Driving to the lake on June 30, it was rescue time for another wee turtle. If you zoom in, you can see that Iain was wise to hold the wee beastie away from himself: that is a stream of turtle pee, yes. And no, I have no idea how there is room for a turtle in that shell with all that pee.

Okay, things have been moving along at the cottage. We went up on Canada Day weekend, and were both happy and sad to see that Steve had removed the cedar and pine trees we'd asked him to cut, and the cedar was nicely piled to dry.

Canada Day was the boathouse-moving day, so Iain prepared a wall that would hold all the electrical and plumbing fixtures that had to stay behind. Very sturdy!

We had lots of help for the move, which was important, because the boathouse will be rebuilt as a shed; Dodie and Myles intend to use it to store their snowmobiles and other items; so we didn't want it to be just torn down, but rather disassembled.

Irene and Carl came early and pitched in. Myles' buddy Richard showed up with a huge trailer and scared all of us by working all day in sandals, when the others had workboots (he says he welds in them, too). Roger came too, and everyone worked very hard. I have a lot more pictures and video, but here are just a few.

Irene and Dodie removed nails and collected fallen ones.  Even so, I think I would like to get a metal detector and clean up thoroughly at some point.

Iain and Carl removing the cap.  We started at 10:00 a.m. and the move was complete by 2:00 p.m.  I never thought it would be so quick.

Mom supervised.  She was enjoying the sun!

A break to discuss strategy, as the walls come down.