Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Feels Like Fall....

The whole family went back out to Nordegg again this past weekend.  This time around we took both trucks, so that we could bring our trailer... and the new ATV.  We headed out right after work on Friday afternoon.  It was about 6:00PM by the time we were fueled and on the highway.  This put us into Nordegg around 9:00PM.  Of course at this point in the season it is already getting dark by this time in the evening.  To make matters worse, it was also raining... rather heavily.
We backed the trailer into the driveway in the rain and quickly put down all the jacks, put out the slide, and plugged in to power.  With no opportunity to sit and relax around a fire, we all turned in early.
It was very cold, wet and muddy when I got up and went outside on Saturday morning.  But the sky was clear and the sun was coming out.  Hailey and I unloaded the new ATV from the back of the truck and rode it over to the storage yard, where we picked up our other unit.  By the time we got back with the two units it was getting partly overcast, and never did get any warmer than about +16C all weekend.  It definitely had a feel of fall in the air.  Later in the afternoon we took both ATV's out and explored a bunch of the trails around town.  Hailey and I had been on most of them before but this was the first time out for the other three girls.  By mid afternoon we headed into town and had a late lunch in the Pick and Shovel Restaurant in the Frontier Lodge.  I tried fishing a few times over the weekend but the trout just weren't rising and nothing was interested in my dry flies.  In hindsight I should have probably tried a wet fly, but I didn't have one with me.
We had an evening fire and a late supper that night and it stayed dry.  But it was very cool again over night and I suspect the the temperature probably dropped down to only +3 or +4C.  On Sunday we did a little more trail riding before getting packed up for the trip home.  We put the big ATV back into storage and loaded the little one back onto the truck.  We had to hit the road by about 2:30 so we could make it back to Edmonton in time for Margarit and I to go to a show.
It was a little frantic as we pulled up to the house and unpacked the essentials.  Margarit had a quick shower while I ran over to the shop and unloaded the ATV.  We got over to Century Park and caught the LRT to the Jubliee Auditorium at about 7:00 and arrived just in time for the start of the k.d.lang concert.  I was really impressed with her singing voice, but rather disappointed in the set list.  She had a seven piece band and they played mostly her Ingenu album from the 1990's, while ignoring all of her older stuff.  That older stuff, with more of a country twang, includes all my favorites and she didn't do any of them.
We stopped for a bite to eat after the show and got to bed about midnight.  Just in time for the start of another busy week....
Not much happened out at the property this week.  The backfilling around the foundations continued and some gravel is being spread in the crawl space.  Some conrete footings were poured for a gate.  Mostly we are just waiting for the framing crew to get started.  Sounds like that won't be until the end of the month and needless to say we are getting a little antsy.  We won't make it back out to Nordegg next weekend but hopefully when we return on the long weekend, things are getting underway.



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