Blackstrap Lake

This afternoon we (Norma, Claudia, Finn and Lily) visited Auntie Bev, Norma's sister in her beautiful lakefront home on Blackstrap Lake, about a half hour south of Saskatoon. We had a really nice visit and with temperatures up to 30C a lake was the right place to be. Poor Grandpa had to stay home. He's been busy all day fixing the brakes on his old car.

Ready for take-off!

The house seen from the lakefront

View from the beautiful deck. It is completely screened in (because of the moskitos), that's why the picture looks so funny.

Finn and Lily had a lot of fun playing on the dock. They both have colds so I didn't let them play in the water.

And naturally the pets (2 dogs and a cat) were not safe from Finn and Lily's loving attention!

And when the pets had had enough and walked away Finn and Lily took turns being the dog and "sleeping" in the crate.

"Mile, mile!", Lily told the dog. Poor doggie is deaf, but Finn obeyed and smiled.

And on our way home we saw this: A deer with her newborn twins, one of them lying down on the gravel road. They were so tiny! The mother was very nervous, both wanting to run and to stay with her babies.

She finally got them to follow her to the other side of the road, so we drove past them slowly.

And guess what? Finn said he wanted to shoot them! He wants to be a hunter like his Grandpa. The other day, when he learned that there was venison in the lasagna Norma made (from a deer Kurt shot last fall), he exclaimed "Finally I got to eat a deer, yay!"

Well, at least Lily still thinks bambis are cute. :)