We Love Weekends!

I love weekends!

On the weekend, everyone is relaxed and happy and has lots of time to go house shopping with their Realtor!

I’m happy to hang out with my clients on weekends and love meeting people at open houses. Now that summer is on its way, there will be lots of longer weekends. There are the official long weekends, and there are people taking Fridays off or taking off early on Fridays! So, along with everyone else, I say “TGIF!”

Working on the weekend is great when you love what you do! And, when you have the flexibility to take time off during the week. I love it when I get to go fishing during the week, and I don’t have to “take the day off”.

Give me a call and we’ll hang out this weekend, it’s going to be beautiful!

Family Getaway at Home in Newmarket

I had to work on a Sunday, as I often do, being a Realtor. But, I piled the family into the van and we all went on a beautiful drive in the country and then enjoyed a peaceful walk in the woods. We were only gone for a few hours, but we had an amazing afternoon retreat, reconnecting with each other and with nature.

From Newmarket, you can take a short drive or a longer drive and spend time in one of the many conservation areas and York Regional Forest tracts like this one. 

We extended our drive all the way up to Lake Simcoe, to Willow Beach, where we saw the incredible number of ice fishing huts that dot the lake in the winter. We also drove past our fishing spot on Cook's Bay, a little closer to home and not quite so busy.

Living in Newmarket, you can enjoy a good life in a great detached house in a quiet and safe neighbourhood with every amenity nearby, and you'll also be close to nature. 

TGIF! Time to get away from it all -right here in Newmarket

Another Friday, and the 400 is a parking lot. Tons of people are all heading north from Toronto to get away from it all. Heading to a lake, to the woods, to a cottage, a cabin, a trailer, a tent, they just want to have some space and fresh air away from the city.

Another bunch of people are at home in Newmarket, enjoying a big backyard, maybe a pool, maybe a walk in the park. They're going to the lake tomorrow, fishing, or to the beach for a couple of hours after going to the Saturday Farmer's Market in the morning. Lake Simcoe is just up the street. And, maybe tomorrow night, they'll go to a game in Toronto, or meet with some friends. It's not that far.

A weekend at home can be as good as a holiday.

Thinking about getting away from it all in Newmarket?

Give me a call. I'll help you find a home that gives you a weekend getaway every weekend, without the traffic. 

Closer to the Action

Have I mentioned how great it is to live in Newmarket? :-)


The best ice fishing I've had so far has been right here in my backyard (so to speak) on Lake  Simcoe at Virginia Beach. Non-stop action. 


I spent last weekend fishing in the Belleville area at the fishing derby on Big Gull Lake. It was a nice trip, good fun with friends at a cottage. But, not one fish was caught by our whole group. 


Living in Newmarket, we're also very close to great skiing. It's no big deal for some of the kids in my younger daughter's class to take a day off to go skiing. And, in the high school parking lot, I frequently see kids piling into vehicles with skis and gear in the back.


Every season has its perks. We're a bit closer to the action here. 

Gone Fishing/ Gone Hunting

Nothing is better than getting outside and heading out on to a lake or into the woods to maintain balance and sanity in your life.

Working all day and into the night, weekdays and weekends, looking at a computer screen and at paper documents and dealing with people on the phone, in person, and electronically, with a focus on accuracy and diplomacy can be taxing. It can be thrilling and exasperating. Numbers and details, discussions and deals follow me into my sleep. 

To clear my head and give my body a workout, I retreat to nature. This time of year I let my beard grow, put on my camouflage and blaze orange gear and head to the woods. I'm hunting, but I'm also hiking, bird watching, and meditating.

In the summer, and later in the winter, I can go fishing and ice-fishing.

There are plenty of opportunities for hunting and fishing within a reasonable distance from Newmarket, so it's easy to take a day off and be back in the evening with fresh air in my lungs and a fresh outlook.

Fishing near Newmarket

I took the family fishing yesterday.

We have a little boat with a motor and a mini-van with a hitch. We have a good spot to put the boat into the water on Lake Simcoe just up the street. (Well, about 17km up Leslie.)

Living in Newmarket has its advantages: from our house to the lake in less than half-an-hour!

When fishing with 3 females, it’s good to have a spot with a porta-potty. And, with young female family members, it’s good to have a spot near home so that you don’t spend more time in the car than on the lake. That spot is at the bottom of Cook’s Bay in Keswick.

In no time at all, we were on the lake and catching fish. Catching and catching! I would hook a worm and hand the rod over to one daughter and then the other would be handing me a rod with a fish on it. Hook a worm, then release a fish, hook, release, and so on: Non-Stop Action!

We kept 15. A good large-mouth bass, several perch and some sunfish. Victoria, my 11-year-old, counted her catches: 30!

I cleaned the fish when we got home and soon they were in the frying pan. Talk about fresh fish!

These are the family memories my girls will cherish forever: Dad taking us out on the boat and hardly getting a chance to fish because we’re catching a fish on every cast, and then Dad fries up our catch for supper, and the blue lake and the green shoreline under the bright blue sky and our beautiful home in Newmarket.

We won’t remember the sunburn.