From sunny days to clouds and showers.

July has not started out very well with the weather. The upside is that with this type of weather it will limit the amount of people coming to the lake that don't live here.

Not much happening at Kyles Kottage. Tried smoking sockeye salmon on my Traeger for the first time and it was a success. Certainly more expensive buying salmon compared to catching it (of course you must ignore the cost of the boat and all the fixxins') like we used to. lol

Our First Nations people love the salmon belly, so thought we would try it.  Waaaay too fatty for us!

Quality control ... yes it tastes great!

For our anniversary July 2nd, we drove up to Nanaimo and had dinner with Kristi and Jason with takeout sushi. 43 years we have been married, hard to believe. Forgot to take any pictures. :)

Ray is busy making deck boxes for the dock now as the plastic ones seem to leak with heavy rain so no point keeping stuff in them. These (2 of) will be heavy enough to be lag bolted to the dock so we won't have to move them or worry about them in the winter. We will have to enlist some help though to get them down to the dock when finished.

Other than that, pretty quiet here this past week after Dianne and Steve left.

Freya can't decide which "lamb chop" to play with. lol

Dave, Leslie, Dave and Cheryl had a great meet up in Alberta at Dave and Cheryl's. They sent me this picture via messenger. Miss you guys.

I stole this one. lol

Sunday was a beautiful day on the lake. Our neighbours, Roy and June had all of their kids and grandchildren over for the day and wake boarding was on the menu ... apparently the first time for 

several years.

We even saw a shark. lol Love this little dogs life jacket.

The rest of the week was quiet. I did try another brisket on the Traeger ....

 Fifteen hours later....

It's amazing when you do all this work how tender and juicy it ends up being instead of dried out slathered in barbecue sauce when you order it out. Even though I put it on a 5:45 AM ... it was not done until 8:30 PM and had to rest an hour before sampling. Now that I know the Traeger works well all on it's own and don't have to monitor it, I will put the brisket on overnight instead. lol