Saturday, July 31, 2010

We woke to clear blue sky this morning. It’s a lovely area out here...very quiet and peaceful. Steve was wide awake when I got up saying he’d been awake since 4:15...hmmm...what’s up with that? After turning on the coffee maker and TV, I decided to plug in the little space heater because it was a bit chilly. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear Steve say not to plug it in...pop....oops...no power. After a few minutes of trying to figure out exactly what had happened, Steve realized that we had blown a breaker in the house. Okay, all fixed....whew! But then a couple of minutes later, it happened again...the space heater wasn’t plugged in...oh...the hot water heater was on. Okay, unplug the coffee maker...no space heater on...and reset the breaker. All is good.
After showering, we walked up to Ken and Charlene’s. Ken had breakfast cooking and poured us each a cup of coffee as we arrived. We also received a warm welcoming from Little Bear, Rocky and Katie. Charlene was a little slower today—she had been feeling so much better yesterday that she over-did it a bit and was feeling the affects today.

Ken and Charlene’s house is very unique. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Ken is a very good carpenter with a great imagination.  This is a picture of the bathroom basin--I love the faucet.  The vanity is actually an antique chest of drawers with mirror...very cool...

The kitchen...













The "good room" (aka...the room not used very much)...



Later in the morning, Ken drove us into Cochrane to do laundry and a little shopping. They had offered their laundry facilities to us but I decided it was easier to go to a Laundromat and do all the loads at once and just get it over with. We had planned on going into Calgary in the afternoon but decided that we might put that off until tomorrow. We spent the rest of the day visiting—Charlene’s nephew and kids from Winnipeg had dropped in for a visit as well.

Ken took us for a drive around the lakes (there are 2...thus Cochrane Lakes) to show us the new development that is being built. It is a rather exclusive development with huge houses on beautifully manicured lots. When finished, the development will completely encircle the lakes...what a change for the original single road with homes that currently goes along one side of the relatively small lake. Cochrane and the surrounding area is growing like crazy with new subdivisions going up. A lot of people are moving out this way from Calgary...the commute to work is reasonable. It takes Ken and Charlene about 40 minutes to get to work in the city.

We called it a night at about 9 p.m. and headed back to the trailer. Oh my goodness, we are getting old! What happened to the late night partying we used to do? Last time we were out here visiting, Steve and Ken stayed up drinking until 4 a.m.! Well...there’s still one more night left before we leave....

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