Some Flowers and "Music in the Park"

WHERE ARE WE? Rivers Provincial Park, Rivers Manitoba

It was a busy day at Cj's today.  Saturday is "Music in the Park" day and as the weather becomes nicer and people realize that we are already a month into summer, the crowds will become greater.  With more people, there is more ice cream to scoop and hamburgers to cook!!!  Before we get to that, I had a couple projects going on.  Walkers Greenhouse delivered a lot of our plants the other day and our friend Linda, who is a green thumb, helped us place them in strategic areas on the golf course.  In a month or so the golf course will be one big flower garden and as long as I remember to water them, it may stay nice for a long time.

Another of my projects involved our fry cutter.  If you remember we go through about 400 lbs of potatoes a week and our old fry cutter needed some new blades.  I did a quick calculation and I figure it has cut about 25000 lbs of potatoes since it was replaced.  That's a lot of spuds.  Anyway it arrived from Amazon and I put it together on the cutter.

We use only Russet potatoes and we cut them into our empty ice cream pails, then rinse them thoroughly before they go through the blanching process which is precooking them for 3 minutes and then letting them sit before actually cooking them for the customer.  

That was about it for us today.  Sheri sent me a picture of the Cj's on Ice crew that worked in the rink with her all winter.  Notice that they are actually "on the ice"!  A great group of girls that all worked hard to make that venture work.  Most of this group work at Cj's Snack Shack with us for the summer as well.  We made Sheri get her own group of employees for Cj's on the Links and we took the trained ones!!!  Sorry Sheri! 

Our daughter Sheri in the middle

As I said earlier, tonight was "Music in the Park" and we had some different voices on stage tonight.  Our friends Jeff, Robin, and Shaya came ready to entertain.  They were joined by another local entertainer for a few songs as well.  This is exactly what my vision was for this event.  A place where people who either haven't or don't perform on a regular basis to come to jam with some seasoned veterans.  I would love to see someone make it big in the music world and say that they got their start at Cj's "Music in the Park"!!  It was a great night!! 

And just as importantly is the entertainment factor. We love to see a crowd of people come with their lawn chairs and just take in the music for a couple of hours.  We have lots of regulars and every week we get more people returning.  Lots of the campers come as well and they love hanging out with us on a Saturday night.  Some campers actually have returned here just for the music!!!!  I think the ice cream has something to do with it as well.  Good Nite!!!