Staying home this weekend

We were going to head up to the cabin this weekend but a combination of cold Saskatchewan weather (it’s June and parts of Saskatchewan are expecting snow!), Oliver getting a cold, and an overall fatigue conspired to keep us at home this weekend.

We decided to make good use of our time in the city.  I work at the Salvation Army Community Centre and we get in hundreds of things donated every day.  We give away 99.99% of what we get in at no charge and when we get too many things in, we have a massive garage sale for the community.  We generally sell things for under $1 and last time we had a garage sale, we sold boxes of stuff for a quarter and toss in a package of cookies as well. 

We are at the point of having an overwhelming amount of stuff again and while I was struggling to navigate our loading dock, I saw an odd cupboard.  It needed some work and had a 70s finish on it.  It is the size of a microwave cart but built far before microwaves were around.  It is free standing so I am not sure what it was designed for.  Regardless of what is was designed for, it worked well for our purposes and so I asked the manager in charge how much she wanted for it, she gave me a price and I bought it and took it home. 

It is going to be perfect height and size to put the microwave on at the cabin with a lot of storage space for the coffee maker and some food underneath.  The only problem is that the color and finish is all wrong.  We went to the local Saskatoon Co-op, found some mochachino colored paint, and have been refinishing it for most of the day.  Sanding, priming, and then painting. It will need another coat of paint and I’ll post some photos later this week but I think it will be a nice addition to the cabin and give us a lot more space to cook with.

Another thing we went looking for is a pump for those 20 litre water containers that you put in a water crock or a water cooler.  It would make it a lot easier to have drinking water up at the cabin as well as home.  While the water at Arlington Beach has improved in taste drastically since I was a kid (it really was undrinkable), I still prefer the taste of Culligan Water and I can even taste normal ice cubes in my bottled water.  Liquidation Supercentre has some coming in today so we will stop by on Monday and see if we can find one.  I think eventually we will want a water crock but until we finish up some things around the cabin, we will use a simpler solution.

We also managed to go out and find some new handles for the barbecue (the old ones melted off), some rather unfashionable water socks for myself.  Mark wanted a pair and then we saw some ones for Oliver.  All three of us will look like geeks together this summer.  I have an excuse as I have neuropathy and walking on sand is extremely painful.  Mark says he likes them as it keeps the algae from the lake from getting into his feet.  Wendy somehow managed to escape this fashion travesty but there is still time to make her look as bad as us.

I am not sure when we will get up to the cabin as a family again but the plan is to spend Father’s Day up there.