Winter has arrived and we are hooked up!!!

All systems are go at Pelican Pointe.  The plumber came in last week and hooked up the water.  We were able to take the port -a- potty back to the place we rented it from for the summer.  We were quite glad to see the blue and yellow vestibule leave the lot.  But it did serve a purpose for the workers and us on occasion this summer.  But good riddance.  The new toilets in the house are really cool low water consumption and it is amazing how something as mundane as indoor running water can lift your spirits.

Herman taking the thing out of Pelican Pointe.

 Sask. Energy trenched in the line on November 10 and set the meter on November 15th.  Non too soon either as the wind chill is hovering near - 25C or lower this past week.  When we went out on Saturday 

we walked into a nice warm house.  Yippee.   Too bad I had to get all whiny and nasty and go the political route to get the gas line in.  But at least it is done.

Tried out the spa tub.  Put too much smelly bubbly stuff in there and almost had a bubble disaster.  Will know better for next. time.  It is lovely to have a warm home with hot and cold running water.  The simple pleasures of life.  I look around at this amazing place and am so thankful.

 

This is only the last part of November and we have a ton of snow already.  The Subaru can plough through almost anything.  

This is Dexter our Dog on the the snowed in road leading away from our place.  The snow was pretty deep already but the Subaru still made it through.  We are going to buy a snowblower this week.  We are the last place on the road before the lake and we don't think the snow plow will make it out very much, if at all.  So we will have to make our own road.

This shot was taken from the pointe.  Looks a little different in winter than summer.  But the place is still beautiful.  We woke up to see coyotes running on the lake and the last of the geese and ducks flying off for the winter.  

This is a great time of year at Pelican Pointe.  There is total silence at our place except for the birds that are migrating.  The lake has just started to freeze and the ice is too thin to be on.  So no motor boats, no jet skis.  The ice is too thin for snowmobiles and ice fisher people.  We have no tv, no internet and don't play the radio or music very often.  So silence.  Nice.............

Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and Waiting........

This picture was taken from the veranda on November 6, 2010.  

We still do not have the gas line installed from Sask. Energy.  I applied in August....the house was set on Sept. 4th....Sask. Energy said they would be out the week of September 27th.....nobody showed up....Sask. Energy said they would be out the week of Oct. 28th.....nobody showed up......Sask. Energy said they would be out on Tuesday Nov. 9th.....don't know if anyone showed up.  No one from Sask. Energy will give me an answer or return my calls.  This is more than ridiculous.

The plumber would like to get in and get the heat going for us.  The kitchen stove, water heater, clothes dryer and furnace all rely on natural gas.  So there is no heat, no water, no stove at the beautiful new house.  Just some furniture and appliances sitting waiting to be used.  The plumber who is doing the installation for us is going to the beach today (in a snowstorm) to put in some industrial strength heaters to try and keep the house from getting too cold.  Did I mention that this is more than ridiculous.  Too bad Sask. Energy has a monopoly on gas supply and installations.  I would be looking for another company with some understanding of customer service if there was a choice in Saskatchewan.
Another person got a home delivered after ours and he has energy already.  Just do no understand this.

Since nothing much is happening at the house until Sask. Energy gets the gas line in I'll post some pictures of the cute grandkids and a picture I took last weekend from the veranda.  Once we have the appliances connected (when we get gas) I'll get out there and do some updated pictures of the laundry room, en suite, kitchen, etc.  We will also move "the beast" out and start unloading the loft furniture once we have central heat and can stay out there for longer periods.  Right now it is too cold without the gas supply to the furnace.

Oh yeah - the spa tub - not useable because the water heater runs on natural gas.  The water in the cistern is really, really too cold for showering or bathing.  We are not that hardy that we want to do daily polar bear dips in our own home.

Spiderman Brody on Halloween.

Regan the butterfly on Halloween.

Spiderman Brody and Thomas the Train Logan.

 Logan and Regan.  

 We have replaced the homemade ramp with some temporary stairs.  We will have a deck built on this side connecting the two back doors next spring.