THE @!#$%&* INTERNET

Aha!!  I am finally back on line.  I have been trying for days to get on line to check my banking and do my blog.  Not that I have that much to say. 

There is nothing much going on around here with all the off and on rain we have been having.  Even the steadfast regulars like Bob and Keith have given up and gone home. 

I wanted to go cruising on Tuesday to watch the swimmers that crossed the lake.  That would have been great, but it was the first really nice day with no fish flies, so Dan insisted on getting the roof sealant on.  He has been trying to get this job done for a couple of weeks now and hasn't been able to get a break in the weather.  

THAT NEW SEALANT SEEMS TO BE WORKING

 

IT'S ISLENDINGADAGURINN LONG WEEKEND

 It's the August long weekend again, and our daughter Elizabeth is on board for the weekend.

  We are flying our Icelandic flags in honour of Islendingadagurinn.   Normally we would be taking a little cruise to Gimli on this day, to take a look around at the Icelandic Festival, but the winds are up and it's not exactly ideal cruising weather. 

  

 So I guess we will stay in port and find other things to amuse ourselves.  We are going over to my daughter Wendy's  trailer in the campground, for dinner tonight.  

MAYBE THE WINDS WILL DIE DOWN FOR TOMORROW. 

THE WEEKEND, BOATING KAOS

BOUNDARY CREEK MARINA

If you look at the aerial view of our marina, you will see (in the upper right area of the photo) a large parking lot.  That lot is used by some of us, but mostly by casual boaters launching and pulling their boats on the weekends.  Our boat is quite close to that lot.  It's the second boat in, on the big elbow bend in the creek. 

So we have a very good view of the usually empty  and serene parking lot and boat launch.  But come the weekend it becomes very entertaining.  We get to watch the endless array of boating errors right outside our back door.  
We get to sit there, with our coffee in the morning, and watch boats launched with a bowline that is far too short and slips out of someones hands and the unmanned boat is now floating loose in the harbour.  Or all of the myriad of boats that wont start and the paddling, that must then ensue. That is, if they remembered to bring paddles.  

Which this one didn't and had to borrow a kayak paddle from Donna Hardy of JADIA  (just in the nick of time before it hit their boat).  Then of course there is always the forgotten boat plug and the inevitable panic and hilarity that follows that.  Then in the evening we get to sit on our back deck with a drink and watch the sunburned and exhausted boaters reverse the earlier processes.  Lining up to pull their boats. 

THE LONG WEEKENDS, OF COURSE, ARE THAT TIMES  TEN!

A DAY ON THE LAKE

We had a lovely day on the lake yesterday.  Sunny, warm and calm.  

 

We took off around 11:30, and we headed to Gimli.  Dan felt the old girl needed a bit of a run, having just sat in port quite a bit with all this unsettled weather.  

It was a lovely cruise, but we didn't stop in Gimli, just cruised on through.  

We settled in on the south side of Willow Island.  

I washed my hair and Sea-Enna had her swim.  

We had a few drinks, and Bar-B-Qed some Hot Dogs and enjoyed the day.  

 IT WAS A PERFECT DAY TO OWN A BOAT

COMPANY ON BOARD

Dan's Brother Dwight and Maggie Colvin were supposed to come for a visit yesterday along with Bonnie and Brad.
Well due to an eye infection, Maggie and Dwight couldn't make it, but Bonnie and Brad did show up.   

Dan has been working of late, prepping our roof for a leek seal treatment.  If it weren't for the fish flies and the rain he would have been done by now.  

 So, instead we had to contend with a few leaks during the constant rain.  

Although it rained all day we still had a nice visit. 




THIS WAS A VERY PLEASANT MID-WEEK SURPRISE.  

BOTH AN INTERESTING AND BORING WEEKEND

It was a very windy weekend here in BCYC.  Friday was not bad, but Saturday and Sunday, the winds were quite lively, so none of us were out there on the lake, which is a good thing because of the  tornadoes that touched down on lake Winnipeg, which I'm sure most of you saw on the news. 

Being stuck in port is no fun unless you can do some puttering around on your boat, which we did a little of.  

But with the rains that came with those winds, we were all often driven on board.   (or indoors as the land lubbers would call it.)  

Once on board, with the Internet down, and the satellite TV kaput.  I was so bored I ended up defrosting and cleaning my fridge.   

NOW THAT IS BORED! 

SORTING THROUGH OLD PHOTOS

This is a chore I have been putting off far to long. This summer I have brought two large containers of old pictures, out here to the lake, to work on sorting through them so that I can download them onto the computer and distribute, access to them, to all the relevant people, then hopefully ditch the hard copies.

What a job. I ended up with my mom's old albums and photos and slides and when going through them I realized that she had inherited a lot of her mothers photos as well.  There are a lot here that I don't think I will ever identify, but I'll give it a good try. 

The first chore is to sort them into decades, then hopefully down to a specific years.  If we can identify a few names and a year, I think that is as close as we are going to get with the oldest ones. 

Today was very helpful, as I had a visit from my cousin Jill and my Uncle Harold.   We were all hurled down memory lane as we started looking at some old pictures and Uncle Harold was able to put some names to some of the people that I could not identify.  And Jill was thrilled to see a photo I have of her Grandmother's Wedding that I happen to have among my Grandmother's (her sister's) photos.  

 

It was a wonderful visit and we will have to do this again soon, with the focus being on the photos, and not just as an after thought.  

Well this has certainly given me some incentive to GET ON WITH IT.  I guess it's not just something to do on a cool or rainy day.  

THE SUMMER IS FLYING BY AND I HAVE NOT MADE MUCH HEADWAY ON THIS PROJECT.