A Story for the end of Summer ...
The Song , See You in September was a 1950s Billboard hit by the Tempos . It perfectly summed up what I said to my friends as my family got ready to pack the car for our summer vacation at Woodland Beach on southern Georgian Bay -- an hour and a half north of Toronto. Woodland was my go-to vacation spot. My mother was so determined to get the family out of the city, she'd rent a cottage each year, get my siblings, load up on groceries, and off we'd go. My father would drop everyone at the rented cottage, unload the car, leave, and wouldn't return until our rental was finished. As I may have indicated in previous stories, my father was a little different and most definitely not a cottage guy... "he'd wear a 3-piece suit to a picnic". Cottages in the 1950s weren't very well equipped -- outhouses and pots under the beds were common. Somehow, they worked. It was simply part of going to the cottage, and it was a great time to get togethe...