Rubber Ducky Resort & Campground – A family campground located in Warren, near Winnipeg, Manitoba

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I was just browsing through the Winnipeg Free Press online and this headline caught my eye

Infant, toddler left in car while parents shopped so I had to check out the story and was a little mistified that some one would do this in Winnipeg.

Denise Lywak was horrified Sunday afternoon when she saw a locked car in a Kenaston Boulevard mall with the engine running, a baby and toddler in the back seat, and no adult in sight.

“That’s horrifying. That’s abandonment,” said Lywak, who called police and stood guard over the car with another woman until police arrived 22 minutes later.

That was just after the 20-something parents came back to the car, surprised that anyone was making a fuss.

Winnipeg police said Sunday night that they issued the parents with a ticket under the Highway Traffic Act for leaving their engine running.

— with files from Meghan Hurley

Obviously we only see one side of the story, but I personally can’t imagine how you could justify this. Just my personal observation for the day.

I have a feeling this week will fly by for many of us. I know that some people are already off work and those that are still there probably aren’t doing a lot of work. Around here it is still just like anyother day with the exception that it is gingerbread house construction day. After that it is cleaning the rec building day. Yay fun!!

BTW for anyone who has tried the Santa gift catcher game my top score is 74000 or so and I made level 9. Anyone beat that?

Stay warm and cozy in this cold snap.

So I thought I would share a little game with everyone today.

http://www.iluvtoplay.com/free-games-for-your-website.html 

Try the Santa gift catcher game if you have some time to kill.

I have been getting a few inquiries about New Year’s Eve, and it is looking like we may have a decent turnout. I just hope that the weather cooperates. It has gone from cold cold to snowy and blowy. Why can’t we have an in between somewhere.

If I don’t mention the weather maybe it will just go away. I can always hope. I am mentally preparing myself right now to take Haylie out to the bus. On a nice day it is an enjoyable walk, days like today – not so much. It actually seemed warmer than it has been the last few days. I didn’t hit that ‘wall’ of cold when we walked out the door.

Now here’s an exciting picture…

New Shower

Yes it is a shower. We now have 3 showers for the hens and 3 for the drakes.

Wait it gets more exciting

The new floor

Yup it’s a bathroom floor. But, it looks all shiny and new right now. It’s even still got that new paint smell, not to be confused with the new car smell.

Next up is room #3. It has gotten a bit of a makeover as well.

The dolphin room

You would not believe how long it took me to paint that back wall.

Without the picture on the wall the room appeared very, very blue. The fishies seem to distract the eye and it looks pretty good (if I do say so myself). I do however have to change up the bedding though as I notice that it really stands out and doesn’t match.

They have been working on the cabin as well. It now has electricity and beds. I have not gone to take pictures and do not intend to until I can walk back there without getting hypothermia. Should be about March maybe. The cabin will be ready to rent on New Year’s if anyone is interested.

Friday afternoon was looking like a good day for a parade and then that Manitoba north wind started to howl. We were parked towards the north end of Main Street and it was very cold blowing across from Quarry Park. There seemed to be a good turnout of people regardless of the cold weather. There are lots of die hard parade fans around for sure. I’m not one of them as I was happy to be warm inside the truck.

Santa Parade Float

Santa Parade Float

It is hard to see in the pictures but you may notice my new car on the float. It will perfect for the quick trips to Stonewall. OK I may be stretching the truth a little – a lot. It is the race car that Rubber Ducky sponsor’s. It belongs to a friend of ours and he takes it to the Gimli drag races during the summer. So, if you have ever seen our truck pulling a purple race car and wondered what was going on, that is the story.

These are some pictures of some of the other floats that were around us.

First is Don’s Mechanical. They did a great decorating jobs with lots of lights, looked impressive.

Remax Float

It was a fun night as always. We also had the sound system set up with Rubber Ducky playing over and over and over. The girls got to see some familiar faces from school and the duck found some campground friends who came back for a visit after.

Sunday evening the Prime Meridian Trail held their annual meeting in our Rec Building. That included supper for about 30 people. Everything went well with fortunately not a huge amount of leftovers. They had a slide show presentation from one of the members of a trail near Headingley.  I missed a good portion of the details as I was in the kitchen, but I will try to find out more. I didn’t even realize there was another trail over there. There is access from near the Perimter and he mentioned that they do get lots of people coming out from Winnipeg to go for a walk.

 Our duck went astray and seems to have had a night on the town.

 http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wWyJBpKWC7JK8W1Rsrb4lw.

At least none of these pictures are mug shots so he must have been fairly well behaved.

I think many people will agree that it is hard to believe that December is here already. It would be nice if the rest of the winter went as fast as November seemed to. Don’t forget

We got all the Christmas decorations up in the rec building yesterday. So it is all ready for Christmas to come. Today has been a boring day of scrubbing the floor over there and setting up for the Northern Lites meeting tonight. I think of all the things that are entailed in my job description scrubbing that floor has got to be the thing that I dread most. But now it is done for a while anyway. Dennis is getting started on installing more showers in the washrooms. November has been a month of painting, cleaning, and reorganizing, and we are not done yet. There are still some more things on our to-do list.

Our first snowmobilers passed through yesterday afternoon. I am sure they are all getting anxious for a big dump of snow to happen so they can get the season started. Personally I am quite happy with this amount of snow. Businessally, it would be nice to get the snowmobilers coming through however.

And a little Christmas chuckle as I depart

Top 10 Things that Sound Dirty at Christmas, But Aren’t

10. Did you get any under the tree?
 9. I think your balls are hanging too low.
 8. Check out Rudolph’s Honker!
 7. Santa’s sack is really bulging.
 6. Lift up the skirt so I can get a clean breath.
 5. Did you get a piece of the fruitcake?
 4. I love licking the end till it’s really sharp and pointy.
 3. From here you can’t tell if they’re artificial or real.
 2. Can I interest you in some dark meat?
 1. To get it to stand up straight, try propping it against the wall.