Mid August Signs

The summer here is the shortest season of the year. In the spring, when the birds come back from their winter in the south, there is a flurry of activity. The trees have leaved out in a bright green colour and the bird begin their matting by building nest.

Now in mid August we notice than there isn't as many birds singing, the trees have stopped growing and many have had their leaves thinned by bugs and winds.

I first noticed the dry ground cracks when I was a kid growing up in the central part of Regina. The dry dirt dust on the surface was perfect for making roads with a flattened hand. Some times the ground cracks were big enough to slip a flat hand into. These cracks became the canons that had to be avoided or bridges had to be built to cross them.

Without the rain the grass has slowed it's growth and the bare ground is cracking.


On our walk today we noticed the mallard ducks have lost their bright colours of spring, so it hard to tell the difference between male and female.

Another sign that summer is coming to an end is the sunrise happens at a latter time. We can now catch it at a decent time of day.

I'll end by saying that we enjoy watching the changes and the signs that are all around us.

Our RV is parked on our lot here in Buena Vista. It's a great way to be close the nature.

So remember to "Discover It and Live It .

RM  

       

Atton's Lake Visit

Over the last week we have be wifiless so our blogging has been quite spur-attic. Today we are parked in a Regional Park at Wynard, Sk. 

Atton's Lake is where Lorraine spent many summers when she was a child. Her brother and sister have cabins in the park, so we set up in front of the Fairly cabin. 

 

When we were not sitting in the lake on lawn chairs we drove to Cut Knife on highway 40. This was another of Lorraine's memories. We visited the museum at Cut Knife, but that was the day it was closed.  

Like many small towns in Saskatchewan, Cut Knife boosts the largest tomahawk. Lorraine quickly grab a hold of it ran with it.  

From the back roads of Saskatchewan
Lorrand RVers
"Discover It and Live It"

Well hello to those who are following us on this blog. We have started our journey on the road to freedom and are now camped at Buffalo Lookout, east of Regina.    

Yesterday we parked in Douglas Pack in the typical Saskatchewan summer heat to show friends our wellness home on wheels. A thank you to everyone that braved the temperatures to say good luck to us.        

Last night the TT was 31C inside and the AC brought the temp down to a comfortable 23C for sleeping.

This morning will be another hot day while we travel south to the Weyburn area where we will spent two night and then move on to Saskatoon and farther north.

UpDate

Well, what a month this has been.

I have not had time to do any updates on the travel trailer as I have been working on on the additions and changes we are making to it.

Lorraine is hard at work at the new desk

The desk is in place now with all the components in and working.








The kitchen and bath shelving has been added and the repairs to the sliding closet mirrors in the bedroom look great.

        The topper for the Dodge is being installed next week, just in time for our picnic show in Regina on the 17th of this month.

I'll try to give more information soon.

RM

Coming Home

The finished desk and shelf unit 

We have been visiting our Open Range Journeyer at the Regina Beach Campground since we purchased it from Minard's in Weyburn, Sk.  Over the past month and a half we have been visiting once a day to do improvements  and set up the systems on board.

The VCR was added to the entertainment center.
We discovered that the fire place is also the  source of the woofer for the 5.1 surround sound. 

This week I will be finishing a trail through the wood and up the hill at the back of your residence where we have a parking pad.

The parking pad at the back of the hill. That's not our camper. It belongs to the neighbours .

So hopefully our new travel trailer will be "Coming Home" where we will do the final loading of stuff that we will take with us on our tour of North America.

Two Projects

I have completed two of the many projects that are needing to be done before OR Trailer is road ready. We had the hide-a-bed removed before the trailer was shipped to us. We also asked not to install carpet.

The first project was the office desk. It looks very simple and fits the slide space perfectly.

The Slide without a hide-a-bed. 

The office desk fits nicely in the space
and the chair stows under the  key board tray. 

The second project was the bed deck in the master bedroom. We will be using our Nikken mattress so we had the Open Range Travel Trailer delivered without a mattress on the queen size deck in the bedroom. The bed deck was unfinished plywood so I added a lip around it and painted it to match the Big Red Dodge Ram with Duellies. I also put a map on it so we can find our way home if we get lost on our travels. I still have a few of this maps left if you would like to buy one.

Slide in and deck removed.

Finished deck with a map of Southern Saskatchewan.
Under the head of the bed are two storage access point.
We are calling it a "Two Holer" his and hers.

The foot of the bed lifts to more storage.

The lift arms a very strong, hopefully with the mattress they will be easier to close.

Next project is a shelf and a drawer for the desk top.

Until next time remember "Discover It and Live It" 
   

New Rig Is Home

We picked up the Open Range today at Minards Leisure World in Weyburn, SK today. It is now home safe and sound at Regina Beach. The Ram did it's part and seem very happy to be working again for a change.

Stop for lunch at Yellow Grass, SK.  

 The TT made it's way into Canada from Indiana with only one mishap. A flat tire on the left front. You can see the spare with the solid rim. The replacement rim and tire will be here in a couple of weeks.

So remember to Discover It and Live It.