We're taking a day off!

Well, the place is just about empty. Today is the last day for our seasonal campers, so there are only about five trailers left in the park. And those should be gone by the end of the day today.

We don't get very much opportunity to explore this part of Saskatchewan, despite the fact that we spend the whole summer here. So today, we're going to hop in the little blue car and go for a drive to another regional park. Just to have a look and see how they do things and hopefully go for a hike.

We had bought a new Garmin GPS unit a couple of months ago but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It comes with free unlimited map updates, so I got it out of the box and figured I would do some updating. But the file is huge and so we need to find an unsecured high speed connection to download it. Again noticing the limits of our cellular connection here.

With all the trailers gone, we can now shut the water off for the season and complete the winterizing of the bathrooms. We've got one done already...four more to go. I've got a few more areas of grass to cut one last time, and then I can do the maintenance on some of our machinery and get that put away for the winter. The kitchen building is almost all boarded up.

The motorhome is close to being ready to go. I've ordered a fan clutch that I want to install before we go, and then we can bring Sherman down to one of the sites near our house so that we can start to move in. It'll be so much more convenient this year having Sherman here so that we can take our time getting the house shut down for the winter. Last year, we had to do everything on the very last day and it was a bit rushed.

Oh! And I was checking all the fluids and I filled up Sherman's windshield washer bottle. I went to snap the lid on the bottle and the bottle shattered! 20 years old and I guess the plastic was as brittle as can be. Problem is, I can't seem to find the exact replacement. I can find a universal replacement, but it's half price in the U.S., so I'll wait until we get down there to replace it.

Sept 20th last year.

Sept 20th this year. 

I had thought that fall was a little earlier this year, but when I compared the pictures it's actually about the same. Except that it looks like last year had a few less clouds in the sky!

Anyhow, we're off to enjoy our day. Hope you enjoy yours too!

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