LEAP DAY

Dump day today.  Every Saturday during the winter.  Rejean went to the dump today while I blew snow.  I am getting very good at it.  I did it without supervision and I did a great job if I do say so myself.
The top photo is of the depths of Axe Lake in wood done by a local artist for Ron and Darlene.  It is quite the work of art.  My nephew Steve Pomerleau is doing something similar for clients of his.  It is very unique.
The bottom picture is of garbage on the road in front of our property.  A piece of tire right in the middle of the road.  I had to go and retrieve it before it caused damage to passing vehicles the other day.  Because our local dump does not take old tires, I have to find someplace to put it or use it around the property.  It is an ongoing effort to pick up the garbage people leave along out beautiful highway.  Makes me sad.

ANOTHER SMALL PROJECT DONE

We took the bbq into the garage to work on the burners and give it a good cleaning.  We strapped it to the loader on the tractor and it was easy to move it.
We replaced the burners and some other things as it was pretty rusted out.  These things are not built to last a long time.  It was difficult to separate the igniters from the burners as they were really rusty.  We got them replaced and I cleaned the outside and after a couple of hours it was back in place.
It was beautiful out today.  Nice and sunny and very warm.  We sat and had out wine in the sunroom for the first time this year.  If you sat in the sun, it was nice.

PIZZA

Coming from Windsor Ontario where they have the best pizza in the world, I have always had to settle with Pizzas up north  But I recently found Kim Kline in Thessalon who makes Pizza out of her house and it is really good.  I added some extra cheese and some extra ham and it was delicious.  It does fill the gap until I can get back to Windsor to have a real Pizza!!

MORE OF THE SAME

We went to Eliott Lake the other day to visit with Marilou.  It always surprises me the amount of snow they get.  But it could be said that there is no place to put the snow.  Anyway, the snow is pretty high around there.
I have been busy blowing snow with Rejean recuperating from his hernia operation.  I have been lucky that there hasn't been a lot of snow but I have had to blow the snow the last 3 times.  And each time he is out directing me and making sure I do it right.  He says that the next time he won't be there to direct me and I will be on my own.  No problem.  Looking forward to it.

GOT SNOW

I know you must be tired of hearing of all our snow but I know someplace in Southern Ontario it was 54 degrees on the weekend.  So here are some snow pictures just so you don't feel left out.
The top two were taken at the Trading Post that show the curls of ice and snow off the smaller building.  We had the same thing on our garage as you can see in the other photos.  It is the second time the snow has come off the garage roof this winter.  Usually it only happens once but we have had some heavy snow falls this winter so we are prepared for it to happen again.  I blame it all on my "Just Say Snow" stone.

BACK TO THE OLD GRIND

Yesterday and today were the days we took care of the trailers.  The snow had accumulated since early November and it was time.  We were lucky the top 2 feet or so was light fluffy snow and the heavy icy sections were underneath.  With the two of us working it didn't take too long.  You have to have the right kind of shovels for the job.
We took care of Rick's trailer yesterday in about an hour.  Today, we snowshoed down the trail to our trailer - good thing we had snowshoes on.  It was pretty deep.  When Rejean took his snowshoes off and took a step, he went in to his waist!!  We got ours done in a little over an hour and then took care of Andrew's trailer.
We took the road back...

ps - Rejean loved the Bon Aire and the beach.  He gave it a 9 out of 10 - which is pretty good!  I am sure there is another trip to St Pete Beach in his future.

BONUS VACATION

Headed down to St Pete Beach Florida for a little rest and relaxation and to get away from all the snow.  Our friends Roger and Ute were already down there staying at the Bon Aire and instead of telling them where to go and what to do, we decided to join them and show them first hand!  In other words, we kind of invited ourselves to join them on the first week of their vacation.  I had been telling them how great the Bon Aire and St Pete Beach was, they decided to give it a try.  It turned out to be a special place for Roger to ask Ute to marry him.  She said yes!!

We went out fishing on a five hour cruise out of Johns Pass.  What a perfect day it was!  The fishing wasn't that great but I did manage to catch a few including a beautiful orange fish (don't know the name of it) but I did go in for a kiss but noticed the TEETH at the last minute so I didn't quite make contact.  We were at the very front of the boat on a little platform away from the crowds at the side - there were 61 people on our cruise.  We had the best spot on the boat in my opinion.  On our way back to shore we were lucky to spot some dolphins in front of the boat and they quickly started swimming along  beside and just under the front of the boat.  It was thrilling!!!  It just made my whole trip to see them like that.  They swam with us for about 2 minutes but it seemed like forever.

We had amazing weather during our week - record temperatures - almost as hot as in November.  I took them to all my favourite restaurants and tiki bars and they just loved the Drunkin' Clam!!  We did miss the Bloody Mary Bar on Sunday at the Clam because we went fishing, but we did manage a dinner on our last nite for their delicious wings.

We enjoyed the amazing sunsets each evening with our glasses of wine or bottles of beer.  I never get tired of this view.

Until November...