A Month in Coles Notes

WHERE ARE WE? Rivers Provincial Park, Rivers Manitoba

Well I have had a lot of comments regarding my lack of posting lately.  It seems like once we get home our lives turn into the hum drum of running a burger joint.  We do see some interesting things along the way so this post is a photo dump of things we did in the last month.  I think I even forgot some things.  Well here goes!

Yes it is Thursday morning and our Pratts truck showed up a little after 6

 

Yup here it is!! Yawn!!!

 

Lots of stuff to put away plus 25 pails of ice cream

One of the things that is is the price of hamburger.  $22.00 per kilogram

Got the lawn tractor all serviced and ready to go

Sheri making gravy and getting ready to make hamburgers

Slushy and coffee machine set up ready to go.

I have been having some trouble with my solar controller so have ordered a new one.  Yes I could have got into trouble shooting but I wanted a controller that had a phone display so will get one of those.

Had a couple heavy duty heaters on this cord and in its worn out state it burned up the connections

One of the things I do around here is to go to the store and get supplies.  This is the list for today.

We got our 2 employee's in to get everything set up and work on prepping for opening day.  

We will start with Cream Soda Slushies

This is one of our managers Messy Mia!!! Do you know why we call her that??  Lol

We normally don't allow her to touch sharp knives because she waves them around while talking.

Our friends Jim and Marilyn dropped by for a visit.  They will be camping here lots this summer.

Anyone want to check out our menu!!  We have lots of neat things.  

And finally it is opening day!  120 days to go!!

These memory photo's keep popping up.  These people keep us sane and make our world go round.  We hope they might visit us sometime.

Also today was move in day for us to get parked in our Seasonal spot.

Archie immediately began gopher eradication.  Look at his black nose. 

Dani helped me a lot getting the golf course ready

Susan set up the camp spot

We have a nice view of the lake.

Archie likes the view too.

Dani and Sheri like to play games and they invite me.  I think I know why!!

Yep, Dani beats me every time!!!

And then a week went by and the Pratts guys were back.  Tim and Jason are the greatest delivery guys ever.

And there they go.  See you next week at 6 fricken AM!!!

We like to have fun with the dry ice that the ice cream is packed in. Just add water and you have lots of fog. 

We had a couple windy days with a lot of dirt moving around.  Manitoba is a windy place normally.

We had lots of campers on the weekends in May.

Archie and I go for walks a little differently here.  We go out on a gravel road and he walks and runs alongside the jeep.  He gets more exercise but I get less.

I happened to see the sun rise one of the cool mornings.  Don't often see this.

We played more games and yes I kept losing!!!

I helped our daughter Nikki move her trailer to the insurance place to have it repaired after she had a little mouse infestation.  They got into the insulation.  The only place that repairs these things is in Somerset Manitoba which is a 2 hour drive. 

We stopped at a neat little restaurant for lunch on the way home.  I always enjoy time with Nikki!!

Yup, more games and no wins for me!!!

We started Music in the Park again on Saturday nights.  Rob Holden entertained us the first night.  We have music every Saturday night for the rest of the summer

Our daughter Karalee's trailer brought to the park and we did some work on it before we will move it into her site for the summer.  It will be nice to have her around.

And of course I had to find time for Survivor 50.  It was a great season.

Another Thursday morning and some more dry ice.

We got Karalee all set up in her spot for the summer.  It will be nicer when the leaves get on the trees.

Jim and Marilyn showed up for their first camping trip of the season.  It was cool enough to be wearing jackets.

Archie likes to go belly deep in the lake after one of his runs.

We discovered a nest of Great Horned Owls in our yard at the lake.  Lots of people came to check them out.  Cute little fellows.  There were 3 little ones and mom and day. 

Baby

Baby

Dad

Sheri found us a neat little clock.  It is an ice cream shop!!!

Dani and I went on a little road trip doing some Manitoba Housing stuff and we stopped at a nice little restaurant.  We had some yummy soup and sandwiches.  It was fun to spend some time with her.

Our parking lot is filling up on the weekend and we are starting to get quite busy.

Later in the month we went and got all our kayaks.  We don't bring them to the lake too early because we have had a couple people almost perish in the cold water after capsizing in years gone by.  We wait for the water to warm up.

Archie made a heck of a mess in Sues craft tent while chasing a gopher.  He just doesn't quit.

Now that the chance of frost is lessened, we went and got our flower from Walkers Greenhouse.  They do a good job of them.

We had a truckload to take home.

Jim and Marilyn are back and Archie just hangs out with them.  They spoil him rotten.

We are slowly getting some things fixed up on the coarse.  This will be a bridge later.

On June 6th we had a violent storm go through the park and torrential rain along with violent wind and hail reeked havoc with our new flowers.  Although most of the ones that were flowering lost their flowers, we think most of them will come back.  Fingers crossed.

This was one of the victims

The hail brought down the leaves and the wind and rain plastered leaves all over the sides of vehicles.  About 5 pm the sun came out and the wind subsided and all went back to normal.

Sues craft tent took a bit of a beating.

Quite a bit of hail too.

And our tree lost a branch.

More flowers that got beat up.

This used to be pretty flowers.

Dani cleaned up some of the mess before we had Music in the Park.

This was the storm coming.

And the old boy was lifting a kayak and "crack!!"  Don't quite know what it is but I had to break out the crutches for a while.  I can't put any weight on the ankle.  Dr didn't help much other that give me Tylenol and tell me to get x-rays on Monday if it still hurts.  Thanks.  Until then I will hobble around for a few days.  As of writing this, I am actually a lot better.  Maybe it will heal itself.

And although we don't have an ocean and with an island in it, we still get nice sunsets.  Good Nite!!!