Greenwater report for June 4, 2001

Greenwater Report for June 4, 2001

Greenwater Provincial Park - June 4, 2001 - By: Gerald Crawford

Keith
Hendren
June 3rd, 2001: I was a day late getting my last report e-mailed to the papers. My computer broke down. Funny - When we visited our friends in Wisconsin, I helped clean up their computer so it would run better. It was just getting lean and mean when it crashed on us. When I left, they were faced with buying a new hard drive or a new computer. I thought I had done the same thing to ours, but I took it down to Keith Hendren at Kelvington and he got it up and running again. Instead of stumbling around in the dark, I think I will just take it to him about once a year to get rid of all the trash that seems to accumulate. The inside of the computer looked a lot like my workbench full of trash that should have been discarded years ago.

windy
spring
We have had everything in the weatherman's repertoire except snow last week, and there was a time or two it felt as if it might snow. We got a little rain very little, about two tenths of an inch, but welcome all the same. Lots of wind, of course. Is it my imagination or has this been an unusually windy spring?

Kim
Ginther
A friend of ours was buried on Wednesday Kim Ginther was killed in a potash mine accident which you have likely heard lots about. Kim married Karen Grimson, from Mozart but I really got to know him from going to Grimson's for harvest. Kim had a way of showing up, with a few days off, when there was work to be done and not enough people to do it. He could do anything on the farm, from chasing cows to driving semis. And it didn't matter what the job was, it was more fun when Kim was around! He will be sorely missed.

dock
Lloyd, Louise, Scott and Laura were out today, and we got our dock in place. While in the US, I bought the hardware for a system that would allow one to put out the dock and take it in in the fall without getting wet. It was partially true I only got wet up to my armpits. The water was surprisingly warm, though, and it wasn't at all uncomfortable. Of course, the dock had to be long enough to tether Lloyd's fishing boat, which means it extends halfway across the lake. When Doreen wants to talk to Irm, all she has to do is go out to the end of the dock and holler.

mosquito
We ate supper out on our deck tonight, and it was quite pleasant. We could see a squadron of dragon flies hard at work above us, but not a mosquito. Every once in awhile the swallows would take after a crow and things would get noisy for a bit. On our trip, it seemed everyone had a rough winter but us. In Winnipeg, they are expecting a major mosquito problem due to the excess moisture, and at Hudson, Wisconsin, mosquitoes were a nuisance which they say is very unusual. All the way South and back, we remarked on the large numbers of junipers and other ornamental evergreens that didn't make it through the winter, presumably because it was unusually cold. When we tell them we had an unusually mild winter, they get a very dubious look on their faces.

Cabela's
store
Everyone told us that we must visit a Cabela's store while in the US. To those unfamiliar with the name, Cabela's is a chain of gigantic stores dedicated to sportsmen. They offer boats and motors, acres of fishing gear, outdoor clothing, hunting equipment, etc. In front of each store is a huge bronze sculpture; at Grand Forks, it was of two moose; at Albertville, it was two whitetails in full flight. The sculptures are twenty or thirty feet tall. Inside the store, you will see the stuffed animals which served as the model for the sculptures, plus hundreds of other animals. Seems to me the Grand Forks store was mainly North American animals; at Albertville, it was mostly African. Incredibly life-like! We didn't buy much, but we sure enjoyed window shopping and taking pictures. (By the way, I asked if they minded me taking photos and was told quite cheerfully to take all I wanted. Quite refreshing after my experience in a Saskatoon grocery store, where they were going to throw me out for taking pictures of vegetables!) You won't likely save any money shopping at Cabela's, but you will find things that you didn't even know existed!

Gerald B. Crawford
Box 100, Chelan, SK
S0E 0N0
(306) 278-3423
Check out my Webpage:

Greenwater Report for June 4, 2001

Greenwater Provincial Park - June 4, 2001 - By: Gerald Crawford

Keith Hendren	June 3rd, 2001: I was a day late getting my last report e-mailed to the papers. My computer broke down. Funny - When we visited our friends in Wisconsin, I helped clean up their computer so it would run better. It was just getting lean and mean when it crashed on us. When I left, they were faced with buying a new hard drive or a new computer. I thought I had done the same thing to ours, but I took it down to Keith Hendren at Kelvington and he got it up and running again. Instead of stumbling around in the dark, I think I will just take it to him about once a year to get rid of all the trash that seems to accumulate. The inside of the computer looked a lot like my workbench full of trash that should have been discarded years ago.

windy spring	We have had everything in the weatherman's repertoire except snow last week, and there was a time or two it felt as if it might snow. We got a little rain very little, about two tenths of an inch, but welcome all the same. Lots of wind, of course. Is it my imagination or has this been an unusually windy spring?

Kim Ginther	A friend of ours was buried on Wednesday Kim Ginther was killed in a potash mine accident which you have likely heard lots about. Kim married Karen Grimson, from Mozart but I really got to know him from going to Grimson's for harvest. Kim had a way of showing up, with a few days off, when there was work to be done and not enough people to do it. He could do anything on the farm, from chasing cows to driving semis. And it didn't matter what the job was, it was more fun when Kim was around! He will be sorely missed.

dock	Lloyd, Louise, Scott and Laura were out today, and we got our dock in place. While in the US, I bought the hardware for a system that would allow one to put out the dock and take it in in the fall without getting wet. It was partially true I only got wet up to my armpits. The water was surprisingly warm, though, and it wasn't at all uncomfortable. Of course, the dock had to be long enough to tether Lloyd's fishing boat, which means it extends halfway across the lake. When Doreen wants to talk to Irm, all she has to do is go out to the end of the dock and holler.

mosquito	We ate supper out on our deck tonight, and it was quite pleasant. We could see a squadron of dragon flies hard at work above us, but not a mosquito. Every once in awhile the swallows would take after a crow and things would get noisy for a bit. On our trip, it seemed everyone had a rough winter but us. In Winnipeg, they are expecting a major mosquito problem due to the excess moisture, and at Hudson, Wisconsin, mosquitoes were a nuisance which they say is very unusual. All the way South and back, we remarked on the large numbers of junipers and other ornamental evergreens that didn't make it through the winter, presumably because it was unusually cold. When we tell them we had an unusually mild winter, they get a very dubious look on their faces.



Cabela's store	Everyone told us that we must visit a Cabela's store while in the US. To those unfamiliar with the name, Cabela's is a chain of gigantic stores dedicated to sportsmen. They offer boats and motors, acres of fishing gear, outdoor clothing, hunting equipment, etc. In front of each store is a huge bronze sculpture; at Grand Forks, it was of two moose; at Albertville, it was two whitetails in full flight. The sculptures are twenty or thirty feet tall. Inside the store, you will see the stuffed animals which served as the model for the sculptures, plus hundreds of other animals. Seems to me the Grand Forks store was mainly North American animals; at Albertville, it was mostly African. Incredibly life-like! We didn't buy much, but we sure enjoyed window shopping and taking pictures. (By the way, I asked if they minded me taking photos and was told quite cheerfully to take all I wanted. Quite refreshing after my experience in a Saskatoon grocery store, where they were going to throw me out for taking pictures of vegetables!) You won't likely save any money shopping at Cabela's, but you will find things that you didn't even know existed!

		Gerald B. Crawford Box 100, Chelan, SK S0E 0N0 (306) 278-3423 Check out my Webpage: