Thursday, 6 August 2015

Kicking Off Our (First) Vacation for 2015

We were on vacation from July 27th to the 31st but we did not leave for Crow Lake on the previous Friday as usual because I had tickets to the Stampeders/RedBlacks game. I even made my way onto the team's official photography!


See the third player from the left, wearing his helmet?  I'm one of the pixels in the row directly above his head. Pretty wild, eh? Great game, great time with friends, and a fine way to start a vacation.

We didn't go on Saturday morning, either. Instead, we made an appearance at Wiener-Paw-Looza.



There's no way to express this without sounding like we're stating the obvious but...The place was crawling with wiener dogs! And we got there just as the event started! You'll see the occasional walking sausage strutting around town, but to see them all "en masse" like that is pretty jarring. Got to watch your step!

I didn't take a lot of pictures while we were there, but the folks running the show sure did, so those of you on Facebook can take a gander at those here. The races must have been a blast.

THEN we left for Crow Lake.  And got busy shortly after arrival.

Even with a light across the street, the lower part of our property can get pretty dark in some areas at night so for a while now I've wanted to add solar lights in the more high-traffic areas. Nothing can take the romance out of a late, lakeside evening by the fire than a tumble down a flight of stairs, right? That little project has begun.



Made in China, and as we know, the Chinese ALWAYS make good st...No, wait...They actually don't. But so far so good with these. 


I quite like that picture, if I do say so myself, and it's my blog, so I do.

The first four are up, but in preparation for the completion of that project I've gone around and removed a bunch of the rounded knobs that were placed at the ends of all the railings.

Of course, that couldn't be as simple as it sounds. Some were screwed in, some were glued down, some were stapled, some were nailed...Gadzooks...It shouldn't have required six tools to accomplish, but there you have it.

We did a little shopping early in the week before guest began to arrive. I'll get to that next.