What happens at camp during a slow week?

When we have a small number of guests during the middle of the year, one of four things tend to happen...1) Get more projects done, 2)Play with the kids, 3)Go fishing or 4) Sleep.

As you can see from some of the following pictured we did just that.

The kids enjoying the cool water on a hot day. 

Josie loves to hang down on the dock with me while I am working.
Here she is sitting on her favorite rock writing in her journal.

Jeremiah helping Dad jig.

Josie caught her first whitefish the other night. She hooked it
 and reeled it in all by herself.
 

Jack hooked into his first ever lake trout. I do not think he was totally ready
for the kind of fight these fish can put up. Using his light action walleye rod
with 6 lb test, it took him over an hour to finally land the fish. It was a very
heavy 34 inch trout. Way to stick it out Jack!

Jillian also got into the fishing action. After boating a very nice whitefish,
she hooked into a laker of her own. Although it did not take an hour to land, it
was quite the circus to get the fish into the boat. The second she hooked up, she got tangled
in both my line and Josie's line. Then during that chaos Jeremiah fell down in the boat.
Jillian handed the rod to Josie to help Jeremiah, I worked on untangling the lines, and Josie
held on to the pole for dear life...

...After restoring order in the boat, Jillian took over again and was able
to land a nice 31 inch lager. This one also had a tag on it. 

Jeremiah enjoying the sunset with Mom.

A nice mess of whitefish

This was my biggest whitefish ever, 24 inches and wide!

While Mom went away with her girlfriends to Kenora for the day, the
kids and I decided it was time for some new steps for our cabin.
With 11 other cabins, 2 generators, 30 boats and motors, 4 floating docks,
and 5 acres of grass, it is not often that we have time time to update or repair
our own stuff. 

Of course you never want to leave your eyes off a curious 6 year old for to long!

My little helpers.

One more job to check off the bucket list!

And if the weather cooperates, I hope to finish repairing the far dock where most of the personal boats tie up to. I pull a section or two out at a time and float them to the main dock where I can strip them down to floats and beams. Then I rebuild the supporting structure and replace all of the decking.

Then I float the repaired section back into place. Once I get all 5 sections done(nearly 100 feet of dock), I have some work to do on the steps and electrical boxes.  This is project that is long over due.

In case you are wondering...I have to pull every nail out of each board in order to get down to a workable shell. Each section of floating dock is approx. 20 ft long, meaning - there is 35-40 deck boards - Each board has 8 nails - that's 320 nails per section - for a grand total of 1600 nails to complete this project. 

Before starting on the repair job.

One more section to go.