Tid Bits

A little time of relaxing and fellowshipping on Thurs. & Fri. kept me away from blogging.

Our dear brother & sister in Christ, Oscar & Shaun, asked us to visit them at the cabin where they are vacationing with another sister, Joanne & her son David. (Joanne's Husband had taken the older two sons camping to the Manitoba desert.) The cabin is at Gimli, MB about an hour's drive from our place. It is on the west side of Lake Winnipeg.

Gimili was an Islandic settlement originally. There are many permanent residents living there as well as a large influx of summer residents in cabins and weekly holidayers. the town is situated right on the lake shore. The cabin Oscar & Shaun rent is near the beach with a beautiful view of the lake and only a very short walk to actually get to the water.

Since it was a little cooler while we were there and O.,S.,J., & D. are not real water babies no one bothered to go for a swim either day. We did enjoy walking along the beach path (it is concrete or gravel most of the way) both days. Yesterday morning I had an early walk alone because no one else was up. Interestingly I had the opportunity of observing some cute little otters at play or "hunting" in a rocky spot on the lake shore. They either didn't notice that they had company or were not timid at all. After looking up information about them here at home I concluded that they were likely young animals because of their size. Of course when it would be nice to take pictures I didn't have the camera along.

Most of the time we visited our friends was spent in fellowshipping and eating. Helmut had some games to play on paper that any of us could participate in but were particularly for David's benefit.

Joey, a Shiatsu puppy, belonging to O. & S. and our old Beagle, Abby were also our companions for this visit and of course needed exercise and attention. Joey is just in the process of training but is very cute and active. Abby, developed more trouble with her hind legs and part of the time, especially later in the day needed help to stand, she needed to be carried down to the yard as there were way to many steps from the deck to the grass.

A fun time was had by all.