Happy Father's Day Harvey

To a Great

Dad,

Poppa,

G-Pa,

Grandpa

and Husband

What is it? What do you do with it?

This is the algae that has accumualted on Lake Pelletier this spring. It was all over the lake but the southwestern winds seem to blow it to our end. I have never seen it this bad in many years and it is really disgusting. You can see a dead fish in picture #2, and a dead beaver was found near this as well. I am not sure about the beaver as he may have died of natural causes but who knows.

I have heard a lot of different senarios on the algae such as it is caused by not a hot enough spring when the ice melts. I have heard not enough oxygen in the water.

Some say a good rain will remove it, others say lightening will destroy it too.

But right now it just sits and looks at me through my front window. My grandchildren want to play in the water, the boat gets pretty scummy and we complain a lot.

My thought is maybe when you fiddle with the natual ecosystem of a lake by digging up the south area where all the birds, fish and animals live, when you dig out part of the lake to make a canal into where new homes are to be built , you are disturbing the natural cleaning process the lake does and this is just the start of the destruction of Lake Pelletier. Don't say we did not warn YOU!

Gravel Works

The 10 yards of gravel arrived and it is big. Ask me for 10 yards of cloth and I can tell you exactly how much it will be. How do they determine that a big pile of gravel is 10 yards? It must be a man thing.

For 36 years we have been working to improve the cabin. Will it never be finished? One thing ends and another starts.

Now we cut out the grass and edge it up nicely so the gravel will look like a real driveway.

Celine's Ball Game - WON!

Celine catching

Celine batting

Just two catchers ..the young and the old

Sat afternoon in Winnipeg

Gord and Shannon have not had much luck growing the sod in their small back yard, due to not much sun and 2 little dogs, so they are biting the bullet and saying goodbye to grass and hello deck and paving stones. Harvey and Gord are busy getting it going and look like they know what they are doing......but do they???

Whatta Country!

Cloudy, freezing temperatures, 2 days of rain, the sun comes out and the temp soars to 13 degrees, and then the temp drops to 8 degrees and the hail hits. The hail was only pea size but came down in buckets and we ran to cover plants, hide plants under chairs, throw blankets over biggerr plants and move vehicles to safer places.....and all of this June 6th and 7th. Like I said.."What a country"

One mourning dove has a nest and babies in our eaves, I wonder how she made out.

Stalking the Baltimore Oriole

This is what he should look like.....(stolen from the net)
But below is all I can catch
You will need to click to enlarge and then look closely in the middle of the photo


But in searching I also stopped to talk to Ruby the Robin who is nesting low in our front yard.
(Pictures to follow of her children)

and a quick "Hello" to Sidney Swallow



You will notice he just lives in a cabin, not a beautiful condo like Catherine's birds.....but he says the view is better.