Sorry for the lack of posts, it has been the craziest of weeks, the last five days have been beyond busy. Weather has not cooperated at all, but we have trudged through and where possible we have things ready.

As you can see in this picture the lake has been very rough and churned up a lot of mud from the shore. We have had a busy day cleaning and preparing sites for the new seasonal guests, raking leaves, picking up sticks, and putting some fresh gravel on the sites. We still have some wet areas that are going to take a few days of sun to dry out.

The camp roads are in bad shape in some places, I even managed to get our work cart and trailer stuck in the road, to everyone’s delight.

We have received some new trailers, delivered by the RV lots to be placed on sites for customers, we do that with our tractor to do as little damage as possible, as the tractor has a very sharp turning radius. We have also removed some trailers to make way for new guests, but the fun really starts next week with many scheduled deliveries.

To day received the parts to replace the rear wheel bearing and axle on the second golf cart, I got to lube about 60 black tank valves in preparation for next weeks pump outs, we installed a new pump on the honey wagon, put out the park furniture, shuffled some picnic tables around, washed the golf carts, busy busy busy. But now we are less than 24 hours till opening! We are going out this evening for dinner with Bonnie and Rich, could be couple of adult beverages involved, just saying.

Woke up to a few flurries but no accumulation and 0 or 32 degrees, in either system it’s cold, the wind is blowing off the lake through the trees and it almost sounds like a freight train and the waves were crashing hard. I did a quick walk around the park to survey the sitting water, and while quite a bit is left the wind overnight has helped dry some areas, what I also discovered was I need more clothing on! A couple more layers and we are off to rake the playground area, it is covered in wood chips and just needs to have some spots filled in and a few annoying weeds pulled, after a couple of hours it looks good, we will add some more chips to a couple of spots later.

As we are seeing the sun peeking through, we plan on cleaning the comfort station, showers, wash rooms, and the laundry room, get scrubbed floor to ceiling and power washed down with hot water. Every thing gets wiped down, squeegeed, floors mopped. Waste receptacles, shower curtains, toilet paper, and a fan to dry the floors and we are good to go (even got Laurie’s approval), with the laundry room up and running we wash the wiping towels and pretty much call it a day. It has warmed up to a balmy 4 or 40 degrees and while cloudy, we are still getting a few sunny breaks. Hard to believe that we took the whole day to get through those projects.

I have a few touch up items to finish the washrooms and showers, a little chalking along the counters, sinks and showers and we should be good. Rich noted we may need to repaint the ceilings but that’s a project for much later in the season.

Tomorrow is looking reasonably good on the forecast so we are going to clean up around the office, store, and the community centre. There is furniture to go out onto common areas and the floor washed in the community centre as it has been the storage area for lots of things over the winter. With temperatures tomorrow to be in the 8 or 48 degree range it should feel a little better outside playing with the pressure washer