and more deck. It was a productive weekend!

Finally the fridge saga has come to an end. At least we hope it has. The mobile RV repair guy ordered the part (the large control board) and installed it Friday night. Fixing an RV fridge is expensive - with parts, labour and travel it cost around $700. Yikes! It is nice to have a fridge in the trailer again.

We had a couple massive thunderstorms in the evenings but the days were nice. We heard lightning hit a tree close by and sent the pieces hurling in to the side of a trailer. Mother nature is powerful!

After the Seba Beach market on Saturday morning we decided to check out the Evansburg Market. It's small but we bought some delicious perogies. We stopped in at a cute coffee shop in Evansburg and I had a lavender Italian Soda.

If you have ever visited a rural community, you know this is the ashtray of choice...

The drink of the week was the Surfer on Acid - I am trying to use Jagermeister in cocktails. The review and recipe is here. 

Alberta, you are quite stunning when the sun decides to shine!

On Sunday morning after breakfast we re-did our decking. Last year we bought a couple pieces of Easideck from Canadian Tire. Since Charlotte is longer than Phoebe, we needed a bit more deck. For some reason the 2019 version of the deck comes in a different size but we made it work. Val came over to help us with the building and re-positioning. The Tails supervised. 

The re-positioned deck and the new piece are perfect. Cheers to relaxing on the deck in nature!

We were really excited for the July long weekend but as we got closer to the weekend, the weather forecast looked ominous. 

James had Friday off so we headed out to Shadybrook Friday morning. It was really quiet - we assume due to the rain. We arrived to some sizeable puddles in our site so we headed to the hardware store in Wabamun for some gravel. We would later learn that this was a futile exercise. 

Our friend Val spent most of the week out at her trailer relaxing so we popped over to her digs for an afternoon G&T. The skies opened and it started to rain and then hailed. None of us wanted to cook and Friday is fish & chip night at the Nine Iron so off we went. 

Most of the weekend we had rain and then some sun...and then a lot more rain. We visited the Seba Beach market on Saturday and I went back to the library for a proper library card. We also were thrilled to welcome our first guests to the new bird feeder. 

Saturday morning we had someone come out and look at the fridge. Just as we thought we need a new control board. The part will be ordered and replace it when it is in. That means we need to continue to use the bar fridge in the shed. The bar fridge is great to have but a bit of a pain in the rain to keep running outside to the fridge. 

The only nice day of the entire weekend was Sunday. We basically just enjoyed being outside. In the evenings we played cards and worked on my chianti bottle candle. My dollar store candles were not as "drippy" as I would have liked! I had to take it outside in the breeze the next morning to get some drip. 

Of course we enjoyed the drink of the week - The Spicy Spritz. The review and recipe is here. Spoiler alert - we all gave it five stars. 

The morning of July 1 we headed to the Senior's Centre for the pancake breakfast - always good! Then we toured the Senior's Centre. It is much bigger than I knew.

It started to pour - like REALLY pour -  as we headed back to Charlotte. We cuddled in and watched movies and skipped  the Entwistle parade. The Entwistle Canada Day Parade  has been our tradition and something we look forward to every year but the weather was just nuts. 

Not the long weekend we were hoping for but...there is always next year!