{"id":1968,"date":"2016-05-13T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/cottage-opening-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:30:56","slug":"cottage-opening-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/cottage-opening-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Opening 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opened the cottage a little early this year, the Thursday before the traditional May long weekend. I took a few days off and came down Wednesday evening. Part of the early opening was a group ride that was taking place in the Kenora area, billed as a “Spring Training Camp” which seemed like a lot of fun, and it would be nice to have the water running for a hot shower after the rides.  Plus, Gail & Gord are coming down on Friday and staying at the lake until they take possession of their new house in Saskatoon sometime in June. <\/p>\n

After last years pump problem where it wouldn’t prime, but in the end noting seemed to be wrong with it after I dragged it into town for servicing, I was a little apprehensive about this years startup. But, no problems! It started up just fine on the first attempt and after starting at about 6:30am I had the bulk of the cottage opening chores done by 8:30 and was sitting down with a cup of coffee and waiting for the hot water tank to do it’s thing.<\/p>\n

 Being pretty lazy and enjoying the quiet. After a trip to town to look for an Apple power adapter for the laptop (unsuccessful) and enjoying the first Chip Truck of the year, it was time for a nap. Life roles at a different pace at the lake, well, at least for me. <\/p>\n

I’m thinking there are not too many people around right now as Netflix ran fine all evening without buffering. Normally, on a summer weekend, the wireless bandwidth is getting sucked up by all the neighbours and the Internet slows to a crawl, making Netflix almost unwatchable. <\/p>\n

The weather is cool at 0\u00b0C and drizzling, in fact right now it’s snowing kind of hard . HArd to see in the photo, but it’s like a micro blizzard which I’m sure will disappear momentarily, right?<\/p>\n

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\nThe planned big group rides for the weekend have been cancelled because so many guys bailed because of the weather forecast. I guess I’m on my own. If there is a break in the weather I’ll take a spin over to Rushing River and if things really turn around perhaps a longer spin out to Minaki and back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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