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

who turned out the lights? They were calling for a cooler day today, but it was still supposed to be sunny. They haven’t changed the forecast for the weekend yet though.

It looks like I finally have my email back, at least I hope they are all coming through. I also found out that right now you can’t access our website unless you make sure you have the www in the address. This is creating some problems because it seems most of us (me included) use the shortcut and don’t bother with the w’s.  Fortunately this didn’t happen in July or August but January would be have been better.  I still have no idea when the proper version of the site will be back up.

Just look at how much the trees have grown

Site 43

Ok maybe we had some trees moved in. They started moving some in yesterday and will be continuing today. There will be around 11 or so new trees to help improve the north area of the campground. It definately seems to make the sites look a little less barren, especially along the west side where the other trees hadn’t filled out too much.

In amongst the trees in the picture we have plans to build a camping cabin. We are undecided if we will start this fall or not until the spring, but it will be ready for next season anyway. It will be a rustic one room cabin with a front deck area. Inside will be a double bed, bunk beds, table and most likely a bar fridge. There will be electricity but not running water (there will be a tap outside). Outside there will be a firepit and picnic table the same as any other campsite. These type of cabins are popular at the KOA’s in the US and I am thinking that it should be popular here. If they go over well we will look at putting more into our next phase.

Tonight we will be going to the Interlake Tourism Association’s celebration of stars evening. Fortunately it is in Teulon this year since in the past we have had to go to Fisher Branch and Riverton to attend a couple events. The evening is an awards dinner and we are nominated for some type of award. We will find out which one later tonight I guess.

My second assistant manager officially started Kindergarten today; Dennis is in Winnipeg doing IPC stuff; and I am all alone. It is soooo very quiet and I am getting sooooo much done without anyone else here. I have spent the morning catching up on paperwork that I haven’t had time to do lately.

Finally it looks like the sun is going to come out and I see quite a bit of blue sky on the way.

Did I fall asleep and wake up in October because it certainly seems like it outside. Yesterday afternoon we were checking the weather and it was going to be sunny and 17 today. So how come this morning it was only going to be 13 with showers?? Why do I even bother looking at the weather forecast.

This past weekend the weather was definately not very cooperative for camping. Of course it didn’t stop the kids from making good use of the pool. They didn’t seem to care if it was a little cool and rainy. We didn’t much for overnight campers – only about 3 sites. We still have our 4 pay as you go campers and a few seasonals were out so at least there were bodies around. Our seasonal appreciation went pretty good. We had tons of food as per usual – fish, french fries, pork on a bun, hot dogs, garden fresh tomatoes and dessert. We opened up the supper to non seasonal campers and so ended up with just over 30 people (and luckily not a whole lot of leftovers).  The rain showed up just as we were finishing so, we had to move the food tables inside for the last half hour or so.

We also had a good turnout for Bingo in the evening. What else can you do on a rainy cool evening but play a little ducky bingo?? We learned that apparently truckers are easily confused by bingo. But the kids enjoyed themselves and got right into things. The wins were split up pretty good amongst everyone this time. The slushee coupons were flying around on Sunday morning.

All in all it was a very busy last big weekend of the season. The pig roast was a huge success with approx 125 adults and 25 kids. Saturday night ended up being a karaoke night. One of the campers has his own system and offered to set it up and run it. Sunday afternoon the rec building was full of Bomber fans and I think I even saw a rider fan. I had to correct a huge oversight on my part as I had originally scheduled Bingo at 4pm, then was reminded that the game was on. So Bingo was changed to 6pm instead. We had about 10 people or so come out for that. Just a nice number for us to learn what we were doing. I learned a couple things and will be more organized for next weekend. One of our seasonals cleaned up by winning all but one game. Of course we had to point out that she had 3 times as many cards as anyone else. Their luck spilled over to the BBQ draw as their site was the lucky winner. (The dog actually won).

No surprise that on a cold, rainy Monday everyone cleared out pretty early. As they were all heading out however we had 3 pay as you go campers pull in. We even have one pay as you go tenter.

I set up a new calendar on the events page of our website. Hopefully this will be a little easier to read than how it was before.

Hard to believe that school starts tomorrow. It seems like the summer weather just started then it was done already. With any luck this yucky weather will just be a blip and there will be more summer to come.