winter re-cap

Hello. I haven't blogged in a while, but wanted to give a little recap on some of
what I can remember that happened this winter.


The septic tank under the dining hall froze again, leaving the toliets unusable.
Kinda handy no rental groups were scheduled for winter.Our last rental was in November.



Also a result of the extremely low temperatures was some flooding in the basement bathroom of McPhederon Lodge around Christmas. I actually heard the running water from upstairs. The damage was minimal which was good.


The tractor stopped working (the hydraulics) for a while and Andy was able to
remedy that situation just in time to plow snow.The hydraulics may have just gotten too cold during a cold snap.


In Feburary we attended the BC Camp Conference at Stillwood camp and Andy took a lock keying course. This enabled him to key the locks on the cabins so they all open with one key.


Here are some of the other winter-time projects Andy has been doing:

-repairing and refinishing picnic tables and benches

-collecting new bailers

-had a heater for games room in to Kelowna for repair

-collected supplies for testing our water at camp

-peeled a huge log to replace the one from the entrance to camp

-collected and peeled new logs for bucking broncho area

-replenished shop inventory

-tractor maintenance

-built some new floats for the dock

-indoor paint prep and painting as well


Work has been done on the guest cabin as well...I don't know the exact names of everything, but Andy put up some plastic on the walls and then Craig (one of Carol's brothers) installed the drywall.


Camp is trying to sell the 2 vans we have here, but has had no success thus far.