Rain is finally here!

Nothing too exciting to report this week ...

Monday was bright and sunny and ended up 19C by 4pm. Another lovely day to sit outside in the afternoon enjoying the view. We made the most of it before the rain starts Tuesday night.

Tuesday it was off to Costco for me to pick up new deck boxes for the dock and our sundeck. Our other ones were damaged with the storm December 20th. Once back home Ray and I sat outside for an hour under cloudy skies, but it was 19C. Not too shabby. While out there we saw a huge otter on our neighbours dock scratching his back. He obviously has eaten well over the winter. This picture does not show it well as I only had my phone. lol The black lump! Glad he does not visit our dock as they leave lovely smelly reminders ... our neighbours dock is covered in poop. This picture is really expanded so it appears grainy. lol

Wednesday overnight the rains began ... finally. We sure need it. Rained all morning but lightened up for the afternoon with the odd thundershower. Quite warm out.

Thursday turned out to be another spectacular day. Warm at 14C and sunny.

Freya enjoying a "sunbeam", just not right now.

Both Ray and I did chores in the morning and then after lunch spent the afternoon in the back yard with a campfire. Freya loves it when we go outside. Ray managed to take down the skeleton of the gazebo on the dock in preparation for our new one.  I finished cleaning and setting up the motorhome, a week long project. We practically forgot what our "home on wheels" looks like as this is the first time it has been "set up like home" for 18 months. Looks pretty inviting ... it will be nice to get back on the road next fall but first up a 2 week trip up island in June.

Ahhhh Kastle, home sweet home.

I managed to get a little gardening done, dumping out flower pots, in preparation for the landscapers. Ray also hung my new herb planters on our arbor in the front. This will be our "garden room", a warm place to sit when the wind is up on the lakeside of the house. This is a space right behind our motorhome.

We try to take advantage of sunny afternoons being outside whenever we can. A habit from 6 years on the road. The heather is blooming. We may finish these gardens with different colours of heather with different blooming times. This will keep the gardens low maintenance and Ray wants the foliage to grow down over the rocks. We shall see what the landscaper garden specialist suggests next week.

Thursday overnight the rains began as predicted. By 7am Friday morning the first storm had mostly passed and we were down to a misty drizzle. The next storm should be here late morning. Keep on raining ... need the lake level to rise.

The rain did begin in earnest at noon ... very loud on our roof. lol

Tonight we went out for Chinese Food with Andrew and Mona, our painters, at the Cow Cafe, here in town. They serve it buffet style every Friday night. It was awesome  to catch up with them again. They had invited their friends, Cliff and Sue Gibson with their 2 adult kids. Cliff's company built our dock last September.  Once back home at 7 pm the rain began again teaming down overnight.

Saturday morning, still drizzling. Supposed to be really windy today on the coastal sections ... probably we will miss most of it being inland. Ray is working on the "bat cave". We tried to put some spray foam into the corners at the top of the front arch but it looked terrible.  So Ray scraped it off so it could be painted when we get the whole house painted this summer. As Ray climbed the ladder he saw a bat fly off the foam an land on ground by the ladder ! Yikes. We have a line with a pest control company that may help us get rid of this problem. Fingers crossed.

The black dots around him is bat poop!

The "Bat Cave" is complete after many weeks of Ray doing only a little bit every day. Ray finished putting in the removable screens. Take that bats!

Just poured all day so we know the lake level will be coming up.

Sunday the rain stopped and the clouds at lightened up significantly. By noon it had started up again and rained off and on afternoon and finally stopped around 4pm. This will be another quiet day at Kyle's Kottage, with a few chores and relaxing in between going outside between downpours.

That was our week.