Prairie Dog Blog

 

 

Here we is...at the lake.   Catherine taught this afternoon, but had to drive into Winnipeg to do it.  She was beginning to wonder what happened because nobody was calling her to sub.   All it took was for her to start and now she has three and a half more days!  Last year she was specifically asked for so often that she had to turn down a lot of jobs because she was overbooked.  She was really missing teaching and I guess that as a teacher, you start thinking about it more in September, when the children are going back to school. 

Me and Suzie the Wonder Dog stayed out here.  We got up after Catherine had left for the Big Smoke and started the day with the obligatory cheerio's (Suzie the Wonder Dog loves Cheerio's) and two cups of coffee.....just to get the body up to speed.   Then we cut the grass, er I cut and Suzie watched.  I went on my bike to the hardware to get some Tremclad paint to do some touch up on the new trailer and the old trailer. I bought a fresh can of WD-40......I use it so much around hear that I should get a holster for it!  I got up high enough to oil the antenna and now it works real slick.   I then hopped on me bike and peddled me ass over to the old trailer.  The phone started ringing....people wanting to see the old trailer and I suddenly remembered that I had put an ad in the paper to sell the old thing.  Three calls and one of them is coming out tomorrow......better touch up the paint....yahoo.  I hope we can peddle off...er sell the damn thing, it'll be a load off my mind.   They are closing the campground early this year, Oct. 2nd, and we also have to get the new trailer, er new to me trailer, winterized.   I am ready for it ...studied up, got the lists done, got the anti-freeze.   Have to do it on Sunday and we will be going back to Winnipeg on Sunday evening.  We will still be able to come out to the trailer, we just won't have hot or running water, but they have hot and running water in the washrooms.  We will bring small totes of drinking water (we have started doing that anyway).  We have decided to buy drinking water because the water both in Winnipeg, and in Gimli too, is let's just say it's spunky....it has taken on a taste of algae.   Winnipeg water is not treated at all, except for the addition of a bit of fluoride.   The city is spending a few million to upgrade the water treatment to get rid of the spunky taste (that happens every year at this time) and make the water drinkable year round.   Gimli water comes from an aquifer and it is just chock a block full of mineral and that makes it hard, very hard.      

They are sandbagging along the Lakeshore in anticipation of high water in the fall...fall storms, etc., it shouldn't affect our campground.   I guess that they are also concerned about the ice building up in the winter and backing up and piling on the shore and that way causing damage to the cottages.  

Well better get to bed.  Nitey nite.    Peace.