New Blog

 Please go to : elephantlaked.blogspot.com   for the new blog.

This site : elephantlaker.blogspot.ca  has ended.

thank you.

jj

New Blog to be set up

 Hi gang,

Just a quick note. This blog site, elephantlaker.blogspot.ca is being shut down. New people (EU and DU) will assume this blog under a new name. It will be announced on this site when available.

If you want to view early blog information, the old blog, back to 2014, was: elephantlake.blogspot.com. It was  changed from .com to .ca by Goggle and necessitated a new name.

It was fun showing pictures of the road, especially in the winter. 

Thanks for all your comments.

jj

First snow

Perhaps a little early for snow. Hopefully all your waterlines are drained
 

Northern Lights

 

Hello to limestone!

 

Manoomin ( wild rice)

 

Road work

 

Free and available

 

Limestone

 

Seven loads of 5/8 limestone deposited for future washouts and road repair. Six washout storms this summer. More to come.

e-books

 

Parabolic Mirror

 

Terry

 

Heavy rain Aug. 9, 2024

 

Kayaks for sale

 

Ten years ago ...

 

Clarke Rd Washout

 

Free shelf

Michele has a free shelf for anyone interested. Contact her.

 

 

Feel your pain!

 6 views of blog yesterday.

Lost and found

53 views on blog yesterday. This is almost as good as Family Day views.

 

Ditches work

 

Second ditching

 7 views of blog yesterday.

Ditching by beaver pond at south end new road.

 

Ditching

27 views of blog yesterday.

 

Trailer plate

 33 views of blog yesterday. Very high number

A squirrel knocked out the power on Guest Trail this morning, front of Hannahson cottage. Hydro, our heros, restored the power.

Trailer licence plate found on Clarke Rd, south of Y. In hanging on 911 sign.

Swans are back

 

           17 views of the blog yesterday. Looks like lots of people are ready to commit to a summer.

                        It looks like the two swans from last year like our ELCA. Rock 'n roll.

Really?

 

Some mud on road

 

Open Water!

 

                                              Lake is entirely open. Ice disappeared last night.

News

 

Firewood Math

 

Pickle ball or tennis ready

 

Induction stove for sale

 

Open Water

 

The Winner is...

 

First truck to causeway

 

Road

 

Road/lake update

 

Hydro

Power has been restored after two days. The problem was a small tree that fell on the lines. It was not enough force to pull the wires down, but it caused several wires to get 'close enough', that  they 'shorted out'.

So there is only ONE hydro line that serves the ELCA. It runs from the Elephant Lake Lodge area, to the small island to the south, then the line continues to our main island, west side (JJ property). Then the lines run to the remainder of the cottages. 

Hydro has a green, ground level transformer at Boston's, with a large coil of cable that comes from the lake. It is not in operation and the hydro people say it is for use in the future. Apparently it gives the cables time to settle into the lake before hook up to transformer.  Probably a replacement. But, there has been a suggestion that the Nudist Colony at the north end of Clarke Rd may need power. Unknown at this time.

Half load restrictions on the roads now in effect. Early start this year.

 

water on ice

 A thin layer of water on the ice. Freezing weather may produce great skating on the lake.

Thin Ice

 Just off the shore, along the Benoir-Elephant Lake Wetlands, the ice is thin. Machine through the ice yesterday. 

Family Day at 911

 

Time Flies

 

10,000 pounds of wood

 So you want to burn wood to heat your cottage? Listen to this.

On Oct. 9, 2023 we started the first of our two wood stoves to heat our 2000 sq. ft. cottage. (Another 

1000 sq ft unheated.) We calculated the amount of wood, well seasoned, brought into the house. Each green container averaged 25 pounds. As of today, 400 boxes have been brought into the cottage. This makes 10,000 pounds of wood burned.  Only hardwood used. Daytime temperature in cottage averaged about 22 degrees. Down to usually 19 at night.

The weight of wet wood for 400 containers, would be 14,492 pounds. Wood dries to 69 % initial weight. 

The number of bush cords used will be obtained later. 

This has been an unusually warm winter. A normal season would require more wood.  It probably makes more sense to install a heat exchanger and only use wood when outdoor temperature reaches -18 and colder?

Break in

 Hi gang, There is a video on Facebook of two people breaking into a cottage on Baptiste Lake. They may have been identified.

You can contact Ed  for the Facebook connection 

Ed has agreed that you can contact him for the relay.

edurba56@gmail.com

Some far, our ELCA seems to be free of break-ins this winter. Rock 'n roll!

Thanks Ed.

Dog problem

A problem has developed having dogs walking in the snow. After not a long walk, the dog had problems with ice building up on the paws.  Maybe booties will solve the problem?

PH Drag

 Over 12" of powder snow on the road. But thanks to PH, it has been groomed and widened.

Parking lot 911

 

Healy Ice Skating Rink

 

A Lucky Day

 

  On July 19, 2006, at 9:30 pm a man banged on our cottage window and yelled, "fire on your island--we need buckets!" I looked down the hill from our cottage and saw flames about 4 feet high, easy to see in the dark.

   Luckily we had several buckets handy. These volunteers were carrying water from the lake and climbing about 40 feet up the incline to reach the fire.

   The fire was spotted from across the lake at Sandy Acres and two cottagers came across the lake in a boat to fight the fire--in the dark!

   Fortunately, the water line from our submersible pump in the lake was close to the fire. We cut the line, turned on the pump and dragged the end to the fire. Without this pump close by, it is doubtful that the fire could have been contained, since the fire was advancing up the hill and there was lots of combustible brush around. We believe that our cottage would have been burnt out during the night as we were sleeping.

   One of the volunteers pointed to a circular area that he thought was probably a  'hot spot' where someone was cooking and had a fire and was the start of the fire.

Road and Lake