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

Clear blue skies and bright sunshine was sure a nice sight this morning. Yesterday was downright depressing. Noone went near the pool until around 8:30 last night and then we figure they must have just given up on the rain stopping and decided to just swim anyway. At least the pool was warm, just the trip back to the camper would be a little chilly. Needless to say noone tried fishing yesterday. Sounds like our tenters were a little water logged. The one family spent a good portion of the day in the rec building. We had a not bad turnout for the ice cream social – 8 people. Considering it was a miserable day I would call that a success. The one nice thing about the ice cream social for me is that it doesn’t matter how many people show up. I don’t really have to do anything extra and nothing goes to waste because it is all stuff that will keep or get used. The craft didn’t go over at all, no one showed up. It looks like we will be phasing out craft time, but I still have a couple more days scheduled so we will see.

The long term forecast for Duckyfest is showing sunny and 26. I hope they are right, that sounds just about perfect.

Dennis went out to feed the fish last night and there was a momma deer standing in the canola watching him. We haven’t seen much sign of the deer lately but obviously they are still here. A couple years ago you would always see them crossing the road from one bush to the other. In the spring I did see some tracks near the fish pond, but this is the first sign we have seen for months. Now we will have to really keep watch for tracks around the pond.

Today is the last official day for swimming registration but I am sure I will get some late registrations. Including my kids we have 38 kids registered already. I have a couple people that I still have to touch base with to confirm the details but I know they are planning to register. So I am looking at being over 45 kids for the session. Make that 39, I just got another phone call. Next is the fun job of figuring out the schedule. I try to accommodate as many time requests as possible, but that can be difficult sometimes.

Overall it was kind of a depressing weekend, not very busy at all. Between no shows, cancels, changes in bookings it just wasn’t a very busy weekend. We still had about 10 sites at various times during the weekend, some were here already and left on Saturday, some stayed only one night etc. Considering it was a 30 degree day in July on Sat it was pretty slow. This rain today is certainly not going to help this weekends bookings.

We are doing bit of a movie marathon in the rec building this morning. We are watching Scooby Doo 2 right now and might as well put another one on after this because it is not a great morning to be outside.

The Easter egg hunt went over pretty well. I think that they were all found, but considering we hid 15 dozen there could still be some hiding that we have forgotten about. The craft wasn’t very popular though. We had my two kids, two other girls and one big kid at heart. Easter will become another annual Ducky Event. We even had some teenagers go around and try to find the eggs. They didn’t pick them up, but just marked on the map where they were. We didn’t put an offical age limit, but we did limit the number of eggs they could find until Sunday morning. Sunday some kids were coming in with 20 or so eggs and some adults too.

We officially named our ducks last night. We decided on Molly, Zack and Cody. Not necessarily the most traditional animal names, but we are not the most traditional campground. As you may have guessed they were mostly named by two girlies with my final approval.  Molly is easy to distinguish as she is the little one. Zack and Cody are pretty hard to tell apart right now, we just use the names generically for either duck. they have grown so much in the last few week or so. You could literally see a difference from one day to the next.

Well I think that I have finalized the schedule for the July long weekend. We just added a band on Saturday night. We had one last year and I kind of held off because it is not really a long weekend with the holiday on Tuesday. We finally connected with a guy we know that books bands and he had this one available in our budget. They are a two piece band that plays mainly older rock I believe. They are called Scenic Root.  Hopefully everyone enjoys them. So that means our garage sale is Sat morning, the inflatable bouncer is Sat afternoon, the band is Sat night, Birthday cake is Sun afternoon and fireworks are Sun evening. I still only have one electrical/water site left. For some reason the people that have called don’t want that site. It is one of the ones beside the pool and backing on to the playground. I am assuming it is the location that is holding them back unfortunately. I personally would like the location. Being close to the pool and playground would work perfectly for me with the girls, but I know it all depends on your situation. I did have one of the most popular sites open up with a cancellation this morning. I have already emailed someone that was looking yesterday and I don’t imagine it will take long for me to get rid of it.

I am training a new employee this afternoon. Hopefully the last one I have to train this summer since it is not one of my favorite jobs. I don’t know exactly what it is about the training part that I don’t like, maybe just that there is so much to go over and I am always worried I will forget something.

It didn’t seem to cool down too much last night. At least we didn’t get the thunderstorms that they were forecasting. They are calling for rain on Friday and otherwise hot the rest of the weekend. Maybe by tomorrow they will change it to no rain, that would be much better.

We were out feeding the ducks this morning and one of our little chipmunks decided he wanted some too. He came within about 10 feet of us and grabbed the bread and ran. They are sure getting tame and used to people.