In late March and early April I made a couple of trips out to Nordegg. Mostly the weather was pretty miserable. March went out like a lion and we had quite a bit of snow remaining on the ground, even though it had been totally bare a couple of weeks prior. It was not particularly warm, and we kept getting more dumps of snow.
From March 28th to 30th I went out to the cottage with my daughter Helena and three of her friends. They were all on Spring Break from High School. Evan, Kai and Max joined Helena... and me... for the weekend. I stayed in the main cottage for the most part, and left the kids over the in the guest cottage. It seemed they had fun, despite the crappy weather. I was fighting a bad cold and mostly just laid low, and didn't do much other than ride herd on the kids. I took them for a drive up to Abraham Lake, and also into town to get pie at the Miner's Cafe.
Then from April 3rd to 6th Margarit and I went back out. It was mild at first, but then got colder and we were faced with yet more snow. This was the Easter weekend, and Easter Sunday fell on Margarit's birthday this year. We had a couple of nice dinners together, got caught up on a few chores, and mostly just relaxed.
I set up a sump pump in our exterior sump, so that we can deal with all the meltwater when it finally warms up. When we get periods of heavy rain or a quick spring thaw we sometimes get a little water in our crawlspace and the sump pump helps us to avoid that.
I also mounted a TV on the wall in the guest cottage, and attempted to service one of our furnaces that has been problematic. I couldn't solve the problem and will have to get my mechanical contractor out at some point. Its not a huge issue as we have other heat sources and mostly heat with wood when we are out there.
I washed all the bedding from the weekend prior when Helena and her friends were out, and made up all the beds again. Then I turned my attention to a couple of trees out in the yard. There has been a lot of strong winds this spring and we had about five standing dead trees come down. None did any damage at they weren't close to any buildings. But a couple of them became hung up in adjacent trees so I cut these down. Later when it warms up I will have to finish the job and cut these all to stove length and split them.
While I was out in the yard I noticed some Elk tracks in the fresh snow. It turns out the Elk and the Deer have been coming around to gnaw the bark off of these recently downed trees. We see the deer all the time but the elk are rare visitors. Later I checked the footage on my security camera and it confirmed that it was indeed an elk.
Shortly after Margarit and I returned to the city there was even more snow in Nordegg. It seems the sump pump won't need to run for a little longer.
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