Elephant Lake

 John has published again. Available at Amazon and any on-line ebook store.

 Many of us knew Roger Rivard. He may have done some construction work for you - he built our home here on Elephant Lake - and / or you bought some of his Maple Syrup. The best. Sadly Roger passed away last month after battling cancer.  For your info, his Celebration of Life will be on June 27th at the Faraday Community Centre, 31 Lower Faraday Rd, Bancroft Ontario. (the hall is at the back of the fire station). 2:00pm.

 I thought you might enjoy some of these pictures that I took of last evening's sky. 

 The road is in good shape. The heavy winter snow seemed to have insulated the ground so we did not experience the same "mud" problems as in past years. Here are some pictures of conditions now: Blackflies are now appearing. Flying but not biting yet. Expect they will very soon. Bring your bug spray...

 Road Update April 26 The road is in great shape! Mostly dry with a few soft spots. Trucks and 4 wheel drive have been coming and going.

 The snow is quickly retreating but the road still has some drying out to do before it's ready for summer cottage traffic. The latter part of the week is forecasting dry and warmer weather.

 April 20, 2026  A little ice in the bay but the lake is wide open this evening.

 

 Almost 1 month post ice storm, the snow is still deep in many areas and the road is mostly hard packed snow. The forecast for the upcoming week is calling for warmer temperatures and lots of rain. It may be mud season soon!

Peter, Kim and I spent close to 3 hours clearing the trees from the road. 23 of them! I slept well that night (from exhaustion) and I'm sure Peter and Kim did also.. Here are some pictures.. March 12th.   And then it started to snow.  The trip to 911 is beautiful.. March 14th. You can drive under this one leaning across the road. The forecast is for more snow this coming week. And rain. Rumor is that Spring is around the corner. Ed

We experienced a major ice storm today. Power has been out since about 3 pm and we are running our generators. Here are some pictures I took today during the ice storm. I drove from our place to the top of Maple Hill - Terry Young's gates. It started to ice rain heavily so I did not venture out to 911 from the top of the hill. I will tomorrow and will post again. Many branches came down, but I did not see any trees on the road. I may tomorrow when I go to 911. The picture below is at John J's place where some larger branches came down. Luckily John had moved 2 snowmobiles from this spot earlier. Here is a view of the lake from our place. And a view of our place at the back. At 11 pm the temperature is registering almost 3 degrees and the wind has picked up. Ice from the branches is melting and dropping. For those that know our place with the wall of windows on the lake side, the ice from the branches hitting those windows sounds a bit scary... the dogs sure think so.