Holiday Break

I just returned from Six days and Five nights spent up at our cottage in Nordegg.  The weather was quite mild and we only saw a little fresh snow.  A very enjoyable break to say the least...!

We had two Christmas dinners with family, once at my Mom's place and once at ours.  Hailey had to work on Boxing Day, and I spent a couple of days at the shop working on kitchen cabinets and loading up some materials.

Anna and I headed out to Nordegg on December 28th with her two pet rabbits.  The other girls would come out with the rest of the menagerie the next day.  We stopped at the feed store in Leduc to pick up some oats and then continued on to the cottage.  It was late afternoon when we arrived and we got things unpacked and got a fire going.

The next morning it was sunny and clear with only a light breeze.  As we were not expecting the others until late in the day, Anna and I decided to take a drive up to Abraham Lake.  We were hopeful that the wind wouldn't be too bad and that the lake would be frozen over so that we could check out the ice bubbles.

The lake was indeed frozen, but the wind was howling... like usual.  It was impossible to consider taking any photographs at Windy Point so we continued on to the elbow of the lake, across from Mt. Michener.  The wind was a little lighter here, but it was still gale force so photography with a 4x5 view camera was out of the question.  We wandered down to the lake shore and explored a little, taking a few digital snapshots.  There was some open water near shore at this location so we didn't try to walk out onto the ice.  I imagine that the usual ice bubbles were present, but we didn't see them this time.

Later in the afternoon we headed back over to the cottage.  Late in the day the other girls arrived with one more rabbit, two skinny pigs, and the dogs.  They said the drive out was slow going as the roads were in poor condition.  That surprised me a little as they were snow freeze and the drive was good for Anna and I when we came out 24 hours earlier.

We settled down for the evening, made a big batch of homemade pizza, and looked forward to relaxing for a few days.  I had a few odds jobs to look after, was wasn't planning on doing a lot of work on the this trip.  I had the bases for the kitchen cabinets to install, as well as some door trim.  Other than that I was pretty lazy and didn't do much of anything.....