Are you ready?

Spring is arriving in the North, I can not wait to be back in the air and showing people a good time. The sound of the Otter has to be my favorite!

The Wind-up!

Yesterday we had the wind up on the lake. It was a good time but the kids ended up playing hockey on their boots and walking 1.5 miles out to Gull island and back. A good time was had by all.

The Wind-up on the Lake

Tomorrow we are having our 3rd annual windup on the lake. It was looking like we were not able to do it this year but the warm weather melting all the snow and then going down to minus 20 celcius for a week we had a window of opportunity. But today and tomorrow it is starting to melt again. The kids and I skated on it today and it was pretty soft and getting slushy on top, a few bruises just from the wipeouts! Canadians will skate on anything. The kids may end up just playing on their boots tomorrow but we will have a good time, bonfire, food and drinks.



We skated right where we started fishing in the fall and there was an old northern head sitting there. It made a good puck!

Findlay Lake Video

Here are a couple of videos from some of our guests.

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Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day everyone, have a drink and be Irish. I know I will be pretending to be Irish today, this is one of my favorite holidays.

I have been working with some of our old Amik video lately and here is one of the clips. I think the fishing has gotten better since then.....what do you think?

The Provincial Championship

My oldest daughter played in the bantam girls provincial B championship this weekend. It was her 5th tournament and yet to come home with a medal.....this year they had an awesome chance to be the best. The tournament was held in a small town called Carman, the same town I played in the Manitoba Winter Games 19 years ago when I was a bantam! My team ended up winning a bronze medal after losing the semi-final game in overtime. I was optimistic that her team would be in the gold medal game here this weekend.

They started the tournament with a 3-2 victory over the Neepawa Natives on Friday in the first round robin game. Then there were lots of things going on for the girls around town.


Hockey is a great sport and these are the times they will remember for ever. I know I still do. The girls are always having a good time!


Friday night there was a banquet and a hypnotist. Taina laughed for 2 days after it was over. Girls from every team took part and performed awesome! Here they are showing off their muscles.


After winning their other round robin game 4-0 they finished 3rd out of 10 teams. They then had to play a quarter final game to advance to the semi final Sunday morning. Again the girls won, although it was 0-0 after 2 periods they came out in the third and out scored Morden 5-1. The 2nd place Portage Terriers were their opponent Sunday morning at 9 am. An awesome game that headed for OT after we tied it at 1 with less than 2 minutes remaining! But, the Terriers prevailed early on overtime. Disappointing but now they played for the bronze.

The girls were flying against The Pas Huskies and jumped out to a 2-0 lead right away, both goals scored were assisted by my daughter Taina and scored by her friend Lannea. The Pas was a tough opponent and it was the roughest girls game I have ever seen. Right up my alley. Scuffles occuring after many whistles and lots of great chances at both ends! We took a penalty with 2:30 left and The Pas capitalized to tie the game at 3! Overtime here we go again, 2 in the same day! Very stressful even for a spectator. The outcome this time was a much happier one as we scored to win the Bronze medal! Finally Taina had won a Provincial medal. I was so proud of her and her team they worked so hard and deserved the win.

The seasons are changing!

The winds have been blowing alot here in Manitoba lately. I think that signifies some change is occuring. Spring is finally on its way. We are still a ways off from seeing this sight but I can't wait!!! This is the gap heading out of the bay at Cherrington Lake looking north. Thanks to Larry G. for the photo.


We are heading to play an exhibition game in Gimli on monday with a very short bench. 8 skaters and a goalie, there will be no complaints about not enough icetime.:)