Saying Good Bye To Our Muskoka Lake Front Property

We love our Muskoka lakefront getaway!

I was glad that we were with our closest friends for the past two days.

It was not an easy decision and we agonized over it for some time. Finally, we signed an offer to sell our lake front property in Muskoka and would be closing the deal this Friday.

S. and I went up to our little get away cabin on T. M. Lake. We stopped at Webers for a picnic lunch. We met up with D. and D. at the McDonald at Bracebridge on Tuesday after the Thanksgiving holiday. The weather was mild but cloudy.

After checking in at the Sleep Inn with Florence, we went to the lake. Though I preferred to remember our wonderful time at The Fern on our last visit,  a few things we saw up there was quite upsetting to us. Someone used a black marker and wrote high water mark on the lower left hand side of our cabin.

When our son went to the lake in July, he told us that our boat was missing.  Dou found it laying on our neighbour's property. Not sure at the beginning if it was our boat, we went over to see. Once we saw it, we knew for sure that it was our boat and we got it back to our side.  Both D. and D. have sharp eyes and we were glad the that they were with us on our last visit.

After we got the boat back to our property, we went for a walk passing by the neighbours’ houses.

A walk around our lake front neighbourhood

The more we walked the more I realized how beautiful our property was. Did we do the right thing selling it?

Our last dinner at our lake front cabin

After a short walk, we came back for dinner. I  brought with me some turkey dinner from home and we had a bit of everything to eat.  This was the last dinner we had at the Fern. How sad!

Building a camp fire by our lakeside cabin

After dinner, D. and D. built a fire and we sat around to share the most memorable time we had at The Fern.

View of the Three Mile Lake from our cabin

We looked at the bright stars in the sky and admired the beauty of nature. Again I asked myself: Did we make the right decision selling our place?

There were so many fond memories and fun time at our lakefront property. We remembered the time when we brought Martha here, an innocent 14 year old girl who was entrusted to me by her parents to learn some outdoor skills.

Sitting & talking around a camp fire was an important part of our trip at our cabin.

D. was teaching her how to build a fire therefore sent her to look for some matches.  I reached into my pocket and what I thought was a matches box I got recently from a friend.  I took it out and handed it to Martha. She took this matches box back to D. Minutes later, both of them burst into the loudest and heartiest laugh I had ever heard.

What Martha pulled out from the matches box I gave her was not matches, but a brand new colourful condom! It was the funniest thing as I thought about how Martha's parents would react when I tell her later. I would never forget that. 

Last night as owners by the lake with close friends 

And then there was the time when the Armstrong’s came camping with their kids. She was wearing a bathrobe. We sat around the table and talked about soap opera watching housewives draped in their bathrobes with hair curlers in their hair. We had so much laughter together.

Then it was that time when D. was busy picking up all the fallen branches around the property and enjoyed burning them so much that we nicknamed him the arsonist. These were the days! It was so much fun reminiscing the good times spent with our friends and families by the lake.

We have had a lot of enjoyment at our Muskoka property over the years.

It was well past 8pm and darkness had descended upon the lake. The temperature was falling fast so we took Florence with us to Sleep Inn and had a good night of sleep there.

R.T.
Bracebridge
Muskoka, Ontario