Memorial Day Weekend

Our first weekend of the summer. You can never remember everything, but at least you would think we would remember the life vests and paddles to get across the lake. Luckily for us there was a boat next to our canoe with an 8hp chained to the boat, but had two oars and life vests. We borrowed the oars and vests to paddle across and then returned them when we came back to pick up the rest of our party. Thank you to whom ever this boat belongs.

Wow, what great weather we had. It was 78 in the shade. Of course our thermometer is about twenty years old so who knows for sure. Maybe Dan will get that weather station setup soon.

Our 15hp motor started acting up, so our little Ian (3yrs old) was a little disappointed since we couldn't go "fast" with our backup 5hp.

The bugs weren't bad at all at the cabin, surprisingly. While we were unlocking the canoe, however, we were over run by mosquitoes. There were more white sox on the lake than mosquitos by our cabin. That was odd.

We were able to clean up the "front yard" and decided we really need a mower to keep some of the brush down. So we are going yard saling this weekend. Next time we go up, I'll hopefully get the shower installed. The trade off is that we loose one sleeping birth. I'll take the shower, thank you.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend also.

Marty

Redshirt Lake is out :)

jim said...

As of Wednesday May 17th the ice is out on Red Shirt! I have talked to a flying service located on Lake Hood about flying to Red Shirt. His business is Alaska Guide and Air Service, Joe Schuster. He has two Beavers and will fly round trip from Anchorage for around $500.00. His phone number is 907-248-3181. His beaver will hold up to 6 people, possibly you can arrange to share rides. Jim