Well fall is definitely here and winter is just around the corner, 2 feet of snow in Buffalo and 6 inches in Burk’s falls, which has melted away. This Wednesday I was in North Bay for My best friend’s father’s funeral. Jeremy and I drove up Wednesday night with plans to spend the night at the cottage and be at the funeral Thursday morning. A quick call to Daryl confirmed that he’d meet us at the cottage after he got off work at 11pm Wednesday. When we arrived around midnight, Daryl had the main cottage heating up and he had a story to tell about the laneway being full of downed limbs that the wet snow had brought down earlier on the week. Although al the snow had melted there were definitely signs of water pooling. To the left of the winterized cabin there is a small swimming pool between the tools shed and the hump from the septic tank, we should look at digging a drainage ditch or leaving the area so spring and heavy rains don’t continue to pool in that area. The lower grassy flood area was wetter than normal and a small creek was running down frog lane towards the lake. I noticed that the eves troughs on the Beach house were pouring water over the edges in the middle and I see about cleaning them out and securing them with some screws so that in the spring we don’t have to replace them after the winter tears them off from the ice build up.
Before I left on Turkey weekend I installed a deadbolt on the garage, the keys are kept in the Main cabin kitchen drawer but we need to secure the door frame as there is a ½ inch space all around the door. We need to nail up trim inside and out, otherwise it wouldn’t take much more than a kick to take the whole door down. I’d also suggest that we put a curtain over the back window so potential thief’s don’t get to go window shopping before breaking in.
Power was definitely out sometime in the last week as the stove clock was flashing again.
Of particular note is the lake water levels, the lake has risen at least 8 inches if not more, that dock and fiberglass boat are both touching the water and the Pontoon boat had pulled up it’s steaks and was trying to float way. The next time we are up, probably next weekend we’ll leave a note in the boat for the owner to contact us so we can make arrangements for next season and storage for the winter.(if we want the boat there again) I wouldn’t mind having it moored further down the shoreline towards the property line (rocks permitting).
As far as heated winterized cabins, the cottage was quite toasty by the time we came in from the campfire in the rain, nice weather though, only went down to about 6 that night. The morning was as beautiful as always with glass like lake and mist rising. We vacated the cottages by 10am and left them as we found them.
Daryl and I still need to pour antifreeze down the drains and blow out the incoming water lines with my compressor.
I plan on either calling Ron Fincham (on Bills recommendation) or taking to the all season neighbor to see who they use to get the lane ploughed over the winter. I have no plans on billing the snow plowing to anyone who doesn’t use the cabin over the winter and it’s only fair to track the number of days each family uses the cabins in the winter and dividing up the cost to heat and plow based on those numbers.
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