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

Well we had to do one of the toughest parts of owning a campground tonight. It was time to test drive the hot tub and make sure it was suitable for paying customers. And, the good news is that it is just as relaxing as ever.

This weekend is supposed to be nicer weather wise than last, but yet we have only one campsite booked and last weekend we had 5. They still clain the sun will shine this afternoon and I hope so it is still quite chilly out now. At least the long term says it will keep warming up until the long weekend.

I didn’t know that we offered winter camping. As I sit here looking outside the ground is getting whiter and whiter. Snow in May – What’s up with that? I think it is time to band together to fight Mother Nature. We should pick a day and time- let’s say Thursday May 8 at 9:00- and everyone stop what they are doing to cross their fingers and wish upon a star for HOT HOT weather. Ok it is probably not going to help, but it certainly won’t hurt.

We were having a pretty good weekend considering the weather. We have 5 overnight sites come out to kick off the camping season. Two of them are actually sleeping in t t tents. I shiver just trying to type it. Quite a few of the seasonals were out yesterday to check on their campers after the winter and two stayed the night. We had one new seasonal bring their camper in yesterday and another head out. We rented our first garden plot yesterday as well.

Saturday morning was our welcome back coffee break. We had a couple campers come out for the freebies, but I was surprised that more didn’t come. Geri also brought some delicious birthday cake for Metro’s big day so we had that with our coffee as well. It was movie night in the evening and we watched Dan in Real Life. I missed the first half, but what I did see was pretty good.  Next week is movie night again but I’m not sure yet what the movie will be. I kind of wait till I see what type and age of crowd we have here before I make a final decision.

Needless to say things are pretty slow around the concession building this morning. Other than coming in to get water everyone seems to be hiding in their campers. We have one tent and one camper staying for another night and one other camper taking advantage of our pay as you go camping. (leaving the camper parked here until next weekend) The other tenting people just headed out the driveway, that couldn’t have been much fun packing up this morning.

Hopefully this nasty white stuff stops soon. Remember Thursday 9:00pm – tell all your friends.

I just read an article that says that Tuesday is the most productive day of the week. The reasoning is that on Monday we are still doing stuff from last week and on Wednesday we have already started adding things to our to-do list. So on Tuesdays we have the most time to complete tasks on our lists. So – how was your Tuesday? Was it productive? I would have to say our Tuesday was fairly productive. We spent the morning in Winnipeg picking up supplies; Dennis got the heat pumping into the pool!!! and this afternoon I got finished my flower bed project. I think that I would tend to agree about Tuesdays.

What a thing to see on the computer this morning – Winter Storm Watch. That’s just not right!!! It is the end of April and they say there is a snow storm coming. We have the water pumping in the pool, some people were going to come camping this weekend – how can it snow? Last year at this time the kids wore shorts to our girls birthday party and this year they need snow suits. Makes you wonder why we live in Manitoba. If what the weather network says is true it sounds like at least we are not going to be the hardest hit. Let’s all keep our fingers and toes crossed that we only get rain here. But, we all know how accurate the weather forecast (LOL). 

Our two Canada geese friends from last year have returned. They started out with game of mini golf then wandered over to the pond for a siesta. This is exactly the same as last year. We first spotted them out by the mini golf too. They hang out here for a while, then go someplace else and then all of a sudden you hear the honking and they are back. It is amazing to think that they travel as far as they do in the winter and come back to the same spot.

The computer gremlins must have stolen my post. Somehow it never made it the the site so here goes again. The Duck Derby last weekend went really well. Our new duck mascot wandered around poking his nose into things. There was a kids area set up inside the hall with games and a craft to keep the kiddies occupied – all duck themed of course. And of course the ducks went for their swim down the creek. All in all it was a good day with some volunteers putting in a lot of work to make it happen.