While we were on vacation at the cottage, we went out to Cleveland to (among other things) tour the Steamship William G. Mather. Now, I like boats, but I didn't expect to fall in love with all the little details that were on the ship. 

A cabinet of keys that made me weirdly giddy!

Chalkboard!

Fan I wanted to pull down and put in my purse!

Light I also wanted to take home with me!

And last, but not least, a griffin woodcarving!I am pretty sure I'm going to draw and stitch this guy up at some point. 

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I've had this idea for stitching up the graph of K3,3 in my old math textbook for a while now. As usual, I'm not 100% happy with the final product.  It needs to be centered more, and a couple of the graphs look a bit wonky. In fact, the more I look at it, the more mistakes I can see. But overall, it's a good effect. I've got some other graphs in mind to do as well.

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Any time we drive through rural areas, be it on the way to the cottage, on the way to visit friends in Pennsylvania, going to pick apples (you get the idea), I get this intense urge to want to leave the suburbs (where I've always lived) and live in an old farmhouse with acres and acres.

Such a place (Maple Grove Farm, pictured above) does exist in my extended family. This is the farm where my grandmother grew up. No one lives there. I think it has indoor plumbing (there's electricity for sure). Sometimes I dream about leaving here and moving there. Sure, there's no job waiting for me (or Brendan), but who cares! Lets go!

But I sort of wonder if we're cut out for it. Right now, I think I will settle for living vicariously through people who do live on acres and go from there. 

Plus, we do have the cottage to go to.

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We're back from our vacation at the cottage.

Photos of lake activities and our side trip to Niagara Falls are up in the gallery.

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Celebrated Johnny's First Birthday a little early yesterday.

He loved it all...

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