I MISS GETTING MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED

With living this life that Dan and I live.  Our life is really chopped up into 4 small segments.  

 Summer consists of living on board our boat.  Ideally, from our June 1st launch on through our September 30th pullout. 

Fall is October into November and is spent in our little condo with work weekends on the boat.  

Winter is our life down in Texas, living in our trailer from early November through to late March.

Spring is spent back in the condo from early April through May, with weekends working on boat projects and living on the boat out at the hangars.  

Each of these segments are not very long and therefore don't give you much time to get deeply involved in anything.   I do have one project that I am getting more deeply involved in down in Texas and that is the "Paradise Park Press", our little local park news letter that we publish once a month. 

The projects on the boat have kept me involved in re-design, upholstery and canvas sewing over the last 15 years of this boat restoration, but now we are pretty well done.  We still have maintenance projects in the spring and fall, but in the summer I seem to have a real lull.  I love spending the summer on the boat, but I need to find a passion or hobby to involve myself in for the summer months.  



THIS SUMMER SEEMS VERY BORING

WEEKEND VISITORS

We had our oldest son Jim and his wife Rachelle and their fur baby Bijou on board this weekend.  The weather and winds were perfect for a change. 

We went for a wee cruise and did some swimming off of the boat.  It took Bijou a while to get used to this jumping off of the boat thing. 

But in the end, Bijou thought that it was all really neat.

When we headed back in Bijou, was tuckered right out, resting her head on the walk around.  

Back in port we Bar-B-Qued and had a nice visit.

IT WAS A GREAT TIME

LOVE BIRDS

We have had so many geese in the harbour this year.  We figure about 7 breeding pairs, each with on average 5 goslings.  As Canada geese mate for life and are said to return to where they were born, to have their young, that should be a lot of geese next year.  

We are wondering about one of the pairs of geese that do not have a brood of goslings this year.  The discussion here in the harbour is, that there are all kinds of possibilities that may have contributed to this.  They may have found each other too late and tried to mate too late in the season?  They may have had a brood that were destroyed by predators?  One of them may be sterile?  Then there is always the possibility that they are "Gay"?

“In geese you may find a very strong homosexual bond between two male geese who behave like a “mating pair” even though they cannot copulate.  They always forget that the other refuses to be mounted and they try again every spring.  Each behaves in a perfectly normal male way and if he could speak he would say, “I love my wife very much, but she’s definitely frigid”…..   

Psychology Today.  

As male and female Canada Geese are identical in appearance, just a very slight difference in size, it is difficult to tell if these are a male and female, or two males.  Either way they are certainly pair bonded, and are always together.  Maybe we will see them again next year, if they survive, the long and treacherous journey they have ahead of them. 

I THINK ALL LOVE IS WONDERFUL  

THE ANNUAL GIMLI, ICELANDIC CELEBRATIONS

In the area around the local fishing village of Gimli, and all the way up and down the western shore or Lake Winnipeg, we all look forward to the ISLENDINGADAGURINN. 

 

It is an annual celebration of the Icelandic heritage of the area. And a grand excuse for a party.  And party we do.  
Below is the year, we decorated Thunderbird as a Viking ship.  
 

We won first prize too!

It is held every year on the first weekend in August.  It is a long weekend, and always a great weekend.   


WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.  

 

  

 

Icelandic Festival of Manitoba - Islendingadagurinn

HERON IN THE HARBOUR

We have a Heron back in our harbour again.  

 

  I haven't seen one since last year.  

I'm so glad to see one.  They are facinating to watch.  Their dead slow deliberate movements as they fish so intently.  

This is one of the joys of living so closely with nature.  Dan got these pictures at 6:00 am this morning.  

I LOVE LIVING WITH NATURE  

 

JUST A LITTLE CRUISE AND A DIP IN THE LAKE

My Internet access has not been very consistent lately, so you will have to forgive the lack of regular posts.  So, whats up?  We have had some good weather and some bad weather, like the Internet nothing consistent.  

We had a pelican cruising the harbour one morning, until Sea-Enna started barking and it soon departed.  

We had a nice visit with our Grandson Blake and his girlfriend last week.  She is a very sweet girl and I am so happy for him.  
 

At another time when the weather was nice we cruised just outside the harbour for a swim.  I have become quite fond of what is known as "Tower Beach", or "Dog Beach", just south of the water tower. 

This is where we can pull in nice and close to shore (weather and winds permitting) and I can swim, wash my hair in the nice soft water of the lake, and generally relax.  

Sea-Enna can run on the beach, and in and out of the water.  She loves it.  
 

THIS IS LIFE AT THE BEACH.