A Weekend Away

It's hard to describe how invigorating it can be to get away from it all to a beautiful isolated cabin on a lake, even if you spend most of your time there happily plugging away at one of the many tasks that need to be done around the place. Needless to say we had a great trip away and came back feeling very refreshed.

Stuff that we ended up doing included fixing the smashed end of the ramp down to the dock (a victim of some big waves a while ago when the ramp hadn't been raised), pressure washing the Maxwell's deck to within an inch of its life, gardening, attaching a new cable to hold the dock out from shore (the previous cable also a victim of big wave action). And last but not least the digging of the new biffy hole [Can-Aus translation: dunny hole]. Not the easiest of work, but very rewarding when you finally get it finished. Although it's a fine line to tread because the deeper you dig the harder it gets but also the longer the new biffy will last.


The new site...


Ken halfway there...


In over his head...


The way it was when I left...

Of course all of these photos show not me working on the hole, because of course I was taking the photos. No other accusations of slacking or working for the council will be entered into and the judge's decision is final.

When not working, we got a chance to take in the surroundings, have a few quiet beers and just relax, which is pretty hard to take when the afternoons all pretty much look like this:

The boat in the afternoon...

And when the weekend is finally over and you're on your way home you have to drive through Jasper National Park which is of a fairly unbeautiful and non-majestic nature (well not really):

Roadside pool...