Saturday, August 11/2012

I am up early and it is rather dreary outside this morning.  It looks like rain and there is a chill in the bus today.
We are supposed to be taking the little trucks out and doing a few of the trails down in the block but unless the weather improves, I am not sure if we will be going any where today.  Ariane is quite nervous on the trails and she will really be worried if we go in the rain!!
Dave and Shirley were to be going with us today as well as Shirley has a day off today.  We usually plan on doing something together whenever we have the same days off.
With today's trip up in the air, I decide to start painting the walls of the man cave.  I get busy with the job at hand and am quite surprised at just how easy the color is going on the walls.  I was done all the walls in three hours and when John came in to "inspect" said that the roof should be done as well so an hour later, that too was complete.
Dave and Shirley had finally got back from their trip to Spiritwood and the gun show and were wondering about today's ride.  The sun had broken through the clouds (we did have a bit of a rain shower earlier) and was shining bright and warm.
We decided to take a trip to the far end of Otter lake (where Dave had got stuck on his quad, piled up his winch and ended up walking the 8 k back to his truck).
It was a wonderful trail and threw a variety of obstacles in our way - mud, roots and closed in trail.  I think Larry must have got some forest pin stripping on his little tracker!!
We made it to the lake and saw the bottomless hole that Dave got stuck in then sat at the little camping spot and had a beverage.  We were deep in the forest and did not expect to see anyone out there today.  It wasn't long before we heard the sounds of incoming quads and were soon joined by Arnie and Shelly Larocque, Don and Betty Fletcher and Morgan and Dane and their little puppy Dodge.  Hogan was quite intrigued by Dodge and wasn't quite sure what to do with this tiny little creature.   Arnie and Shelly did not stop to chat (no surprise there) but the rest of the group did and that was nice.  They then carried on to catch up with the lead quad and we sat for a bit longer before we too started back.
We soon made it back to Leoville and John started a campfire.  Dave and Shirley stayed for a bit then headed home for supper.  Larry and Ariane ate next and as usual, John and I brought up the tail end.  I was tired and lay down before my supper was ready!!  I was more tired than hungry and could have very easily just slept.  I was the only one today that actually did any work (four hours of painting can make a girl tired!!)  John and Larry burned the midnight oil around the fire and eventually they called it quits around 2 in the morning. Apparently there was a meteor shower and northern lights happening in the night skies tonight.

Headed out

Heading down to Otter Lake

A little mud

Even Hogan was in 4x4 mode!

Trail narrows up

Otter Lake

Our destination for the day

Beverage

Heading back out

Relaxing around the fire after a great day!