houses are being built around us ..

this one across the street looks huge but actually is only 2400 square feet, buyer gets to pick finishing colors

behind the side yard of our house to the right ( which i am calling our back yard).for some reason our yard is the storage yard for all their lumber.

behind our side yard (my back yard)to the left( this piece of dirt is actually our back yard so now u know why i am calling the side yard our back yard.)confused yet  it is because we are on a corner lot .the front of the house faces  the main road, and the driveway faces the subdivision road,while the rest of the houses face the subdivion road.

and the one next to that, still just the basements poured in the 2 to the left of the driveway

erika and i tied the dogs to the veranda and gave then a hose bath, then they vegged on the veranda til they dried.

kissing

sitting for treats

trying to open the gate

watching the workmen

and the dirty dogs waited patiently til we were done.

got clean bandannas today, can not wait til we get grass and a fence for them

found these at the superstore, going to try them tonight, first bbq of the year. found all parts to the little bbq and set it up. the big bbq scares me and besides i couldnt move it even if the 2 girls helped me.

i went by the entrance and ended up at the gun club ...they have an amazing view of lake simcoe looking north. an old guy was just locking up,told me to come back when they were open and i could take pics facing south and lake ontario and go thru their trails (not as a target). he gave me directions to purple woods.

purple woods

Purple Woods Conservation Area, the site of the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority’s annual Purple Woods Maple Syrup Festival, is a 17-hectare sugar maple forest and open meadow located in the midst of the provincially significant Oak Ridges Moraine. Here one can use the viewing platform that is only steps from the parking area to get a tremendous view south all the way to Lake Ontario from the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine.

A short 0.5 km trail allows for a quick stroll down into the hollow. This is where you will find the sugar shack, which is the heart of this operating sugar bush. Visit in mid-March and discover how maple syrup production has changed from early native methods to the modern methods used today (Purple Woods Maple Syrup Festival). Syrup and maple products are also available for sale at this time. If you visit in the spring and summer, you may have the opportunity to see or hear some of the more common forest birds in the canopy of this mature deciduous forest.
 this trail also hooks up to the oak ridges trail along ritson road north, so you can get a longer hike in.

 the short trail goes down a steep hill,that was easy ,coming back up not so much.

this kinda creeped me out,came around a corner and saw this,made me think the homeless guy from milne park markham had a summer home......but nobody was home . this trail should  not be done alone ...kinda creepy....

seen this on the ground on the way out .....those must have been love shacks !!!!

this bird lives on my veranda ...or thinks he does!!!!

erika was watching the dogs today while i was at the spa ...guess i should of told her when you bring the dogs in bring in the food also