who will likely spend a good part of next summer at our cabin. I will be much happier if it is occupied lots even if we are not there.
And before you guys think I'm nuts to let someone use it that much when we are not there, he loves cabin life almost more than me and I know he will take at least as good care of it as we do, if not better.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
