It’s Monday morning and the heavy equipment is here, the work on the beach access is really happening. It has been put off for a few weeks and today is the day it happens, truck loads of rock a excavator, big loader, dump trucks, and a Bobcat lots of big boy toys. But as we head down to the lake this morning the lake seams pretty rough, I will assume from the weekend storms and there doesn’t seem to be any beach at all.

But today is our day off so we are heading to London and a Costco to restock for a week or two. We find that the meat selection is so good there, and we still seam to buy a fair bit in bulk even if it’s just snacks the savings are substantial over some of the local chain stores. This week the pork loins were on sale so we bought one and sliced it into pork chops and we picked up some New York strip steaks, not on sale but so nice and huge we will split one and I do love a good barbecued steak now and then.

We also picked up a couple of potted plants for Bonnie as we were there, she needed a couple more for their living space above the store and office. The biggest disadvantage to this area is your an hour and a half from almost everything, London, Kitchener, or the US Boarder so the trip to Costco ends up being a four hour excursion not the end of the world but eats up the best part of the day and makes it difficult to get my ice creams home….I know first world problems. 🙂

So we land back at the coach and Laurie is taking care of putting everything away, slicing up the pork loin and of course I have to go check on what is happening at the lake access, and there is the excavator in the water placing the concrete blocks as a retaining wall, I still just find it amazing the power and the grace a good operator of a piece of equipment can show. Picking up a half ton block placing it position and then just nudging it into position with such ease.

The day has been bright and sunny, although the temperature remains cool the high was 14 or 60 degrees and still a little breeze off the lake. As we had picked up a huge cesar salad at Costco and we were going to barbecue pork chops for dinner Laurie suggests inviting Richard and Bonnie for dinner. The breeze is dropping off and so is the temperature so they accept our offer of dinner but suggest we eat at there place so it’s a date 7pm and I’m cooking pork chops for our bosses, now as every one knows pork over cooked is the driest toughest thing in the world to eat so I need to be on my game with the chops!

Well dinner was a success, we had a great evening with Richard and Bonnie, they have an amazing living space with a huge outdoor space with fireplace tv dinning area, lounge area all under cover but open to see the south end of the park and the lake to the west. We had cocktails on the deck area but eat inside, and the chops were cooked perfectly if I say so myself. The evening was very informative as we got to know our bosses better and I think they felt more comfortable telling us their plans for the park in the future as well as their new undertaking at the Maple Grove Resort which they plan to expand to nearly 500 sites as they transform it. As we had back to the coach it’s nearly 11 o’clock but what a great night and busy day it has been.

Well Friday night security checks were uneventful with a dry cool evening, a number of campfires but some of the usual suspects are missing this weekend. As crazy as it seems while the weekends mean Laurie is busy in the store and office they are usually much slower for me as we really try not to be noise or move any machinery on the week end with all the kids and traffic in the park.

This morning I ventured off to Goderich to the farmers market, Miss Laurie wants some rhubarb to make a crisp, and I always love to go and look for treats at a market, a fellow has to take care of that sweet tooth. So rhubarb, some peppers, a jar of relish, and oh yeah some butter tarts and all is well. For our America family butter tarts are a staple here in Ontario, the can be made plain or with raisins, walnuts, pecans, the butter filling can be runny or solidified, totally your individual choice, mine are runny with pecans because that is how my dad liked them so that was how my mom made them and of course the pastry has to melt in your mouth as well…there is even a butter tart tour across Ontario same as the bourbon tour in Tennessee…well the same but different….lol

Saturday I will finish the washing of the pool deck, and wash all the lounge chairs in the pool area. It’s early Saturday morning and I can see the pool that was crystal clear on Friday has started to become cloudy, while Richard is not back till Sunday I know that we need to check the chemicals in the pool. So I muddle my way through it and realize the chlorine is very low so I start chlorine pump to add as I continue to finish off the cleaning. It is a sunny morning but still quite cool only about 10 of 52 degrees with a breeze off the lake again today.

The whether report is thunderstorms in the afternoon, it looks like for once we are going to be spared the heavy storms as they are passing through just south of us. Looks like Port Huron / Sabrina are getting slammed big time, while we can hear lots of thunder we are just catching the edge of the storm. So a couple hours of rain and we appear to be past the worst of the whether so Saturday night could get a little noisy after every one being coupled up this afternoon with not much else to do but drink…I know have been in the same situation myself…just saying

So a security check at 9:30 made it appear like it could be a tough night…lots of campfires…and lots of people…with lots of music and noise. But as luck would have it at about 10:30 the rain came back…for once I’m thinking this might be a good thing, and as I went out for the 11 o’clock check only a couple of groups left and everything was breaking up…nice another quiet Saturday night.

Sunday was a day of questions when will the pool be open, when will the beach access be open to which I have no solid answer yet. Richard is back this morning, it is a sunny morning but that cool breeze off the lake still keeps it chilly. So today is my pool training day, with the official start to daily pool maintenance. The pool will be open in two weeks for the Fathers Day weekend so now I have to keep the pool cleaned, and stable for the next two weeks. We will also start the heater so it is warm for opening which again will change the chemical balance of the pool. So step by step through all components, cleaning of the filters, vacuuming the pool testing the chemicals, recording all the info into the log book. Simple enough but we are dealing with the Health board of Ontario so every thing must be recorded and documented and if you can believe this when we open I have to check the chemical levels every two hours…looks a lot of pool time for me this summer…

And as every Sunday afternoon ends it is pump out time, and as disgusting as that my sound it really is not that bad…any one who RV’s deals with a black tank every few days, no different only it’s once a week and involves forty or fifty black tanks…not a real big deal