Back to Pickerel April 2007
I went up to Pickerel River for the second time on April 23/07 and took Allison's dog Wellie with me. On April 24th we went for a walk out back and saw a very large deer not to far from the cottage. On April 26th we went out and saw a mother bear with 3 cubs on the west side of the ravine about a half mile out back.
I repositioned the water intake for the pump in advance of getting the new cat walk for the dock when we would have had to do that anyway. Lyman came over for lunch and helped me do it. After getting the pipes repositioned we set up the pump and found 2 burst pipes and one bad connection that happened over the winter. We never blew out the pipes as good as we should have. We got 2 of the pipes fixed but the one break directly under the kitchen I tried to fix but could not get all the water out of the system for proper soldering, so I will have to repair that next time.
We had already been up for a week around the 12th of April when the ice was still in and when I was there I met a guy with an aluminum boat for sale, it was a 16ft boat with a 5 ft beam, but a tree had fallen on one side and there was a big dent in it. I bought the boat and would have to fix the dent. This time I took the gunwale of the boat to fix it and will bang out the dent next time up and replace the gunwale.
The guy at the Marina boosted the prices up to $500.00 per year from around $400.00 last year, which is a substantial increase but did build all new slips for the boats. What can you do, when you are a captured cottager.
When we bought the land in 1961 there was a small Park at the highway with launching and parking facilities but they were torn up when the new bridge was put in and the dock was sold off, so now we have to pay a toll to go to the cottage. I had already wrote the Ministry about this but nothing has come of it yet, I guess I will have to do it again.
I repositioned the water intake for the pump in advance of getting the new cat walk for the dock when we would have had to do that anyway. Lyman came over for lunch and helped me do it. After getting the pipes repositioned we set up the pump and found 2 burst pipes and one bad connection that happened over the winter. We never blew out the pipes as good as we should have. We got 2 of the pipes fixed but the one break directly under the kitchen I tried to fix but could not get all the water out of the system for proper soldering, so I will have to repair that next time.
We had already been up for a week around the 12th of April when the ice was still in and when I was there I met a guy with an aluminum boat for sale, it was a 16ft boat with a 5 ft beam, but a tree had fallen on one side and there was a big dent in it. I bought the boat and would have to fix the dent. This time I took the gunwale of the boat to fix it and will bang out the dent next time up and replace the gunwale.
The guy at the Marina boosted the prices up to $500.00 per year from around $400.00 last year, which is a substantial increase but did build all new slips for the boats. What can you do, when you are a captured cottager.
When we bought the land in 1961 there was a small Park at the highway with launching and parking facilities but they were torn up when the new bridge was put in and the dock was sold off, so now we have to pay a toll to go to the cottage. I had already wrote the Ministry about this but nothing has come of it yet, I guess I will have to do it again.
posted by Allan at 5:10 AM
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