From friends near Simcoe, to a the Stere reunion in Tavistock and back to Rock Glen Resort another fun day.

Where are we today ?

Stere Reunion, Tavistock Ontario

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         Much Cooler today than yesterday (almost cold) but sunny, only got into the low 60's F compared to the 90's yesterday. Up early this morning, enjoyed coffees and conversation with Chris and Bill on their nice and sunny warm patio. Catching up more just the 4 of us now.

nice a warm on the patio

      They have been having issues with the multitudes of chipmunks stealing the bird seed from all the bird feeders so he has been trapping them and moving them to another neigborhood bush a few miles away, the large population is now dwindling nicely and they will adapt. These two are moving today, more will follow.

       They have a huge garden here lotsa veggies planted and does very well huge rhubarb patch as well..

fruit trees at the far end

Apple trees, plum, pears, peaches etc.

        Below is a huge outdoor wood furnace that heats their 2400 square ft bungalow house quite comfortably all winter, they have an unlimited supply of firewood as well, 25 acres mostly bush here.  This outdoor Polar Furnace is a boiler that works efficiently and  does and excellent job. Click HERE  to read about it.

love this garden windmill

large raspberry patch 

The doggie playground, next to their
heated and airconditioned mansion.

           About 11 am we secured our coach and headed north the Tavistock and the yearly Stere reunion on Suzie's side. A nice country drive through Tillsonburg area that was tobacco country years ago, now mostly Ginseng.

Ginseng under the fields of black covers 

old tobacco dryers still here

         Many fields of wheat? (or whatever) blowing in the wind, reminds me of rolling swells on the ocean.

      Got to the Tavistock town Hall for the reunion about 12:30 for the descendants of Joseph Stere (Stiri) or (Steria). Attendance was down this year I counted only about 125 this year, some years well over 200.

        After announcements and grace an orderly line of people proceeded to sample all of the amazing foods on this potluck buffet. Just no way to sample everything. ( I tried!)

I attempted to sample it all, but not possible

      Then there was all the amazing desserts to enjoy as well, but appears I overdid the first course, so no dessert for me. But then I am not much of a desert person. My Seafood salad I made the other day was a huge hit, not much left to bring home, but no problem we can take care of that.

dessert 

more dessert

         We won 2 prizes again this year,  Suzie got won a large bag of healthy trail mix, and I guessed the count on a jar of jelly beans (462). So now we have 2 treats, and large bag of healthy trail mix and 462 jelly beans (not so healthy) to enjoy.

our 2 prizes

     We both managed to chat with various people for a couple hours , then as everyone packed up and waddled home their separate ways we made our way back to Rock Glen Resort for a few more days.

Suzie, her Dad, and Keith Steria  from N.E
 New York State who has a sister
 in Phoenix AZ, that we will
 hook up with someday

        Now back to Rock Glen Resort by 4:30 then quickly hooked back up on our site here. Getting very cool now windy and only 50f, brr.

Then Suzie got her Doggie fix as Tucker's
mum and dad walked by, she missed Tucker.

       We travelled only 109 miles today, back to where we started yesterday at noon. After a birthday party Saturday and a family reunion today. Time to put our feet up, relax a bit and get back into our healthy eating habits again for a while, until next time. So nice to see everyone again and reconnect.

today's nice country drive in our house

        Thanks for stopping by for a visit, maybe some day we will meet up with more of our readers on down the road, but we need a bit of a break right now. Hope you had a wonderful weekend too.

When we head south Countdown

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this summer