Another Week in the Lives

WHERE ARE WE? Rivers Provincial Park, Rivers Manitoba

Monday morning was the day to put the new Friends of Rivers Lake dock in the water.  Springland Manufacturing, a local company owned by long time Rivers residents, put it all together and delivered it and put it in the water for us.  The dock will make access to boats much easier for the disabled when we get it finished.  The Committee is pretty proud of the accomplishment!!!

I don't know why I decided to be the Incredible Hulk!!! LOL

My job today was to pickup the sponsorship sign from Brandon so it could be displayed at the site.  It just barely fit in the Jeep!!!

That pretty much filled up my whole day so I took a nice sunset picture of the finished product.

Today I had a little laugh.  We have a natural Manitoba grassland as part of our park and it is one of a rare few natural prairie grass areas left around.  Now I know we need to try to preserve these areas, but sometimes I wonder who decides what is more of a priority in the preservation process.  This boot brush showed up one day and I stopped to check out what it was for.  Apparently they think this thing will stop the spread of noxious weeds somehow.  A few things that don't make sense are:  1.  The weed seeds I brush off will be sitting there for the wind to pick up and blow all over the grassland. (But my shoes will be clean).  2. The trail is mowed every week with a mower that has been all over creation picking up noxious weed seeds and they are then spread all over the grassland.  3.  Not more than 50 feet from the sign is a large patch of Leafy Spurge which is one of the most hated noxious weeds around this area.  Control is by spraying or mowing.  The provincial park system has banned sprays, so only mowing will help.  Nope they are not doing that either.  So I just wonder what that little boot brush is going to accomplish, and I wonder how much money was squandered developing and implementing this ridiculous tax funded thing.  Rant over. lol

Our friends Jim and Marilyn are camping again this week.  Its nice to just slip over there and sit around their fire.  

Archie loves spending time with them too!!  He makes himself right at home.

This afternoon Michael and I stocked the wood boxes down in the seasonal area.  

Today we celebrated Dani's 16 Birthday.  We had presents and supper and a chit chat.  My goodness they grow up fast.  She is leaving on a trip to Mexico with her day in a couple days.  Have fun Dani.

We have some new little birds in the nest on our deck.  Two birds with one to hatch yet.  

On my trip to Strathclair on Wednesday, I spotted a moose out in a crop munching away.  They are such a majestic animal.

I stopped by Hamiota at Cj's on the Links for breakfast.  Riley was there to serve me.  They always have fun doing their jobs there.

In the afternoon, Winston and I did a couple of Manitoba Housing jobs.  We had to trim some trees around one of the houses in town.  I think we did a pretty good job.

And we finished hauling away all the trees from the manor this afternoon.  We always pick the hottest days to do that as well.

And Thursday came as Thursdays do...early.  I'm actually getting used to it.

We are starting to put a big hole in the second truck load of wood.  It won't be long and I will have to order more.  

My helper is always by my side.  He loves to go on Wood Wuns!!

I finally got all of the picnic tables that we used for the Hootenany put back where they belong.  This trailer makes the job easy.

Saturdays are our busy days and today was no different.  The girls had to work hard to keep the burgers, fries and ice cream going out the window.

Our Music in the Park guest was Shaya who entertained us along with her uncle Robin for the night.  The crowd loved her as usual.

After the music Sue and I took Archie for a run and saw our friend John Lepp out in his airplane spraying crops.  It must be a very tense job as there is no room for mistakes.

The aerial spectacle was followed by a pretty nice supper.

 Sunday was a good day after a busy weekend.  The ice cream freezer is empty so we had to put in an ice cream order today.  It will be delivered to Sheri on Monday.

A good day to put the feet up.  

And we have the kids tonight so Max makes sure his bedtime snack is Chocolate Ice Cream.  I sure wish we all could do that.   Good Nite!