Friday 13 September 2024
Thursday 29 August 2024
Tuesday 27 August 2024
Limestone
Thursday 22 August 2024
Monday 12 August 2024
Sunday 11 August 2024
Friday 9 August 2024
Wednesday 7 August 2024
Saturday 20 July 2024
Monday 17 June 2024
Monday 20 May 2024
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Sunday 5 May 2024
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Monday 29 April 2024
Sunday 28 April 2024
Tuesday 23 April 2024
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.
Monday 8 April 2024
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.
Thursday 4 April 2024
Tuesday 2 April 2024
Sunday 31 March 2024
Friday 29 March 2024
Thursday 28 March 2024
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Thursday 21 March 2024
Sunday 17 March 2024
Friday 15 March 2024
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Monday 4 March 2024
Friday 1 March 2024
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.
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Friday 23 February 2024
Thin Ice
Just off the shore, along the Benoir-Elephant Lake Wetlands, the ice is thin. Machine through the ice yesterday.
Monday 19 February 2024
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Thursday 8 February 2024
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?
Wednesday 24 January 2024
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.
Wednesday 17 January 2024
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?
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Wednesday 10 January 2024
Friday 5 January 2024
Thursday 4 January 2024
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.