They’ve had heavy rains in SK for the last month and there’s standing water and mud everywhere. And guess what likes standing water. Skeeters! They were thick at last night’s campground and they are here, too. The first campground we checked in the Saskatoon area was closed due to high water and 2/3 of the sites in our current campground are flooded also. We pulled in at 5 PM and got one of the last dry sites. Skeeters or no skeeters, I’m cranking up the barbie in a few minutes.
Tomorrow will be our 4th travel day with no break so we’re stopping for 3 nights in Edmonton. The pickup is due for a oil and filter change plus tire rotation, and we plan to visit the huge Edmonton mall. We’d like to play some golf, too, but the forecast is for rain.
Along the way will get to see another World’s Largest. Pysanka! I’m confident that everyone knows a pysanka when they see one, so will not explain further. In the off chance that you’re not acquainted with pysankas, you’ll just have to wait until the next post. Patience is a virtue, they say – although I was out of town when they passed out that particular virtue. May have missed a few others, too.
Saskatchewan is one flat sumbitch, full of huge grain farms with dozens of metal storage facilities. They grow a lot of canola here, same as northern ND, beautiful fields of yellow.
I bet you're glad you're not tent camping! Can't imagine flooded fields underneath my tent with mosquitoes in the grass!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this intel will make you feel better or worse, but the mosquitoes are bad here this year, too. Everyone was talking about it yesterday, the postmen, the people working in their yards...I killed one in MY VERY OWN KITCHEN and one in the car! Last year we didn't even see one. I guess they all dried out last year and were rehydrated during our wet spring.
Is you new anti-mosquito bonnet from Minnesota working? Be sure to take pictures of that, close-ups!
It's the 4th of July weekend here and nothing is going on. No weddings, no barbecues in Columbia City. I'm bored stiff. I might have to go over to see the world's largest ocean.