Week four Ennadai Lake Lodge

Week Four at the Lake

sunrise Friday

Saturday night sunset

The week passed in a blur with work taking up all of our attentions during the days. Temperatures finally warmed up and as a result we had some mosquitoes, followed by a day or two of blackflies. The bites are not as irritating as southern bug-bites and increasingly we put our bug-suits and bug hats aside. The forest fires have returned. Air quality definitely suffers, but on the plus side, the bugs pack-up and go away. Because of the forest fires the sunrises and sunsets have been spectacular

Sailor Sue is an absolute marvel. She is adding skills to an already impressive resume. As a budding videographer she has been filming every takeoff and landing here. She has named one of the dehaviland ’Buffalo’ supply aircraft –“Snoopy” because of its little black Radome nose and is making a film that shows the improvements to the runway as they are done.

 She has also been doing daily photos of our own work for the record.

Meanwhile her very latest skill is insulating and jacketing the hot water pipes of the solar hot water system that we are building.

While Max and I have moved to work indoors fabricating manifolds, installing the pipes up through the floor,  she is outside – polishing up the final details.

Mike flew out on Snoopy for a much needed four day R & R , after the shipment of photovoltaic solar panels and the new wind turbine were unloaded.

When Mike flies back on Wednesday he will be accompanied by the electrician and his wife who will installing the new equipment.

Meanwhile Norm, the plumber, is under the gun to complete his installation of the new boiler and all its fittings so he can go back to Yellowknife on the plane. 

Al has been busy with the construction of the battery house assisted by Peter and Seeme.

Six days of work and a much needed day of relaxation when we catch up with our correspondence, write our blog and edit our photos.
Today we took a road trip on the four wheelers, Sue's very first foray into the forest trails on her own quad. It is quite the experience and for those of you who know of her legendary tractor driving skills can understand her trepidation in driving a four wheeler

moonrise