It's a good thing we have Sherman with us.

There are two water systems here at the park. One is used for trucked in municipal water, and it feeds the concession building, the house trailer, and the cookshack, as well as an outdoor tap for the campers. The other system is for the lake water and it supplies non-potable water to the washrooms and campsites.

Well normally, the first thing we do here is get the municipal water supply turned on to the house trailer because that's where we have been living the last four summers.

And this year, we did the same thing. The system worked fine in the concession and cookshack, but there was no water at all in the house trailer.

Huh?

This has never happened before. The only thing we can figure is that there was some residual water left in the line and it is still frozen. Apparently they had a very deep freeze in these parts this past winter. So we've been going in three or four times a day and turning on a tap to see if there is any water, but nothing yet.

So it's a good thing we have Sherman with us.

The only thing that it affects right now is that we can't do any laundry. Hopefully the line will thaw out by this weekend or we will be doing it by hand.

Another beautiful spring day yesterday, great for working outside.

This looks like a good job for a 25 year old!

The tree trimmers are done now, but they sure left a lot of big logs behind. Steve (the new manager) and I do pretty good with them, but after a couple of hours it's time to do something else and let the muscles recover.

The exercise feels great though!

Meanwhile, Ruth and Jo (Steve's wife) have been doing leaf cleanup. No pictures today, but we'll do some more before and after pics for you in tomorrow's update. It sure is getting done a lot faster with four people instead of just the two of us!

It's interesting that we're seeing some different birds here this spring that we have not seen here in past years.

A western grebe. Never seen one here before, and there are a few of them around.

Some of you have been asking about our owls, and we haven't seen them yet this season. The nest had pretty much disintegrated by the time we left last fall and now it's completely gone. Great horned owls generally don't build their own nest, they just take one over from another bird so it has likely moved on, which is a shame because we so enjoyed watching the babies grow up the past four years.

Taken this morning.

We've never seen our water level this high at this time of year. This is a good thing, although hopefully it doesn't get too high too soon! Normally the majority of the inflow comes in mid June when the snow melts in the mountains west of Calgary so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

Off to work... enjoy your day!

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